RACORO Continental Boundary Layer Cloud Investigations: Large-Eddy Simulations of Cumulus Clouds and Evaluation with In-Situ and Ground-Based Observations

Satoshi Endo1, Ann M Fridlind2, Wuyin Lin1, Andrew M Vogelmann3, Tami Fairless1, Andrew S Ackerman4, Greg M McFarquhar5, Robert Jackson6, Haflidi Jonsson7 and Yangang Liu1, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Sciences, Laramie, WY, United States, (7)Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States