Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5817-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5817-2019
Research article
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07 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2019

A new approach to estimate supersaturation fluctuations in stratocumulus cloud using ground-based remote-sensing measurements

Fan Yang, Robert McGraw, Edward P. Luke, Damao Zhang, Pavlos Kollias, and Andrew M. Vogelmann

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In-cloud supersaturation is crucial for droplet activation, growth, and drizzle initiation but is poorly known and hardly measured. Here we provide a novel method to estimate supersaturation fluctuation in stratocumulus clouds using remote-sensing measurements, and results show that our estimated supersaturation agrees reasonably well with in situ measurements. Our method provides a unique way to estimate supersaturation in stratocumulus clouds from long-term ground-based observations.
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