Comments on “Interactions among Turbulence, Radiation and Microphysics in Arctic Stratus Clouds”

Abstract

The Arctic Stratus Experiment, conducted during June 1980 over the Beaufort Sea, produced an extensive set of simultaneous measurements of boundary layer structure, radiation fluxes, and cloud microphysical properties. These data are used to determine the interactions between mixing, radiative transfer, and cloud microphysics for four cloud decks. The thermodynamic structure and fluxes of the thermodynamic quantities in the cloudy boundary layer are examined, including liquid water fluxes. Net radiative heating profiles are also determined. A detailed analysis of the fine- scale structure of the cloud microphysics is presented. A comparison is then made with other observations and existing model conceptions of the cloudy boundary layer and cloud microphysical processes. - from Author