On sympathetic fluctuations of cloud water content and cloud top height in anticyclonic stratocumulus

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The effect of temperature and humidity fluctuations on the liquid water path of non-precipitating closed-cell stratocumulus clouds

✍ Stephan R. de Roode; Alexander Los 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 728 KB

## Abstract The spatial variability of the liquid water path (LWP) is analyzed from a large‐eddy simulation of the diurnal cycle of stratocumulus clouds as observed during FIRE I. In stratocumulus clouds, the temperature and the total specific humidity cannot fluctuate independently, but are tightl