.. _TitCase20190331:

Case: 31 March 2019
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Summary
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Transitional event from closed to open cell conditions 

Description
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This was a hybrid cloud regime event that initially featured a widespread precipitating stratocumulus deck that eventually transitioned to open cell cumulus field after midday. Winds for this event were light and from a northerly direction. The melting level was relatively low throughout (~1.5 km AGL), remained below the observed cloud echo top heights throughout both cloud phases of this event. Some evidence of high clouds from SEVIRI observations, however these remained south of the Azores region of interest and briefly advected through the domain towards the end of this event (after 18 UTC).                                               

Available assets
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Standard ARM profiling assets, SEVIRI. RLPROF-FEX

Critical period: 12:00-15:00
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Transitional period from closed to open cell conditions 


.. figure:: images/enalasso_obs-aqua-pm-modis-vis_20190331.jpg
    :name: FigCase20190331
    :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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