Cloud-Top Entrainment Instability Observed in AMTEX

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Creator	Mahrt, L. Paumier, J.
Abstract	Aircraft data collected at the top of a cloud-topped mixed layer during the Air Mass Transformation Experiment are analyzed. Entrainment instability due to evaporation of liquid water is found to occur intermittently. This instability and upward heat flux occur frequently at the downstream edge of cloudy mixed-layer motions which have penetrated upward into the faster moving dry air of the inversion layer. Such circulations appear to occur mainly on scales of the order of 100 or 200 m. At the level of the aircraft at the mixed-layer top, the net heat flux is upward in cloudy regions and downward in the driest regions.
Resource Type	Article
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1982)039<0622:CTEIOI>2.0.CO;2
Date Available	2012-05-14T17:03:23+00:00
Date Issued	1982-03
Citation	Mahrt, L., J. Paumier, 1982: Cloud-Top Entrainment Instability Observed in AMTEX. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 622–634. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1982)039<0622:CTEIOI>2.0.CO;2
Journal Title	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal Volume	39
Journal Issue/Number	3
Rights Statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Funding Statement (additional comments about funding)	This material is based upon work supported by the Global Atmospheric Research Program of the National Science Foundation under Grant ATM-7910042.
Publisher	American Meteorological Society
Language	English [eng]
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/29150
Accessibility Feature	unknown