Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 483-490 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atmospheric Science
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