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Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-2263-2020
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26 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 26 Feb 2020

Conceptual model of diurnal cycle of low-level stratiform clouds over southern West Africa

Fabienne Lohou, Norbert Kalthoff, Bianca Adler, Karmen Babić, Cheikh Dione, Marie Lothon, Xabier Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, and Maurin Zouzoua

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A conceptual model of the low-level stratiform clouds (LLSCs), which develop almost every night in southern West Africa, is built with the dataset acquired during the DACCIWA (Dynamics Aerosol Chemistry Cloud Interactions in West Africa) ground-based field experiment. Several processes occur during the four phases composing this diurnal cycle: the cooling of the air until saturation (stable and jet phases), LLSC and low-level jet interactions (stratus phase), and LLSC breakup (convective phase).
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