Contrasting the co-variability of daytime cloud and precipitation over tropical land and ocean

Jin, Daeho; Oreopoulos, Lazaros; Lee, Dongmin; Cho, Nayeong; Tan, Jackson

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3065-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3065-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3065-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 4

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02 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 02 Mar 2018

Contrasting the co-variability of daytime cloud and precipitation over tropical land and ocean

Daeho Jin, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Dongmin Lee, Nayeong Cho, and Jackson Tan

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RC1: 'Review of acp-2017-612', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Sep 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer#1', daeho jin, 21 Dec 2017
RC2: 'Review of "Contrasting the Co-variability of Daytime Cloud and Precipitation over Tropical Land and Ocean" by Jin et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer#2', daeho jin, 21 Dec 2017

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ED: Publish as is (14 Jan 2018) by Thomas Wagner

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To what degree can precipitation be predicted given information about clouds? Or, conversely, with precipitation information at hand, can we provide good guesses about the clouds responsible? To answer these questions, we performed joint analysis of rainfall and cloud data, which are significantly decoupled. We find that only for the deepest and thickest clouds does cloud amount relate strongly with the intensity of rainfall, and that the details are different over oceans and land.