Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2025-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2025-2026
Research article
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24 Mar 2026
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2026

Towards retrieving cloud top entrainment velocities from MISR cloud motion vectors

Arka Mitra and Virendra P. Ghate

Data sets

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1940 to present Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS) https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

MISR Level 3 Cloud Motion Vector monthly Product in netCDF format V002 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/Terra/MISR/MI3MCMVN_L3.002

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Short summary
Entrainment of dry warm air from above the cloud into the cloud layer modulates cloud properties and lifetime. Despite its importance, observations of entrainment remain elusive. Presented here is a technique to derive entrainment velocities using cloud top heights, and horizontal winds from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR). The results motivate application of the technique to generate global climatology, and perform process-level and model-evaluation studies.
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