Cloud System Evolution In The Trades (Cset): Following Evolution of Boundary Layer Cloud Systems with the NSF-NCAR GV

Albrecht, B., V. Ghate, J.K.C. Mohrmann, R. Wood, C.F. Zuidema, C. Bretherton, C. Schwartz, E.W. Eloranta, D.S. Glienke, M. Sarkar, J. McGibbon, A.D. Nugent, R.A. Shaw, J. Fugal, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, L.L. Louis Lussier, J. Jensen, J. Vivekanandan, S. Ellis, and P. Tsai (2019), Cloud System Evolution In The Trades (Cset): Following Evolution of Boundary Layer Cloud Systems with the NSF-NCAR GV, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 100, 93-121, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0180.1.
Abstract

The evolution of the boundary layer aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and thermodynamic structures along trajectories within the North Pacific trade winds was investigated using the NSF–NCAR Gulfstream V.

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