May 16 – 19, 2022
Utrecht
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Cloud size and cloud spacing distributions of trade-wind cumuli observed at cloud base for a range of mesoscale organizations

May 16, 2022, 12:18 PM
2m
Public Library (Utrecht)

Public Library

Utrecht

Neude 11, 3512 AE Utrecht, the Netherlands

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.

Primary authors

Julius Mex (LMD) Mr Nicolas Rochetin (LMD - ENS) Mrs Sandrine Bony (LMD - IPSL)

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