Fractional Cloudiness and Cloud-Top Entrainment Instability
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- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Vol. 48 (12) , 1519-1525
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1991)048<1519:fcacte>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Temperature and moisture profiles from soundings obtained over the central Atlantic during the Atlantic Trade-Wind Experiment were used to determine if cloud-top entrainment instability can explain observed variations in cloudiness. Differences in temperature and moisture across the trade inversion associated with fractional cloudiness near 100% were nearly the same as those associated with less than 25% cloud cover. NO correlation between fractional cloudiness and boundary layer mixing-line slopes was found.Keywords
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