Case: 07 February 2018

Summary

Closed stratocumulus event over the ENA site during the ACE ENA campaign

Description

A relatively solid stratocumulus deck event that was collected during the ACE ENA campaign. Azores high was located directly to the west of the site, with light low-level winds over the site from the northeast. Aircraft operations were performed on this event with legs near the ENA main site. Cloud field was asymmetric for the wider Azores domain, with most cloud overcast coverage found over the ENA site and east of the Azores islands.

Available assets

Standard ARM profiling assets, SEVIRI. ACE-ENA campaign day, which includes 4 radiosonde launches, SACR, XSAPR, RLPROF-FEX. ARM AAF Gulfstream-1 (G-1)

Critical period: 17:30-19:30

Timeframe for the G-1 aircraft operations during this event

True color MODIS AQUA — Figure 54 True color afternoon MODIS AQUA image with overlaid LES domains. The image domain corresponds to the size of the model forcing domain.