Ship-produced cloud line of 13 July 1991
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Steaming ships can produce long linear cloud lines in regions of fog and broken stratus as well as in marine stratus layers. The lines are not always detected in 0.63 [mu]m satellite images, but are often detected in the corresponding 3.7 [mu]m images because the lines contain smaller and more numerous droplets than the stratus in which they are embedded as deduced by Coakley, et al. and measured by Radke, et al. They postulate cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) from steaming ships produced the mo…
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Date:
January 1, 1992
Creator:
Hindman, E. E. (City Coll. of New York, NY (United States)); Porch, W. M. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)); Hudson, J. G. (Desert Research Inst., Reno, NV (United States)) & Durkee, P. A. (Navel Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (United States))
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