On the transitions in marine boundary layer cloudiness
Satellite observations and meteorological reanalysis are used to examine the transition from unbroken sheets of stratocumulus to fields of scattered cumulus, and the processes controlling them, in four subtropical oceans. A Lagrangian analysis suggests that both the transition, defined as the tempor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2010-03-01
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Series: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
Online Access: | http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/2377/2010/acp-10-2377-2010.pdf |