Maritime-Continental Contrasts in the Properties of Low-Level Clouds: A Case Study of the Summer of the 2003 Yamase, Japan, Cloud Event

Satellite data were used to investigate maritime-continental differences in the characteristics of the low-level cloud (the Yamase cloud) that covered northeast Japan during the summer of 2003. The features of the Yamase cloud were found to be almost the same as those of general stratus clouds but w...

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Main Authors: Nawo Eguchi, Tadahiro Hayasaka, Masahiro Sawada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/548091