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Spatial patterns and trends of summertime low cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996-2017

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Dye, Alex W., Rastogi, Bharat, Clemesha, Rachel E. S., Kim, John B., Samelson, Roger M., Still, Christopher J., and Williams, A. Park

Abstract:

Summertime low clouds are common in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), but spatiotemporal patterns have not been characterized. We show the first maps of low cloudiness for the western PNW and North Pacific Ocean using a 22‐year satellite‐derived record of monthly mean low cloudiness frequency for May through September and supplemented...

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; Neiburger et al., 1961). During the Northern Hemisphere sum- mer, subsidence combined with northwest surface