.. _TitCase20180730:

Case: 30 July 2018
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Summary
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Thin stratocumulus over ENA site with broken regional coverage 

Description
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This was a multi-day closed cell stratocumulus event with solid cloud fractional coverage over the ENA main site. However, there was broken and/or dissipating cloud coverage regional over the larger Azores domain during the daytime hours on both events. The low-level winds were light and from a northerly direction. The cloud deck featured a cloud echo top height that remained constant at approximately 1.3 km AGL, with periods of nonprecipitating cloud and radar signatures of drizzle.                                                  

Available assets
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Standard ARM profiling assets, SEVIRI. SACR. RLPROF-FEX. Additional ENA GNSS ground station radiosonde launched on July 30th (0330 UTC) 

Critical period: 08:00-18:00
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Period with the most continuous closed stratocumulus coverage over the ENA main site


.. figure:: images/enalasso_obs-aqua-pm-modis-vis_20180730.jpg
    :name: FigCase20180730
    :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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