Strong cloud–circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback

R Vogel, AL Albright, J Vial, G George, B Stevens… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Shallow cumulus clouds in the trade-wind regions cool the planet by reflecting solar
radiation. The response of trade cumulus clouds to climate change is a key uncertainty in …

Observed subcloud-layer moisture and heat budgets in the trades

AL Albright, S Bony, B Stevens… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The trade wind subcloud layer is an important structural component of the atmosphere. Its
thermodynamic variability has long been characterized using simple frameworks, of which …

Widespread shallow mesoscale circulations observed in the trades

G George, B Stevens, S Bony, R Vogel… - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the drivers of cloud organization is crucial for accurately estimating cloud
feedbacks and their contribution to climate warming. Shallow mesoscale circulations are …

Isotopic measurements in water vapor, precipitation, and seawater during EUREC4A

A Bailey, F Aemisegger, L Villiger… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
In early 2020, an international team set out to investigate trade wind cumulus and their
coupling to the large-scale circulation through the field campaign EUREC 4 A: ElUcidating …

Cloud transition across the daily cycle illuminates model responses of trade cumuli to warming

J Vial, AL Albright, R Vogel… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The response of trade cumulus clouds to warming remains a major source of uncertainty for
climate sensitivity. Recent studies have highlighted the role of the cloud–convection …

A new conceptual picture of the trade wind transition layer

AL Albright, B Stevens, S Bony… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The transition layer in the trades has long been observed and simulated, but the physical
processes producing its structure remain little investigated. Using extensive observations …

Trade wind boundary layer turbulence and shallow precipitating convection: New insights combining SAR images, satellite brightness temperature, and airborne in …

PE Brilouet, D Bouniol, F Couvreux… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The imprint of marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) dynamical structures on sea
surface roughness, as seen from Sentinel‐1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisitions, is …

[HTML][HTML] Ground- and ship-based microwave radiometer measurements during

S Schnitt, A Foth, H Kalesse-Los… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
During the EUREC 4 A field study, microwave radiometric measurements were performed at
Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) and aboard RV Meteor and RV Maria S Merian in the …

Ice crystal images from optical array probes: classification with convolutional neural networks

L Jaffeux, A Schwarzenböck, P Coutris… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
Although airborne optical array probes (OAPs) have existed for decades, our ability to
maximize extraction of meaningful morphological information from the images produced by …

Water isotopic characterisation of the cloud–circulation coupling in the North Atlantic trades – Part 1: A process-oriented evaluation of COSMO simulations with …

L Villiger, M Dütsch, S Bony, M Lothon… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Naturally available, stable, and heavy water molecules such as HDO and H 2 18 O have a
lower saturation vapour pressure than the most abundant light water molecule H 2 16 O; …