Life cycle of stratocumulus clouds over 1 year at the coast of the Atacama Desert

Schween, Jan H.; del Rio, Camilo; García, Juan-Luis; Osses, Pablo; Westbrook, Sarah; Löhnert, Ulrich

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12241-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12241-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12241-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 18

Research article

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20 Sep 2022

Research article |

| 20 Sep 2022

Life cycle of stratocumulus clouds over 1 year at the coast of the Atacama Desert

Jan H. Schween, Camilo del Rio, Juan-Luis García, Pablo Osses, Sarah Westbrook, and Ulrich Löhnert

Data sets

Meteorological Data March 2018-March 2019 from Iquique J. H. Schween and U. Loehnert https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.45

Wind profiles March 2018-March 2019 from remote sensing at Iquique J. H. Schween and U. Loehnert https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.53

Temperature profiles March 2018-March 2019 from remote sensing at Iquique J. H. Schween, U. Loehnert, and S. Westbrook https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.46

Liquid water path (LWP TH80) March 2018-March 2019 at Iquique J. H. Schween, U. Loehnert, and S. Westbrook https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.49

Liquid water path (LWP TH85) March 2018-March 2019 at Iquique J. H. Schween, U. Loehnert, and S. Westbrook https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.50

Liquid water path (LWP TH90) March 2018-March 2019 at Iquique J. H. Schween, U. Loehnert, and S. Westbrook https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.51

Liquid water path (LWP TH95) March 2018-March 2019 at Iquique J. H. Schween, U. Loehnert, and S. Westbrook https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.52

Integrated water vapor (IWV TH85) March 2018-March 2019 at Iquique J. H. Schween, U. Loehnert, and S. Westbrook https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.43

Boundary layer classification from remote sensing at Iquique, March 2018-March 2019 J. H. Schween, T. Marke, and U. Loehnert https://doi.org/10.5880/CRC1211DB.54

Cloud profiling product: Classification; 2018-03-26 to 2019-01-23; from Iquique CLU https://hdl.handle.net/21.12132/2.e224164deb7c40c5

Short summary

Marine stratocumulus clouds of the eastern Pacific play an essential role in the Earth's climate. These clouds form the major source of water to parts of the extreme dry Atacama Desert at the northern coast of Chile. For the first time these clouds are observed over a whole year with three remote sensing instruments. It is shown how these clouds are influenced by the land–sea wind system and the distribution of ocean temperatures.