Articles | Volume 21, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9629-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9629-2021
Research article
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28 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 28 Jun 2021

Identifying meteorological influences on marine low-cloud mesoscale morphology using satellite classifications

Johannes Mohrmann, Robert Wood, Tianle Yuan, Hua Song, Ryan Eastman, and Lazaros Oreopoulos

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Observations of marine-boundary-layer conditions are composited by cloud type, based on a new classification dataset. It is found that two cloud types, representing regions of clustered and suppressed low-level clouds, occur in very similar large-scale conditions but are distinguished from each other by considering low-level circulation and surface wind fields, validating prior results from modeling.
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