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On sympathetic fluctuations of cloud water content and cloud top height in anticyclonic stratocumulus
Author(s) -
Roach W. T.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49711046318
Subject(s) - anticyclone , cloud computing , environmental science , liquid water content , atmospheric sciences , geology , climatology , meteorology , geography , computer science , operating system
Evidence is produced which suggests that sympathetic fluctuations in cloud top height and total cloud water content observed during two case studies of nocturnal anticyclonic stratocumulus at Cardington (52°06′N, 0°24′W) may be due to vertical adiabatic displacements of the cloud layer as a whole, perhaps forced by local topography. Simultaneous observations from more than one site will be needed to test this tentative hypothesis, and these are defined.