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Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2025-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-2025-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
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

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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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