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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

The summertime stratus over the eastern Pacific Ocean

Simon, Richard Louis. January 1976 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--San Jose State University. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77).
2

Statistisk undersökning av prognosmetod för stratus efter snöfall

Grunditz, Elisabeth January 2004 (has links)
Syftet med denna magisteruppsats är att utvärdera en lokal prognosmetod för stratusbildning efter ihållande snöfall. Metoden utvecklades under slutet på 1970-talet och bygger på skillnaden i ångtryck över is och vatten. Utvärderingen sker på ett statistiskt underlag från tre platser med skilda topografiska förutsättningar; Malmen, Frösön och Vidsel. Det statistiska underlaget består av SYNOP-observationer från alla tre stationerna, radiosonderingar från Frösön och sodardata från Vidsel. För att kunna beräkna molnbasen behövs höjden till den inversion som begränsar gränsskiktet, en blandningshöjd. Denna blandningshöjd har fåtts på några olika sätt; bedömd ur SYNOP telegram, ur sonderingsdata, ur sodardata och beräknad. Därefter har den beräknade och observerade molnbasen jämförts för att se hur bra metoden fungerar. Det är svårt att visa enstaka fysikaliska fenomen (i detta fall effekten av skillnaden i ångtryck över vatten och is) enbart med en statistisk undersökning. Metoden fungerar då de förutsättningar som krävs är uppfyllda. Det står klart att molnbasen påverkas av många andra meteorologiska effekter. Terrängen på platsen har också stor inverkan på om metoden fungerar bra eller ej. När metoden används bör det värde som fås endast användas som ett riktvärde för hur låg molnbasen kan bli och inte som ett absolut värde. / The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate a local method of forecasting the formation of stratus clouds after persistent snowfall. The method was developed during the end of the 1970s and is based on the difference in vapour pressure between ice and water. The evaluation is made on statistical data from three places with different topographic conditions; Malmen, Frösön and Vidsel. The statistical data consists of SYNOP observations from all three stations, radio soundings from Frösön and sodar data from Vidsel. To calculate the cloud base it is necessary to have the height to the inversion that limits the boundary layer, a mixing height. This mixing height is either estimated from SYNOP telegrams, sounding data, sodar data or calculated. Then the calculated and observed cloud base are compared to see how well the method works. It is hard to show a single physical phenomenon (in this case the effect of the difference in vapour pressure between ice and water) only with a statistical study. The method does work when the necessary conditions are met. It is clear that the cloud base is affected by many other meteorological effects. The terrain largely affects the outcome. The value of the cloud base that is computed with this method should only be taken as a good hint of how low the cloud base can get and not as an absolute value.
3

Radiative interactions between Arctic sea ice and boundary layer stratus clouds

Ebert, Elizabeth Eby. January 1984 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73).
4

