Subsiding shells and the distribution of up- and downdraughts in warm cumulus clouds over land

Mallaun, Christian; Giez, Andreas; Mayr, Georg J.; Rotach, Mathias W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9769-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 15

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9769–9786, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9769-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9769–9786, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9769-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 15

Research article 02 Aug 2019

Research article | 02 Aug 2019

Subsiding shells and the distribution of up- and downdraughts in warm cumulus clouds over land

Christian Mallaun et al.

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RC1: 'Review: acp-2018-825', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Review on "Subsiding shells and vertical mass flux in warm cumulus clouds over land"', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Nov 2018
AC1: 'Reply to the major Reviewer Comments', Christian Mallaun, 28 Dec 2018

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Short summary

This study presents airborne measurements in shallow convection over land to investigate the dynamic properties of clouds focusing on possible narrow downdraughts in the surrounding of the clouds. A characteristic narrow downdraught region (subsiding shell) is found directly outside the cloud borders for the mean vertical wind distribution. The subsiding shell results from the distribution of the highly variable updraughts and downdraughts in the near vicinity of the cloud.