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    High-resolution vertical velocities and their power spectrum observed with the MAARSY radar – Part 1: frequency spectrum
    (Katlenburg, Lindau : Copernicus, 2018-4-3) Li, Qiang; Rapp, Markus; Stober, Gunter; Latteck, Ralph
    The Middle Atmosphere Alomar Radar System (MAARSY) installed at the island of Andøya has been run for continuous probing of atmospheric winds in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) region. In the current study, we present high-resolution wind measurements during the period between 2010 and 2013 with MAARSY. The spectral analysis applying the Lomb–Scargle periodogram method has been carried out to determine the frequency spectra of vertical wind velocity. From a total of 522 days of observations, the statistics of the spectral slope have been derived and show a dependence on the background wind conditions. It is a general feature that the observed spectra of vertical velocity during active periods (with wind velocity > 10 m s−1) are much steeper than during quiet periods (with wind velocity < 10 m s−1). The distribution of spectral slopes is roughly symmetric with a maximum at −5/3 during active periods, whereas a very asymmetric distribution with a maximum at around −1 is observed during quiet periods. The slope profiles along altitudes reveal a significant height dependence for both conditions, i.e., the spectra become shallower with increasing altitudes in the upper troposphere and maintain roughly a constant slope in the lower stratosphere. With both wind conditions considered together the general spectra are obtained and their slopes are compared with the background horizontal winds. The comparisons show that the observed spectra become steeper with increasing wind velocities under quiet conditions, approach a spectral slope of −5/3 at a wind velocity of 10 m s−1 and then roughly maintain this slope (−5/3) for even stronger winds. Our findings show an overall agreement with previous studies; furthermore, they provide a more complete climatology of frequency spectra of vertical wind velocities under different wind conditions.
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    EUREC4A
    (Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernics Publications, 2021) Stevens, Bjorn; Bony, Sandrine; Farrell, David; Ament, Felix; Blyth, Alan; Fairall, Christopher; Karstensen, Johannes; Quinn, Patricia K.; Speich, Sabrina; Acquistapace, Claudia; Aemisegger, Franziska; Crewell, Susanne; Cronin, Timothy; Cui, Zhiqiang; Cuypers, Yannis; Daley, Alton; Damerell, Gillian M.; Dauhut, Thibaut; Deneke, Hartwig; Desbios, Jean-Philippe; Dörner, Steffen; Albright, Anna Lea; Donner, Sebastian; Douet, Vincent; Drushka, Kyla; Dütsch, Marina; Ehrlich, André; Emanuel, Kerry; Emmanouilidis, Alexandros; Etienne, Jean-Claude; Etienne-Leblanc, Sheryl; Faure, Ghislain; Bellenger, Hugo; Feingold, Graham; Ferrero, Luca; Fix, Andreas; Flamant, Cyrille; Flatau, Piotr Jacek; Foltz, Gregory R.; Forster, Linda; Furtuna, Iulian; Gadian, Alan; Galewsky, Joseph; Bodenschatz, Eberhard; Gallagher, Martin; Gallimore, Peter; Gaston, Cassandra; Gentemann, Chelle; Geyskens, Nicolas; Giez, Andreas; Gollop, John; Gouirand, Isabelle; Gourbeyre, Christophe; de Graaf, Dörte; Caesar, Kathy-Ann; de Groot, Geiske E.; Grosz, Robert; Güttler, Johannes; Gutleben, Manuel; Hall, Kashawn; Harris, George; Helfer, Kevin C.; Henze, Dean; Herbert, Calvert; Holanda, Bruna; Chewitt-Lucas, Rebecca; Ibanez-Landeta, Antonio; Intrieri, Janet; Iyer, Suneil; Julien, Fabrice; Kalesse, Heike; Kazil, Jan; Kellman, Alexander; Kidane, Abiel T.; Kirchner, Ulrike; Klingebiel, Marcus; de Boer, Gijs; Körner, Mareike; Kremper, Leslie Ann; Kretzschmar, Jan; Krüger, Ovid; Kumala, Wojciech; Kurz, Armin; L'Hégaret, Pierre; Labaste, Matthieu; Lachlan-Cope, Tom; Laing, Arlene; Delanoë, Julien; Landschützer, Peter; Lang, Theresa; Lange, Diego; Lange, Ingo; Laplace, Clément; Lavik, Gauke; Laxenaire, Rémi; Le Bihan, Caroline; Leandro, Mason; Lefevre, Nathalie; Denby, Leif; Lena, Marius; Lenschow, Donald; Li, Qiang; Lloyd, Gary; Los, Sebastian; Losi, Niccolò; Lovell, Oscar; Luneau, Christopher; Makuch, Przemyslaw; Malinowski, Szymon; Ewald, Florian; Manta, Gaston; Marinou, Eleni; Marsden, Nicholas; Masson, Sebastien; Maury, Nicolas; Mayer, Bernhard; Mayers-Als, Margarette; Mazel, Christophe; McGeary, Wayne; McWilliams, James C.; Fildier, Benjamin; Mech, Mario; Mehlmann, Melina; Meroni, Agostino Niyonkuru; Mieslinger, Theresa; Minikin, Andreas; Minnett, Peter; Möller, Gregor; Morfa