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Cloud-top Entrainment Instability

Cloud-Top Entrainment Instability is a theorized fluid dynamical instability in atmospheric boundary layer clouds wherein the interaction between radiative cooling at the cloud top and entrainment of dry environmental air induces a runaway process that erodes cloud liquid water and promotes cloud breakup.

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A Prognostic Cloud Water Parameterization for Global Climate Models

Anthony D. Del Genio, Mao‐Sung Yao, William Kovari et al. · Journal of Climate · 1996 · 443 citations

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Conditional Instability of the First Kind Upside-Down

David A. Randall · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1980 · 356 citations · Full text

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Cloud Top Entrainment Instability

J. W. Deardorff · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1980 · 321 citations · Full text

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Cloud-Top Entrainment in Stratocumulus Clouds

Juan Pedro Mellado · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 2016 · 202 citations · Full text

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On entrainment rates in nocturnal marine stratocumulus

Björn Stevens, Donald H. Lenschow, I. C. Faloona et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2003 · 178 citations · Full text

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  1. SP
    Szymon P. Malinowski

    University of Warsaw, Poland

    4 publications · 152 citations

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  2. MK
    M. K. Kopec

    University of Warsaw, Poland

    3 publications · 113 citations

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  3. ST
    Steven T. Siems

    Monash University, Australia

    3 publications · 176 citations

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  4. RB
    Robert Breidenthal

    University of Washington, United States

    3 publications · 174 citations

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  5. BA
    Bruce Albrecht

    University of Miami, United States

    3 publications · 108 citations

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  1. University of Warsaw

    Warsaw, Poland

    4 h-index

    18 publications

    732 citations

  2. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    548 citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    277 citations

  4. Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences

    Warsaw, Poland

    4 h-index

    18 publications

    732 citations

  5. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    923 citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

    Hamburg, Germany

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    287 citations

  7. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Reston, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    348 citations

  8. Met Office

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    121 citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    22 publications · 1.6K citations

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  3. Atmospheric chemistry and physics

    3 publications · 136 citations

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  4. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

    JAMES · 2 publications · 48 citations

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  5. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    2 publications · 48 citations

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