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Cloud Base Formation

Cloud Base Formation is a meteorological construct that identifies the altitude at which rising moist air parcels cool adiabatically to saturation, leading to condensation and the visible onset of cloud, thereby distinguishing it from other cloud formation processes by marking the lower boundary of cloud development.

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Vegetation, Soil, and Climate on the Green Mountains of Vermont

Thomas G. Siccama · Ecological Monographs · 1974 · 193 citations

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Impact of land use on Costa Rican tropical montane cloud forests: Sensitivity of cumulus cloud field characteristics to lowland deforestation

U. S. Nair, Robert O. Lawton, Ronald M. Welch et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2003 · 143 citations

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The distribution and variability of low‐level cloud in the North Atlantic trades

Louise Nuijens, Ilya Serikov, Lutz Hirsch et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2013 · 116 citations

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A growth‐sedimentation model of polar mesospheric clouds: Comparison with SME measurements

E. J. Jensen, Gary E. Thomas · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1988 · 107 citations

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Behavior of cloud base height from ceilometer measurements

Montserrat Costa-Surós, Josep Calbó, Josep‐Abel González et al. · Atmospheric Research · 2013 · 90 citations

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Authors

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  1. TI
    Takeshi Imamura

    Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan

    2 publications · 124 citations

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  2. KB
    Keith Bower

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 73 citations

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  3. DS
    Dominic Samra

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 49 citations

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  4. RG
    R. G. Harrison

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 91 citations

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  5. CH
    Ch. Helling

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

127

  1. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    280 citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    210 citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    223 citations

  4. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    504 citations

  5. Met Office

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    85 citations

  6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    100 citations

  7. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    167 citations

  8. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Pasadena, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    75 citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 7 publications · 209 citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 5 publications · 419 citations

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  3. Atmospheric chemistry and physics

    4 publications · 181 citations

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  4. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    3 publications · 119 citations

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