The signature of aerosols and meteorology in long-term cloud radar observations of trade wind cumuli

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4643-4659

  Lonitz, Katrin ^a,b   Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Nuijens, Louise ^a   Sant, Vivek ^a   Hirsch, Lutz ^a   Seifert, Axel ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Clouds; Convective clouds; Cumulus clouds; Observational techniques and algorithms; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Precipitation; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; COMMERCE; DUST; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CUMULUS CLOUD; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CUMULUS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

BARBADOS;

EID: 84950247271     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0348.1     Document Type: Article

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