Speaker
Julius Mex
(LMD)
Description
During the EUREC4A field campaign that took place near Barbados in Jan-Feb 2020, the French ATR aircraft flew in the lower troposphere and characterized the macrophysical, microphysical and turbulent properties of trade cumuli around the cloud-base level. Using horizontal lidar-radar observations and in-situ measurements, we characterize the cloud size and cloud spacing distributions of cumuli for a range of mesoscale organizations.
Robust features, as well as organization-dependent features, will be highlighted and analyzed in the light of turbulent and microphysical measurements. The physical interpretation of these features, as well as their comparison with large-eddy simulation results published in the literature, will be discussed.
