Case: 15 October 2016

Summary

A closed stratocumulus cloud deck with embedded drizzle and subcloud precipitation

Description

A widespread cloud deck over the ENA main site with embedded intervals exhibiting heavier drizzle that reached the surface. The boundary layer flows were predominantly northeasterly to easterly. There were upper-level clouds observed from SEVIRI that remained outside of the more immediate Azores modeling domains. The cloud deck was persistent over the main ENA site throughout the day, with thinning of the deck observed to the south of the islands. Inversion height at approximately 1.8 km AGL.

Available assets

Standard ARM profiling assets, SEVIRI

Critical period: 06:00–09:00

Drizzling stratocumulus with precipitation reaching the surface at the ENA main site

True color MODIS AQUA — Figure 7 True color afternoon MODIS AQUA image with overlaid LES domains. The image domain corresponds to the size of the model forcing domain.