The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks
One of the most intense air mass transformations on Earth happens when cold air flows from frozen surfaces to much warmer open water in cold-air outbreaks (CAOs), a process captured beautifully in satellite imagery. Despite the ubiquity of the CAO cloud regime over high-latitude oceans, we have a ra...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:56291 2024-09-15T17:51:55+00:00 The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks Geerts, Bart Giangrande, Scott E. McFarquhar, Greg M. Xue, Lulin Abel, Steven Comstock, Jenniver M. Crewell, Susanne DeMott, Paul J. Ebell, Kerstin Field, Paul Hill, Thomas J. Hunzinger, Alexis Jensen, Michael P. Johnson, Karen L. Juliano, Timothy W. Kollias, Pavlos Kosovic, Branko Lackner, Christian Luke, Ed Lüpkes, Christof Matthews, Alyssa A. Neggers, Roel Ovchninnikov, Mikhail Powers, Heath Shupe, Matthew D. Spengler, Thomas Swanson, Benjamin E. Tjernström, Michael Theisen, Adam K. Wales, Nathan A. Wang, Yonggang Wendisch, Manfred Wu, Peng 2022-05 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56291/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.f8801861-05a8-4143-bab4-ebae9e0ecf31 unknown AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC Geerts, B. , Giangrande, S. E. , McFarquhar, G. M. , Xue, L. , Abel, S. , Comstock, J. M. , Crewell, S. orcid:0000-0003-1251-5805 , DeMott, P. J. , Ebell, K. orcid:0000-0002-0042-4968 , Field, P. , Hill, T. J. , Hunzinger, A. , Jensen, M. P. , Johnson, K. L. , Juliano, T. W. , Kollias, P. , Kosovic, B. , Lackner, C. , Luke, E. , Lüpkes, C. orcid:0000-0001-6518-0717 , Matthews, A. A. , Neggers, R. , Ovchninnikov, M. , Powers, H. , Shupe, M. D. , Spengler, T. , Swanson, B. E. , Tjernström, M. , Theisen, A. K. , Wales, N. A. , Wang, Y. , Wendisch, M. and Wu, P. (2022) The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks , Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E1371 . doi:10.1175/bams-d-21-0044.1 <https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-21-0044.1> , hdl:10013/epic.f8801861-05a8-4143-bab4-ebae9e0ecf31 EPIC3Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC, E1371, ISSN: 0003-0007 Article isiRev 2022 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-21-0044.1 2024-06-24T04:28:46Z One of the most intense air mass transformations on Earth happens when cold air flows from frozen surfaces to much warmer open water in cold-air outbreaks (CAOs), a process captured beautifully in satellite imagery. Despite the ubiquity of the CAO cloud regime over high-latitude oceans, we have a rather poor understanding of its properties, its role in energy and water cycles, and its treatment in weather and climate models. The Cold-air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) was conducted to better understand this regime and its representation in models. COMBLE aimed to examine the relations between surface fluxes, boundary-layer structure, aerosol, cloud and precipitation properties, and mesoscale circulations in marine CAOs. Processes affecting these properties largely fall in a range of scales where boundary-layer processes, convection, and precipitation are tightly coupled, which makes accurate representation of the CAO cloud regime in numerical weather prediction and global climate models most challenging. COMBLE deployed an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Mobile Facility at a coastal site in northern Scandinavia (69°N), with additional instruments on Bear Island (75°N), from December 2019 to May 2020. CAO conditions were experienced 19% (21%) of the time at the main site (on Bear Island). A comprehensive suite of continuous in situ and remote sensing observations of atmospheric conditions, clouds, precipitation, and aerosol were collected. Because of the clouds’ well-defined origin, their shallow depth, and the broad range of observed temperature and aerosol concentrations, the COMBLE dataset provides a powerful modeling test bed for improving the representation of mixed-phase cloud processes in large-eddy simulations and large-scale models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bear Island Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103 5 E1371 E1389 |
