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标题：From Sugar to Flowers: A Transition of Shallow Cumulus Organization During ATOMIC
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作者：Pornampai Narenpitak ; Jan Kazil ; Takanobu Yamaguchi 等
期刊名称：Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
电子版ISSN：1942-2466
出版年度：2021
卷号：13
期号：10
页码：n/a-n/a
DOI：10.1029/2021MS002619
语种：English
出版社：John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
摘要：The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean‐Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) took place in January–February, 2020. It was designed to understand the relationship between shallow convection and the large‐scale environment in the trade‐wind regime. A Lagrangian large eddy simulation, following the trajectory of a boundary‐layer airmass, can reproduce a transition of trade cumulus organization from “sugar” to “flower” clouds with cold pools, observed on February 2–3. The simulation is driven with reanalysis large‐scale meteorology, and in‐situ aerosol data from ATOMIC and its joint field study EUREC4A. During the transition, large‐scale upward motion deepens the cloud layer. The total water path and optical depth increase, especially in the moist regions where flowers aggregate. This is due to mesoscale circulation that renders a net convergence of total water in the already moist and cloudy regions, strengthening the organization. An additional simulation shows that stronger large scale upward motion reinforces the mesoscale circulation and accelerates the organization process by strengthening the cloud‐layer mesoscale buoyant turbulence kinetic energy production.