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Relationships between deep convective clouds, cirrus clouds, and the tropical easterly jet over the Indian region observed with Aeolus spaceborne Doppler wind lidar
Zacharie Titus
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Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Marine Bonazzola
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Hélène Chepfer
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Artem Feofilov
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
Marie-Laure Roussel
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS, Palaiseau, France
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In this paper, we use satellite observations to study the relationships between profiles of clouds and profiles of wind from June to October 2020 around India. We show that the wind can be modified by 3 m s-1 because of the presence of deep convective clouds that spread out between 14 and 17 km of altitude. We also found that cirrus clouds between 14 and 17 km are more frequent over the Arabian Sea because of fast westward winds.
In this paper, we use satellite observations to study the relationships between profiles of...
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