2018年6月
Assessing the impact of the Kuroshio Current on vertical cloud structure using CloudSat data
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
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- 巻
- 18
- 号
- 10
- 開始ページ
- 7657
- 終了ページ
- 7667
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.5194/acp-18-7657-2018
- 出版者・発行元
- COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
This study analyzed CloudSat satellite data to determine how the warm ocean Kuroshio Current affects the vertical structure of clouds. Rainfall intensity around the middle troposphere (6 km in height) over the Kuroshio was greater than that over surrounding areas. The drizzle clouds over the Kuroshio have a higher frequency of occurrence of geometrically thin (0.5-3 km) clouds and thicker (7-10 km) clouds compared to those around the Kuroshio. Moreover, the frequency of occurrence of precipitating clouds with a geometric thickness of 7 to 10 km increased over the Kuroshio. Stronger updrafts over the Kuroshio maintain large droplets higher in the upper part of the cloud layer, and the maximum radar reflectivity within a cloud layer in non-precipitating and drizzle clouds over the Kuroshio is higher than that around the Kuroshio.
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- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.5194/acp-18-7657-2018
- ISSN : 1680-7316
- eISSN : 1680-7324
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000433963400004