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Regime‐Specific Cloud Vertical Overlap Characteristics From Radar and Lidar Observations at the ARM Sites
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2023
Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(6)
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Description:Climate and numerical weather prediction models require assumptions to represent the vertical distribution of subgrid-scale clouds, which have radiative transfer implications. In this study, nearly 25 years of ground-based radar and lidar observations of vertical cloud profiles at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site are utilized to derive cloud vertical overlap characteristics from the Cloud Type (CLDTYPE) data product. The cloud vertical overlap characteristics are further separated by cloud regime by considering seven cloud types (i.e., low cloud, congestus, deep convection, altocumulus, altostratus, cirrostratus, and cirrus) as well as periods of shallow cumulus. The decorrelation length scale
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(6)
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ISSN:2169-897X;2169-8996;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC-ND
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