TY - JOUR
T1 - The 1997 Pan American Climate Studies Tropical Eastern Pacific Process Study. Part II
T2 - Stratocumulus region
AU - Yuter, Sandra E.
AU - Serra, Yolande L.
AU - Houze, Robert A.
PY - 2000/3
Y1 - 2000/3
N2 - An ad hoc experiment in the marine stratocumulus region to the west of Mexico was conducted from 29 August to 6 September 1997 as part of the Pan American Climate Studies Tropical Eastern Pacific Process Study cruise on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Ronald H. Brown after a medical emergency cut short the planned time in the eastern Pacific ITCZ. The joint variation of cloud structure, drizzle, and tropospheric stratification was documented by a combination of three hourly upper air soundings, scanning C-band radar, hourly cloud photography, and visual observation. The sensitive C-band Doppler radar mounted on the ship was able to obtain observations of drizzle cells with regions of greater than 10 dBZ of 2-3-km scale in the horizontal and peak reflectivities of greater than 25 dBZ.
AB - An ad hoc experiment in the marine stratocumulus region to the west of Mexico was conducted from 29 August to 6 September 1997 as part of the Pan American Climate Studies Tropical Eastern Pacific Process Study cruise on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Ronald H. Brown after a medical emergency cut short the planned time in the eastern Pacific ITCZ. The joint variation of cloud structure, drizzle, and tropospheric stratification was documented by a combination of three hourly upper air soundings, scanning C-band radar, hourly cloud photography, and visual observation. The sensitive C-band Doppler radar mounted on the ship was able to obtain observations of drizzle cells with regions of greater than 10 dBZ of 2-3-km scale in the horizontal and peak reflectivities of greater than 25 dBZ.
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U2 - 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<0483:TPACST>2.3.CO;2
DO - 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<0483:TPACST>2.3.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000725847
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 81
SP - 483
EP - 490
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 3
ER -