Cloud Adiabaticity and its Relationship to Marine Stratocumulus Characteristics over the Northeast Pacific Ocean


Rachel Anne Anne Braun1, Hossein Dadashazar2, Alexander Bruce MacDonald2, Ewan Crosbie3,4, Haflidi Jonsson5, Roy Woods6, Richard C Flagan7, John Seinfeld7 and Armin Sorooshian2,8, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, (5)Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States