584 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE AND APPLIED METEOROLOGY VOLUME 23 Physical Characteristics of Arctic Stratus Clouds
Observations of the physical properties of Arctic stratus clouds (AX) over the Beaufort Sea area were made by the NCAR Electra aircraft during June 1980. The cloud morphology and microstructure observed during these experiments are described here. Arctic stratus clouds were formed under various mete...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.385.6702 2023-05-15T14:50:53+02:00 584 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE AND APPLIED METEOROLOGY VOLUME 23 Physical Characteristics of Arctic Stratus Clouds Si-chee Tsay Kolf Jayaweera The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1983 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.385.6702 en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.385.6702 Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. text 1983 ftciteseerx 2016-09-18T00:32:12Z Observations of the physical properties of Arctic stratus clouds (AX) over the Beaufort Sea area were made by the NCAR Electra aircraft during June 1980. The cloud morphology and microstructure observed during these experiments are described here. Arctic stratus clouds were formed under various meteorological conditions, but not when the axis of the Beaufort Sea ridge was zonal and the airflow into the region was continental. The mean drop diameter in clouds observed under all conditions remained near 10 pm, while the mean liquid water content (LWC) was characteristic of the air mass forming the clouds and essentially determined by the mean drop concentration. Clouds showed considerable horizontal homogeneity but significant vertical changes occurred within them. The vertical profiles of LWC show that the values generally increased with height, as a result of an increase in droplet size rather than concentration. The drop size distribution near the base was monomodal, characteristic of condensation on a nucleus spectrum, but changed to a bimodal distribution near the top of the cloud. 1. Text Arctic Beaufort Sea Unknown Arctic |
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Observations of the physical properties of Arctic stratus clouds (AX) over the Beaufort Sea area were made by the NCAR Electra aircraft during June 1980. The cloud morphology and microstructure observed during these experiments are described here. Arctic stratus clouds were formed under various meteorological conditions, but not when the axis of the Beaufort Sea ridge was zonal and the airflow into the region was continental. The mean drop diameter in clouds observed under all conditions remained near 10 pm, while the mean liquid water content (LWC) was characteristic of the air mass forming the clouds and essentially determined by the mean drop concentration. Clouds showed considerable horizontal homogeneity but significant vertical changes occurred within them. The vertical profiles of LWC show that the values generally increased with height, as a result of an increase in droplet size rather than concentration. The drop size distribution near the base was monomodal, characteristic of condensation on a nucleus spectrum, but changed to a bimodal distribution near the top of the cloud. 1. |
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584 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE AND APPLIED METEOROLOGY VOLUME 23 Physical Characteristics of Arctic Stratus Clouds |
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