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MBL depth/cloud top height estimates

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1 MBL depth/cloud top height estimates
VOCALS Region, 20oS

2 POCKETS of OPEN CELLS (POCs)

3 MBL depth, LWP, and POC formation
MODIS CTH

4 MBL composite profiles of potential temperature and water vapor
Albrecht et al. (JGR, 1995)

5 Sensor synergy – MBL profile reconstruction
Inputs: MODIS LWP => cloud thickness, cloud top temperature pdf AMSR => SST, column WVP GPS => FT moisture, MBL depth AMSR-GPS => MBL moisture path Outputs: MBL moisture/temp stratification Inversion structure (trade wind MBL) Lapse rate (static stability in the MBL)

6 Entrainment rate estimates
Wood and Bretherton et al. (J Climate, 2004)

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8 With independent cloud top height or MBL depth information
Lapse rate (MODIS CTT, CALIPSO CTH, SST) Wu et al. (GRSL, 2008)

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