Abstract
Doppler power spectra from a vertically pointing 94GHz cloud radar are used to retrieve the mean and turbulent components of the in-cloud vertically velocities for a continental stratocumulus cloud field. Several horizontal scales of motion in the mean velocity field are shown, including a wave-cloud feature seen in satellite photographs. A profile of vertical velocity variance is computed for both a high reflectivity and a low reflectivity regime. These profiles appear reasonable and agree well to similar statistics from an instrumented aircraft.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1177-1180 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Geophysical Research Letters |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1999 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Geophysics
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences