Impact of Dynamics and Atmospheric State on Cloud Vertical
Overlap  Download a printable PDF  Naud, C. M., Columbia
University/NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies  Cloud
Distributions/Characterizations  Cloud Modeling  Naud, C, A Del
Genio, GG Mace, S Benson, EE Clothiaux, and P Kollias. "Impact
of dynamics and atmospheric state on cloud vertical overlap."
Journal of Climate 218: 1758–1770.  Mean overlap parameter α as
a function of separation: (a,b) at SGP for all winter months of
2002-2004 and for 4 subsets of increasing 500 mb ω such as ω <
15 hPa hr-1, -15 < ω < -5 hPa hr-1, -5 < ω <5 hPa hr-1 and ω > 5
hPa hr-1; (c,d) at Manus for 5 subsets of increasing δθes/δz;
(e,f) at Nauru, for the same 5 subsets as at Manus. The TWP
δθes/δz subsets are 2.5 K km-1 wide and centered on 2.5, 0,
-2.5, -5 and -7.5 K km-1, the range defined by -7.5 K km-1 also
includes all the points found below -8.75 K km-1. All curves
stop at the separation where the number of points < 250 at SGP
but the criterion was relaxed to 1