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Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds.


ABSTRACT: Shallow marine clouds appear in two formations - open cells that are weakly reflective and closed cells that are more reflective and hence more effective at cooling the climate system. Lagrangian satellite data analysis reveals that open cells oscillate, forming and disappearing with a periodicity of ~3 hours. In contrast, closed cells maintain rigid structures for periods of more than 10 hours, suggesting that self-organisation breaks the link between the lifetime and the scale of a convective entity. These dynamical states are linked to two theoretical solutions of population dynamics.

SUBMITTER: Koren I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3753593 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds.

Koren Ilan I   Feingold Graham G  

Scientific reports 20130101


Shallow marine clouds appear in two formations - open cells that are weakly reflective and closed cells that are more reflective and hence more effective at cooling the climate system. Lagrangian satellite data analysis reveals that open cells oscillate, forming and disappearing with a periodicity of ~3 hours. In contrast, closed cells maintain rigid structures for periods of more than 10 hours, suggesting that self-organisation breaks the link between the lifetime and the scale of a convective  ...[more]

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