The Epic 2001 Stratocumulus Study

By Chris Bretherton, T. Uttal, Christopher W. Fairall, Sandra E. Yuter, R. Weller, D. Baumgardner, K. Comstock, R. Wood, G. Raga. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Challenges and Prospects for Reducing Coupled Climate Model SST Biases in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: The U.S. CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis Working Group (2016, background): “A further concept introduced at the 2003 meeting was to bring smaller teams of observationalists and modelers together in climate process teams (CPTs), to develop and improve relevant and specific model parameter-izations (Bretherton et al. 2004a).”
ATMOSPHERIC MOIST CONVECTION (2005, background): “This nocturnal proclivity is especially evident from five days of ship-board measurements made in regions of the south-east Pacific known to favor stratocumulus convection (Bretherton et al. 2004a).”
An aircraft case study of the spatial transition from closed to open mesoscale cellular convection over the Southeast Pacific (2010, background): “…of marine stratocumulus and the degree to which they precipitate, with spatial transitions between regions of closed and open mesoscale cellular convection frequently associated with an increase in precipitation strength (Bretherton et al., 2004; Stevens et al., 2005; Comstock et al., 2005,5 2007).”
What Controls the Mean Depth of the PBL (2005, background): “2); observations from the second Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus field study (DYCOMS-II) (Stevens et al. 2003) are around 800–900 m, and those from the Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC) are closer to 1200 m (Bretherton et al. 2004).”
POCKETS OF OPEN CELLS AND DRIZZLE IN MARINE STRATOCUMULUS (2005, background): “For instance, during the recent EPIC field study (Bretherton et al. 2004) a boundary between a region of open and closed cellular convection advected over the NOAA Research Vessel the Ronald H.”
Drizzle in Stratiform Boundary Layer Clouds. Part I: Vertical and Horizontal Structure (2005, background): “Hudson and Yum (2001) find this to be the case in small cumuli, and Comstock et al. (2004) find a significant negative correlation between drizzle rate and Nd in southeast Pacific stratocumulus.”
Cancellation of Aerosol Indirect Effects in Marine Stratocumulus through Cloud Thinning (2007, methodology): “It can be seen from (11) that the second term, which represents the effect of entrainment on h, can be both positive or negative depending upon the sign of , a behavior previously explored by Randall et al. (1984). To cast light on the influence of the environment on , we can approximately rewrite S”
Cosmic Rays and Climate (2005, background): “ntense incoming solar radiation, while at the same time are prodigious emitters of longwave radiation. These are the marine stratus and stratocumulus clouds—the “climate refrigerators of the tropics” [146]. Water vapour and clouds have an important inﬂuence on the redistribution of energy. Evaporati”
Clouds in Tropical Cyclones (2010, background): “The conditions in the eye region are ideal for the formation of a cloud-topped mixed layer (Lilly 1968; Stevens et al. 2003; Bretherton et al. 2004) because subsidence in the eye produces a stable layer at the top of a vigorous mixed layer over a warm ocean surface.”
Observations of ice multiplication in a weakly convective cell embedded in supercooled mid-level stratus (2010, background): “Stratus clouds have an important impact on global climate as they typically have a high albedo, cover signiﬁcant areas of the Earths surface and are relatively long lived (for liquid clouds see Bretherton et al., 2004; Ramanathan et al., 1989).”
Drizzle in Stratiform Boundary Layer Clouds. Part II: Microphysical Aspects. (2005, background): “The amount of drizzle appears to be modulated by cloud microphysics (Hudson and Yum, 2001; Bretherton et al., 2004), and it is therefore imperative that accurate parameterizations of the drizzle process are incorporated into cloud models (Stevens et al., 1998), if such models are to accurately…”
Unified treatment of dry convective and stratocumulus‐topped boundary layers in the ECMWF model (2011, background): “Bretherton et al. (2004) document the EPIC ship-based field experiment that took place off the coast of Chile at 20◦S, 85◦W in October 2001.”
Stratocumulus Cloud-Top Height Estimates and Their Climatic Implications (2009, background): “…this Unauthenticated | Downloaded 07/05/22 02:03 PM UTC process is most active in July and August (Richter and Mechoso 2004), the vague definition of the northern boundary to the October low cloud-top height region, in contrast to that in the southeast Pacific, suggests that it also happens here.”