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Cumulus cloud field morphology and spatial patterns derived from high spatial resolution Landsat imagery (1990)

Welch, R. M. ; Sengupta, S. K. ; Chen, D. W. ; [et al.]

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Publication Date: 2019-07-12

Description: Using high-spatial-resolution Landsat MSS imagery, the cumulus cloud morphology, cloud nearest-neighbor distributions, and cloud clumping scales were investigated. It is shown that the cloud-size distribution can be represented by a mixture of two power laws; clouds of diameters less than 1 km have power-law slope range of 1.4-2.3, while larger clouds have slopes from 2.1 to 4.75. The break in power-law slope occurs at the cloud size that makes the largest contribution to cloud cover. Results suggest that larger clouds grow at the expense of smaller clouds. It was also found that the cloud inhomogeneities have significant impact on radiative fluxes.

Keywords: METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

Type: Journal of Applied Meteorology (ISSN 0894-8763); 29; 1245-126

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