Why and How Do Clouds Form in Particular Locations?
Our planet’s cloudiness has been heretofore understood as being controlled by the slowly varying, large scale, atmospheric circulation known as the Hadley cell. In this video, CLAUDIA STEPHAN argues that this model is overly simplistic. Bringing recent measurements taken over the Atlantic into dialogue with observational data gathered in Darwin on gravity waves, Stephan suggests that relationships between clouds and atmospheric waves can provide important insight into, and ultimately improve, weather and climate modeling.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10825Max Planck Society
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Original Publication
Gravity Wave Influences on Mesoscale Divergence: An Observational Case Study
Claudia Stephan
,Todd P. Lane
,Christian Jakob
Published in 2020