The Formation of Stratus in Rain

Frey, Wiebke January 2005 (has links)
Data analysis of SYNOP observations was made for investigation of stratus formation in rain. The aim was to find connections between meteorological parameters in the different states of rain to develop a forecast method. 1594 cases of rainfall from the four stations Luleå, Uppsala, Linköping and Såtenäs, Sweden were analysed, 974 cases include stratus formation in rain and the other 620 cases are without stratus formation. The investigation focused on the meteorological parameters wind direction, wind speed, relative humidity, visibility, cloud base height and rain intensity. As rain intensity was not explicitly included in the SYNOP observations it could not be taken as a governing parameter, but classification of the data into four groups of different rain intensity was possible. Also time was a parameter for the investigation. The results show that a more detailed investigation should be made to eliminate several influences of other parameters, for example of radiation or soil conditions. Thus it was too difficult to develop a forecast method for the formation of stratus in rain, but suggestions for further investigations and the development of a numerical model only are made. / En dataanalys av SYNOP-observationer genomfördes för undersökning av stratusbildning i regn. Målet var att hitta samband mellan de meteorologiska parametrarna i olika regntillstånden för att utveckla en prognosmetod. 1594 regntillfällen från fyra stationer, Luleå, Uppsala, Linköping och Såtenäs, analyserades. 974 tillfällen innehåller stratusbildning i regn och de andra 620 tillfällena visar ingen stratusbildning. Undersökningen koncentrerades på de meteorologiska parametrarna vindriktning, vindhastighet, relativ fuktighet, sikt, molnhöjd och regnintensitet. Eftersom regnintensiteten inte var beskriven i SYNOP-observationer kunde den inte tas med som parameter i analysena. Det gick att indela datan i fyra grupper med olika regnintensitet. Tid var också en parameter i den här unders- ökningen. Resultater visar att det behövs en noggrannare undersökning för kunna eliminera påverkan av andra parametrar som till exempel strålning eller marktillstånd. Det var därför för svårt att utveckla en prognosmetod för stratusbildning i regn, så förslag har bara gjorts för vidare undersökningar och utveckling av en numerisk modell. / Für die Untersuchung der Stratusbildung im Regen wurde eine Analyse von SYNOP-Daten durchgeführt. Ziel war es, Zusammenhänge zwischen meteorologischen Parametern in den verschiedenen Stadien von Regen zu finden, um eine Vorhersagemethode zu entwickeln. Es wurden 1594 Regen- F¨alle von den Stationen Luleå, Uppsala, Linköping und Såtenäs in Schweden analysiert, von denen 974 Fälle Stratusbildung in Regen beinhalten. Die anderen 620 Fälle zeigen keine Stratusbildung. Die Untersuchung konzentrierte sich auf die meteorologischen Parameter Windrichtung, Windgeschwindigkeit, relative Feuchte, Sicht, Wolkenhöhe und Regenintensität. Da die Regenintensität nicht direkt in den SYNOP Beobachtungen gemessen wurde, konnte sie nicht als steuernder Parameter verwendet werden, sondern diente nur zur Einteilung der Daten in vier Gruppen verschiedener Regenintensität. Die Zeit ging als ein weiterer Parameter in diese Untersuchung ein. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine genauere Untersuchung durchgeführt werden sollte, um unterschiedliche Einflüsse anderer Parameter, wie zum Beispiel Strahlung oder Bodenbeschaffenheit, auszuschließen. Wegen der zu großen Unsicherheiten war es zu schwer, eine Prognosemethode f¨ur die Stratusbildung im Regen zu entwickeln. Deswegen wurden Vorschläge für weitere Untersuchungen und f¨ur die Entwicklung eines numerischen Modells gegeben.
5

A numerical investigation of layer cloud instability.

Stewart, Douglas Arthur January 1977 (has links)
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography : leaves 99-101. / M.S.
6

Representations of boundary layer cloudiness and surface wind probability distributions in subtropical marine stratus and stratocumulus regions

He, Yanping 16 January 2007 (has links)
Representations of Boundary Layer Cloudiness and Surface Wind Probability Distributions in Subtropical Marine Stratus and Stratocumulus Regions Yanping He 153 pages Directed by Dr. Robert E. Dickinson A simple low cloud cover scheme is developed for the subtropical marine stratus and stratocumulus (MSC) regions. It is based on a modified CIN concept named the Lower Troposphere Available Dry Inhibition Energy (ADIN). The e-folder time for the local change of ADIN is found to be approximately 6 to 7 hours. On monthly and longer timescales, local productions of ADIN are balanced by local destructions of ADIN within lower troposphere. Dynamical transport of environmental dry static energy and surface evaporation lead to the variations of cloud top radiative cooling, which is a linear function of low cloud cover. Data analysis suggests that total ADIN dynamical transport plays the most important role in determining the seasonal variations and spatial variations of low cloud amounts¡£ The new scheme produces realistic seasonal and spatial variations of both EECRA ship observation and satellite observations in all MSC regions. It explains 25% more covariance than that using Klein-Hartmann (KH) scheme for monthly ISCCP low cloud amount near the Peruvian and Canarian region during the period from 1985 to 1997£¬it better represents the relationship between ENSO index and low cloud cover variations near the Peruvian region. When implemented into NCAR CAM3.1, it systematically reduces the model biases in the summertime spatial variations of low cloud amount and downward solar radiation in the Peruvian, California, and Canarian regions. Model simulated summertime cloud liquid water path, large scale precipitation, and surface fluxes are also significantly changed. A single predictor named Lower troposphere available thermal inhibition energy (ATIN) is also shown to be more skillful than the lower tropospheric stability in diagnosing low cloud stratiform clouds in the monthly and seasonal timescales. On synoptic timescale, dynamical transport of available dry inhibition energy and surface evaporation are better correlated with marine low cloud amount variations than ATIN and lower troposphere stability. The influence of boundary layer clouds, ocean surface SST, and large scale divergence on the stochastic dynamics of local ocean surface winds are addressed using QuikSCAT and AIRS satellite observations and a simple conceptual model in the southeast Pacific. The ocean surface pressure gradient depends on both the boundary layer height and temperature inversion strength. Marine boundary clouds are diagnosed using the cloud cover scheme developed in Chapter 2. The model successfully reproduces the observed mean state, the standard deviation, and skewness of local surface wind speeds in the southeast Pacific.

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