Comparison of simulated and observed horizontal inhomogeneities of optical thickness of Arctic stratus

• Main Authors: Schäfer, Michael, Loewe, Katharina, Ehrlich, André, Hoose, Corinna, Wendisch, Manfred
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Leipzig 2019
• Subjects: horizontal inhomogeneities; clouds; climate; horizontale Inhomogenitäten; Wolken; Klima; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/551; ddc:551; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Arktis*; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-741765; https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A74176; https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A74176/attachment/ATT-0/

Two-dimensional horizontal fields of cloud optical thickness derived from airborne measurements of solar spectral, reflected radiance are compared with semiidealized large eddy simulations (LESs) of Arctic stratus performed with the Consortium for Small-scale Modeling (COSMO) atmospheric model. The...