Browsing by Subject "clouds"
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(2014-12-08)The studies in this thesis aim to improve the overall understanding of the characteristics of the marine stratocumulus to shallow cumulus transition over the southeast Pacific Ocean. This study uses observations from ...
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(2012-02-14)Surface downward far-infrared (far-IR) spectra were collected from NASA’s Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST) instrument from August to October 2009 at an altitude of 5.4 km near the summit of Cerro Toco, ...
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(2013-07-22)Martian clouds and dust play an important part of the radiative transfer and energy balance budget. To assist in fully understanding the impact of clouds and dust, the complete diurnal cycle needs to be characterized. One ...
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(2015-06-19)Clouds are still one of the largest uncertainties of the current climate models. While satellites provide suitable global datasets for comparing with cloud properties derived from models, satellite retrievals are inferences ...
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(2009-05-15)Ice clouds occur quite frequently, yet so much about these clouds is unknown. In recent years, numerous investigations and field campaigns have been focused on the study of ice clouds, all with the ultimate goal of gaining ...
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(2018-06-12)The concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) modulate cloud properties, rainfall location and intensity, and climate forcings. This work assesses uncertainties in CCN measurements and the apparent hygroscopicity ...
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Investigating the Impacts of Atmospheric Aerosols on Cloud Formation Relevant to Weather and Climate (2014-12-10)In recent years, human induced air pollution has significantly increased, with profound atmospheric implications from local, regional, to global scales [Stocker et al., 2013]. This impact has sparked active research on the ...
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(2013-03-25)This dissertation presents a series of work related to the representation of the Hadley circulation (HC) in atmospheric reanalyses and general circulation models (GCMs), with connections to the underlying tropical and ...
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(2016-05-09)Global circulation models (GCMs) and climate simulations often use radiative fluxes and heating rates from radiative transfer models. However, the calculations that are used are those where scattering of a cloudy atmosphere ...