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dc.contributor.authorde Szoeke, Simon P.
dc.contributor.authorVerlinden, Kathryn L.
dc.contributor.authorYuter, Sandra E.
dc.contributor.authorMechem, David B.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-07T20:52:42Z
dc.date.available2017-12-07T20:52:42Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-15
dc.identifier.citationDe Szoeke, S. P., Verlinden, K. L., Yuter, S. E., & Mechem, D. B. (2016). The time scales of variability of marine low clouds. Journal of Climate, 29(18), 6463-6481.en_US
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dc.description.abstractMultidecade global regressions of inversion strength, vertical velocity, and sea surface temperature (SST) on low cloud amount, from subdaily to multiyear time scales, refute the dominance of seasonal inversion strength on marine low cloud variability. Multiday low cloud variance averaged over the eastern Pacific and Atlantic stratocumulus regions [5 × 10−2 (cloud amount)2] is twice the subdaily variance and 5 times larger than the multimonth variance. The broad multiday band contains most (60%) of the variance, despite strong seasonal (annual) and diurnal spectral peaks. Multiday low cloud amount over the eastern tropical and midlatitude oceans is positively correlated to inversion strength, with a slope of 2%–5% K−1. Anecdotes show multiday low cloud and inversion strength anomalies propagate equatorward from midlatitudes. Previously shown correlations of low clouds to strong inversions and cool SST on monthly and longer time scales in the stratocumulus regions imply positive cloud-radiative feedbacks, with e-folding time scales of 300 days for SST and 14 days for atmospheric boundary layer temperature. On multimonth time scales, removing the effect of SST on low clouds reduces the low cloud amount explained by inversion strength by a factor of 3, but SST has a small effect at other time scales. Contrary to their positive correlation in the stratocumulus cloud decks, low clouds are anticorrelated to inversion strength over most of the tropics on daily and subdaily time scales.en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Meteorological Societyen_US
dc.rights© Copyright 2016/26/08 American Meteorological Society (AMS).en_US
dc.subjectAtm/Ocean Structure/ Phenomenaen_US
dc.subjectBoundary layeren_US
dc.subjectSea surface temperatureen_US
dc.subjectStabilityen_US
dc.subjectPhysical Meteorology and Climatologyen_US
dc.subjectAtmosphere-ocean interactionen_US
dc.subjectCloud coveren_US
dc.subjectMathematical and statistical techniquesen_US
dc.subjectTime seriesen_US
dc.titleThe Time Scales of Variability of Marine Low Cloudsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorMechem, David B.
kusw.kudepartmentGeography & Atmospheric Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0460.1en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
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