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- Title
Cloud characteristics, thermodynamic controls and radiative impacts during the Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) experiment.
- Authors
Giangrande, Scott E.; Zhe Feng; Jensen, Michael P.; Comstock, Jennifer M.; Johnson, Karen L.; Tami Toto; Meng Wang; Burleyson, Casey; Bharadwaj, Nitin; Fan Mei; Machado, Luiz A. T.; Manzi, Antonio O.; Shaocheng Xie; Shuaiqi Tang; Silva Dias, Maria Assuncao F.; de Souza, Rodrigo A. F.; Schumacher, Courtney; Martin, Scot T.
- Abstract
Routine cloud, precipitation and thermodynamic observations collected by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Mobile Facility (AMF) and Aerial Facility (AAF) during the 2-year US Department of Energy (DOE) ARM Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5) campaign are summarized. These observations quantify the diurnal to large-scale thermodynamic regime controls on the clouds and precipitation over the undersampled, climatically important Amazon basin region. The extended ground deployment of cloud-profiling instrumentation enabled a unique look at multiple cloud regimes at high temporal and vertical resolution. This longer-term ground deployment, coupled with two short-term aircraft intensive observing periods, allowed new opportunities to better characterize cloud and thermodynamic observational constraints as well as cloud radiative impacts for modeling efforts within typical Amazon "wet" and "dry" seasons.
- Subjects
THERMODYNAMIC control; METEOROLOGICAL precipitation; DIURNAL cloud variations; CLIMATE change; THERMODYNAMICS
- Publication
Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 23, p14519
- ISSN
1680-7316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/acp-17-14519-2017