Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds.
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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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