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Research article
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25 Sep 2020
Research article |
| 25 Sep 2020
| 25 Sep 2020
Mid-level clouds are frequent above the southeast Atlantic stratocumulus clouds
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Paquita Zuidema
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of
Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Ian Chang
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Sharon P. Burton
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia 23681, USA
Brian Cairns
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
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Short summary
Over the southeast Atlantic, interactions between the low-level clouds and the overlying smoke aerosols have previously been highlighted, but no study has yet focused on the presence of the mid-level clouds that complicate the aerosol–cloud interactions. Here we show that these optically thin super-cooled mid-level clouds are relatively common, and they frequently occur at the top of the smoke layer between August and October with significant radiative impacts on the low-level clouds.
Over the southeast Atlantic, interactions between the low-level clouds and the overlying smoke...
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