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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11413-2019
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11413-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
10 Sep 2019
Research article |
| 10 Sep 2019
| 10 Sep 2019
Observations and hypotheses related to low to middle free tropospheric aerosol, water vapor and altocumulus cloud layers within convective weather regimes: a SEAC4RS case study
Jeffrey S. Reid
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
US Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division Monterey, CA, USA
Derek J. Posselt
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Kathleen Kaku
General Dynamics Information Technology, Naval Research Laboratory,
Monterey, CA, USA
Robert A. Holz
Space Sciences Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Gao Chen
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
Edwin W. Eloranta
Space Sciences Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Ralph E. Kuehn
Space Sciences Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Sarah Woods
SPEC Inc. Boulder, CO, USA
Jianglong Zhang
University of North Dakota, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Bruce Anderson
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
T. Paul Bui
NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Glenn S. Diskin
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
Patrick Minnis
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
now at: Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
Michael J. Newchurch
Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
Simone Tanelli
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Charles R. Trepte
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
K. Lee Thornhill
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
Luke D. Ziemba
NASA Langley Research Center, Science Directorate, Hampton, VA, USA
Data sets
SEAC4RS NASA https://doi.org/10.5067/Aircraft/SEAC4RS/Aerosol-TraceGas-Cloud
Short summary
The scientific community often focuses on the vertical transport of pollutants by clouds for those with bases at the planetary boundary layer (such as typical fair-weather cumulus) and the outflow from thunderstorms at their tops. We demonstrate complex aerosol and cloud features formed in mid-level thunderstorm outflow. These layers have strong relationships to mid-level tropospheric clouds, an important but difficult to model or monitor cloud regime for climate studies.
The scientific community often focuses on the vertical transport of pollutants by clouds for...
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