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Tracking Shallow Convective Mixing and Its Influence on Low‐Level Clouds With Stable Water Isotopes in Vapor
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2022
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(5)
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
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Description:Low-cloud feedbacks contribute large uncertainties to climate projections and estimated climate sensitivity. A key physical process modulating low-cloud feedbacks is shallow convective mixing between the boundary layer and the free troposphere. However, there are challenges in acquiring observational constraints of shallow convective mixing with global coverage. To this end, we propose a novel approach to constraining convective mixing using stable water vapor isotope profiles from satellite retrievals. We demonstrate that the vertical gradient of water vapor δD between the boundary layer and free troposphere can be used to track shallow convective mixing. Analyzing isotopes in water vapor alongside low-cloud properties from satellite
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(5)
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ISSN:2169-897X;2169-8996;
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