The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Geerts, Bart, Giangrande, Scott E., McFarquhar, Greg M., Xue, Lulin, Abel, Steven J., Comstock, Jennifer M., Crewell, Susanne, DeMott, Paul J., Ebell, Kerstin, Field, Paul, Hill, Thomas C. 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, Ovchinnikov, 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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMS 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Bear Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3063497; https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0044.1

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...