Avalos, Yanmichel; Muller, Caroline; Musat, Ionela; Forde, Marvin; Napoli, Anna; Neuberger, Almuth; Noisel, Christophe; Noone, David; Nordsiek, Freja; Nowak, Jakub L.; Oswald, Lothar; Parker, Douglas J.; Peck, Carolyn; Person, Renaud; George, Geet; Philippi, Miriam; Plueddemann, Albert; Pöhlker, Christopher; Pörtge, Veronika; Pöschl, Ulrich; Pologne, Lawrence; Posyniak, Michał; Prange, Marc; Quiñones Meléndez, Estefanía; Radtke, Jule; Gross, Silke; Ramage, Karim; Reimann, Jens; Renault, Lionel; Reus, Klaus; Reyes, Ashford; Ribbe, Joachim; Ringel, Maximilian; Ritschel, Markus; Rocha, Cesar B.; Rochetin, Nicolas; Hagen, Martin; Röttenbacher, Johannes; Rollo, Callum; Royer, Haley; Sadoulet, Pauline; Saffin, Leo; Sandiford, Sanola; Sandu, Irina; Schäfer, Michael; Schemann, Vera; Schirmacher, Imke; Hausold, Andrea; Schlenczek, Oliver; Schmidt, Jerome; Schröder, Marcel; Schwarzenboeck, Alfons; Sealy, Andrea; Senff, Christoph J.; Serikov, Ilya; Shohan, Samkeyat; Siddle, Elizabeth; Smirnov, Alexander; Heywood, Karen J.; Späth, Florian; Spooner, Branden; Stolla, M. Katharina; Szkółka, Wojciech; de Szoeke, Simon P.; Tarot, Stéphane; Tetoni, Eleni; Thompson, Elizabeth; Thomson, Jim; Tomassini, Lorenzo; Hirsch, Lutz; Totems, Julien; Ubele, Alma Anna; Villiger, Leonie; von Arx, Jan; Wagner, Thomas; Walther, Andi; Webber, Ben; Wendisch, Manfred; Whitehall, Shanice; Wiltshire, Anton; Jacob, Marek; Wing, Allison A.; Wirth, Martin; Wiskandt, Jonathan; Wolf, Kevin; Worbes, Ludwig; Wright, Ethan; Wulfmeyer, Volker; Young, Shanea; Zhang, Chidong; Zhang, Dongxiao; Jansen, Friedhelm; Ziemen, Florian; Zinner, Tobias; Zöger, Martin; Kinne, Stefan; Klocke, Daniel; Kölling, Tobias; Konow, Heike; Lothon, Marie; Mohr, Wiebke; Naumann, Ann Kristin; Nuijens, Louise; Olivier, Léa; Pincus, Robert; Pöhlker, Mira; Reverdin, Gilles; Roberts, Gregory; Schnitt, Sabrina; Schulz, Hauke; Siebesma, A. Pier; Stephan, Claudia Christine; Sullivan, Peter; Touzé-Peiffer, Ludovic; Vial, Jessica; Vogel, Raphaela; Zuidema, Paquita; Alexander, Nicola; Alves, Lyndon; Arixi, Sophian; Asmath, Hamish; Bagheri, Gholamhossein; Baier, Katharina; Bailey, Adriana; Baranowski, Dariusz; Baron, Alexandre; Barrau, Sébastien; Barrett, Paul A.; Batier, Frédéric; Behrendt, Andreas; Bendinger, Arne; Beucher, Florent; Bigorre, Sebastien; Blades, Edmund; Blossey, Peter; Bock, Olivier; Böing, Steven; Bosser, Pierre; Bourras, Denis; Bouruet-Aubertot, Pascale; Bower, Keith; Branellec, Pierre; Branger, Hubert; Brennek, Michal; Brewer, Alan; Brilouet, Pierre-Etienne; Brügmann, Björn; Buehler, Stefan A.; Burke, Elmo; Burton, Ralph; Calmer, Radiance; Canonici, Jean-Christophe; Carton, Xavier; Cato Jr., Gregory; Charles, Jude Andre; Chazette, Patrick; Chen, Yanxu; Chilinski, Michal T.; Choularton, Thomas; Chuang, Patrick; Clarke, Shamal; Coe, Hugh; Cornet, Céline; Coutris, Pierre; Couvreux, Fleur
    The science guiding the EUREC4A campaign and its measurements is presented. EUREC4A comprised roughly 5 weeks of measurements in the downstream winter trades of the North Atlantic – eastward and southeastward of Barbados. Through its ability to characterize processes operating across a wide range of scales, EUREC4A marked a turning point in our ability to observationally study factors influencing clouds in the trades, how they will respond to warming, and their link to other components of the earth system, such as upper-ocean processes or the life cycle of particulate matter. This characterization was made possible by thousands (2500) of sondes distributed to measure circulations on meso- (200 km) and larger (500 km) scales, roughly 400 h of flight time by four heavily instrumented research aircraft; four global-class research vessels; an advanced ground-based cloud observatory; scores of autonomous observing platforms operating in the upper ocean (nearly 10 000 profiles), lower atmosphere (continuous profiling), and along the air–sea interface; a network of water stable isotopologue measurements; targeted tasking of satellite remote sensing; and modeling with a new generation of weather and climate models. In addition to providing an outline of the novel measurements and their composition into a unified and coordinated campaign, the six distinct scientific facets that EUREC4A explored – from North Brazil Current rings to turbulence-induced clustering of cloud droplets and its influence on warm-rain formation – are presented along with an overview of EUREC4A's outreach activities, environmental impact, and guidelines for scientific practice. Track data for all platforms are standardized and accessible at https://doi.org/10.25326/165 (Stevens, 2021), and a film documenting the campaign is provided as a video supplement.