Droplet spectra observed in marine stratus cloud layers.

Abstract

Airborne measurements of the water droplet spectra from about 14 levels in stratus layers during May and August 1981, 130 km SW of San Diego. Profiles of the four parameters were constructed as a function of the distance from the cloud base, defined to be at the level where the liquid water content is 0.02 g m-3. The droplet spectra on the marine and continental air mass days differed primarily because n(r) on the continental days contained many more small droplets.-from Author