A climatology of trade-wind cumulus cold pools and their link to mesoscale cloud organization

<p>We present a climatology of trade cumulus cold pools and their associated changes in surface weather, vertical velocity and cloudiness based on more than 10 years of in situ and remote sensing data from the Barbados Cloud Observatory. Cold pools are identified by abrupt drops in surface tem...

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Main Authors: R. Vogel, H. Konow, H. Schulz, P. Zuidema
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-11-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/16609/2021/acp-21-16609-2021.pdf