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Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7329-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7329-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
Research article
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25 May 2018
Research article |  | 25 May 2018

The impact of atmospheric stability and wind shear on vertical cloud overlap over the Tibetan Plateau

Jiming Li, Qiaoyi Lv, Bida Jian, Min Zhang, Chuanfeng Zhao, Qiang Fu, Kazuaki Kawamoto, and Hua Zhang

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The accurate representation of cloud vertical overlap in atmospheric models is very important for predicting the total cloud cover and calculating the radiative budget. We propose a valid scheme for quantifying the degree of overlap over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The new scheme parameterizes decorrelation length scale L as a function of wind shear and atmospheric stability and improves the simulation of total cloud cover over TP when the separations between cloud layers are greater than 1 km.
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