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RISA Cirrus-Cloud Experiment: Intensive Field Observations Planned for Fire
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Plans for an intensive cirrus-cloud field experiment are described. The Cirrus Intensive Field Observations (Citrus IFO) is a major component of the First ISCCP (International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project) Regional ...
Cirrus Clouds. Part I: A Cirrus Cloud Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A two-dimensional (x, z), time-dependent, numerical cloud model is developed for the purpose of investigating the role of various physical processes involved in the maintenance of cirriform clouds. In addition to accounting ...
Cirrus Clouds. Part II: Numerical Experiments on the Formation and Maintenance of Cirrus
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The numerical cirrus cloud model of Starr and Cox is used to investigate the role of various physical processes in the formation and maintenance of cirrus. Effects due to microphysical composition, i.e., crystal habit and ...
The 27–28 October 1986 FIRE Cirrus Case Study: Meteorology and Clouds
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Detailed descriptions of the rawinsonde-resolved meteorological conditions (3-hourly soundings) associated with a succession of five distinct mesoscale cirrus cloud regimes, which were observed intensely over a 36-hour ...
Mesoscale and Microscale Structure of Cirrus Clouds: Three Case Studies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The structure and composition of three basic cirrus cloud types are examined through coordinated aircraft and ground-based polarization lidar and radar measurements. The cloud systems consist of a multilayered orographic ...
Mesoscale Generation of Available Potential Energy in the Warm Sector of an Extratropical Cyclone
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Generation of available potential energy (APE) is computed for the warm sector of an extratropical cyclone containing intense convection. Three hourly mesoscale rawinsonde data from the 10?11 April day of AVESESAME 1979 ...
Cloud-Top Heights from GOES-8 and GOES-9 Stereoscopic Imagery
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Operational satellite data from GOES-8 and GOES-9 were used to make stereoscopic measurements of cloud heights during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?s Subsonic Aircraft: Contrail and Cloud Effects Special ...
An Observational and Theoretical Study of Highly Supercooled Altocumulus
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Two altocumulus clouds, which formed at a temperature of ?30°C, were sampled using the NCAR King Air aircraft and coincident lidar during the 1986 FIRE cirrus experiment in Wisconsin. The clouds were structurally and ...
Examination of Coupling between an Upper-Tropospheric Cloud System and Synoptic-Scale Dynamics Diagnosed from Wind Profiler and Radiosonde Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The evolution of synoptic-scale dynamics associated with a middle and upper tropospheric cloud event that occurred on 26 November 1991 is examined. The case under consideration occurred during the FIRE Cirrus-II Intensive ...
A Midlatitude Cirrus Cloud Climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. Part V: Cloud Structural Properties
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In this fifth of a series of papers describing the extended-time high cloud observation program from the University of Utah Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing, the structural properties of cirrus clouds over Salt Lake ...