Optically thin clouds in the trades
<p>We develop a new method to describe the total cloud cover including optically thin clouds in trade wind cumulus cloud fields. Climate models and large eddy simulations commonly underestimate the cloud cover, while estimates from observations largely disagree on the cloud cover in the trades...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
| Online Access: | https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/6879/2022/acp-22-6879-2022.pdf |