.. _TitCase20180630:

Case: 30 June 2018
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Summary
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Closed stratocumulus deck over ENA that gradually transitioned to open cell conditions

Description
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This was a multi-day and transitional event that featured relatively closed cell precipitating conditions in the vicinity of the ENA site and southward of the islands. These conditions gradually transitioned into weaker, open cellular clouds. Winds were north or northeasterly throughout this event and light. Cloud echo top heights were observed to be below 1.5 km AGL and in line with sounding inversion height. SEVIRI observations suggested evidence of higher clouds building throughout the northern parts of the Azores region as associated with an approaching synoptic wave.                                                

Available assets
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Standard ARM profiling assets, SEVIRI.

Critical period: 03:00-12:00
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Closed, precipitating stratocumulus conditions over the ENA site 


.. figure:: images/enalasso_obs-aqua-pm-modis-vis_20180630.jpg
    :name: FigCase20180630
    :align: center
    :alt: True color MODIS AQUA 
    :figclass: align-center

    True color afternoon MODIS AQUA image with overlaid LES domains. The image domain corresponds to the size of the model forcing domain.  



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