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cloud-top entrainment instability: a standalone construct

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Atmospheric science

the hypothesized runaway in which evaporative cooling of dry air mixed in at a stratocumulus top drives more mixing and breaks up the cloud deck.

In atmospheric science, cloud-top entrainment instability refers to the hypothesized runaway in which evaporative cooling of dry air mixed in at a stratocumulus top drives more mixing and breaks up the cloud deck. This meaning comes from Deardorff (1980) in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.[1]

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References

Deardorff, J. W. (1980). Cloud Top Entrainment Instability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 37(1), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1980)037<0131:ctei>2.0.co;2

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