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Numerical experiments on cloud streets in the lee of island arcs during cold-air outbreaks
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan
Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan
Numerous clouds streets often appear in the lee of island arcs during cold-air outbreak. These clouds are quite similar each other in shape and appearance. We found that two different kinds of cloud streets are coexistent in them, one is formed by a mountain and another is formed by the temperature contrast between islands and the sea. Since difference in the characteristics between them is small, it is difficult to simply discriminate by satellite images. However, two kinds of the cloud streets can be observationally classified by the statistics of the satellite images with the help of numerical experiments.
Received 15 April 2005; accepted 28 June 2005; published 28 July 2005.
Citation: (2005), Numerical experiments on cloud streets in the lee of island arcs during cold-air outbreaks, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L14823, doi:10.1029/2005GL023256.
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