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One of the most intense air mass transformations on Earth happens when cold air flows from frozen surfaces to much warmer open water in cold-air outbreaks (CAOs), a process captured beautifully in satellite imagery. Despite the ubiquity of the CAO cloud regime over high-latitude oceans, we have a rather poor understanding of its properties, its role in energy and water cycles, and its treatment in weather and climate models. The Cold-air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) was conducted to better understand this regime and its representation in models. COMBLE aimed to examine the relations between surface fluxes, boundary-layer structure, aerosol, cloud and precipitation properties, and mesoscale circulations in marine CAOs. Processes affecting these properties largely fall in a range of scales where boundary-layer processes, convection, and precipitation are tightly coupled, which makes accurate representation of the CAO cloud regime in numerical weather prediction and global climate models most challenging. COMBLE deployed an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Mobile Facility at a coastal site in northern Scandinavia (69°N), with additional instruments on Bear Island (75°N), from December 2019 to May 2020. CAO conditions were experienced 19% (21%) of the time at the main site (on Bear Island). A comprehensive suite of continuous in situ and remote sensing observations of atmospheric conditions, clouds, precipitation, and aerosol were collected. Because of the clouds’ well-defined origin, their shallow depth, and the broad range of observed temperature and aerosol concentrations, the COMBLE dataset provides a powerful modeling test bed for improving the representation of mixed-phase cloud processes in large-eddy simulations and large-scale models. |
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Geerts, Bart Giangrande, Scott E. McFarquhar, Greg M. Xue, Lulin Abel, Steven Comstock, Jenniver M. Crewell, Susanne DeMott, Paul J. Ebell, Kerstin Field, Paul Hill, Thomas J. Hunzinger, Alexis Jensen, Michael P. Johnson, Karen L. Juliano, Timothy W. Kollias, Pavlos Kosovic, Branko Lackner, Christian Luke, Ed Lüpkes, Christof Matthews, Alyssa A. Neggers, Roel Ovchninnikov, Mikhail Powers, Heath Shupe, Matthew D. Spengler, Thomas Swanson, Benjamin E. Tjernström, Michael Theisen, Adam K. Wales, Nathan A. Wang, Yonggang Wendisch, Manfred Wu, Peng |
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Geerts, Bart Giangrande, Scott E. McFarquhar, Greg M. Xue, Lulin Abel, Steven Comstock, Jenniver M. Crewell, Susanne DeMott, Paul J. Ebell, Kerstin Field, Paul Hill, Thomas J. Hunzinger, Alexis Jensen, Michael P. Johnson, Karen L. Juliano, Timothy W. Kollias, Pavlos Kosovic, Branko Lackner, Christian Luke, Ed Lüpkes, Christof Matthews, Alyssa A. Neggers, Roel Ovchninnikov, Mikhail Powers, Heath Shupe, Matthew D. Spengler, Thomas Swanson, Benjamin E. Tjernström, Michael Theisen, Adam K. Wales, Nathan A. Wang, Yonggang Wendisch, Manfred Wu, Peng The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks |
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The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks |
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The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks |
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The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks |
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Geerts, B. , Giangrande, S. E. , McFarquhar, G. M. , Xue, L. , Abel, S. , Comstock, J. M. , Crewell, S. orcid:0000-0003-1251-5805 , DeMott, P. J. , Ebell, K. orcid:0000-0002-0042-4968 , Field, P. , Hill, T. J. , Hunzinger, A. , Jensen, M. P. , Johnson, K. L. , Juliano, T. W. , Kollias, P. , Kosovic, B. , Lackner, C. , Luke, E. , Lüpkes, C. orcid:0000-0001-6518-0717 , Matthews, A. A. , Neggers, R. , Ovchninnikov, M. , Powers, H. , Shupe, M. D. , Spengler, T. , Swanson, B. E. , Tjernström, M. , Theisen, A. K. , Wales, N. A. , Wang, Y. , Wendisch, M. and Wu, P. (2022) The COMBLE campaign: a study of marine boundary-layer clouds in Arctic cold-air outbreaks , Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E1371 . doi:10.1175/bams-d-21-0044.1 <https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-21-0044.1> , hdl:10013/epic.f8801861-05a8-4143-bab4-ebae9e0ecf31 |
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