Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover

G Duveiller, F Filipponi, A Ceglar, J Bojanowski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Forests play a key role in humanity's current challenge to mitigate climate change thanks to
their capacity to sequester carbon. Preserving and expanding forest cover is considered …

Regional dry-season climate changes due to three decades of Amazonian deforestation

J Khanna, D Medvigy, S Fueglistaler… - Nature Climate Change, 2017 - nature.com
More than 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been cleared in the past three decades,
triggering important hydroclimatic changes,,,,,. Small-scale (a few kilometres) deforestation …

Formulation of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) and overview of its applications

T Heus, CC van Heerwaarden… - Geoscientific Model …, 2010 - gmd.copernicus.org
The current version of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) is presented.
DALES is a large-eddy simulation code designed for studies of the physics of the …

[HTML][HTML] Surface and atmospheric controls on the onset of moist convection over land

P Gentine, AAM Holtslag… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Surface and Atmospheric Controls on the Onset of Moist Convection over Land in: Journal
of Hydrometeorology Volume 14 Issue 5 (2013) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of land surface heterogeneities on cloud size development

M Rieck, C Hohenegger… - Monthly Weather …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study analyzes the effects of land surface heterogeneities at various horizontal scales
on the transition from shallow to deep convection and on the cloud size distribution. An …

Examining the expansion of Urban Heat Island effect in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area and its vicinity using multi-temporal MODIS satellite data

J Mandal, PP Patel, S Samanta - Advances in Space Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomena in the Kolkata Metropolitan
Area (KMA) region and its surrounding rural areas based on MODIS satellite data of the last …

Large-eddy simulations of surface heterogeneity effects on the convective boundary layer during the LITFASS-2003 experiment

B Maronga, S Raasch - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2013 - Springer
We investigate the impact of observed surface heterogeneities during the LITFASS-2003
experiment on the convective boundary layer (CBL). Large-eddy simulations (LES), driven …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Atmospheric boundary layer: Integrating air chemistry and land interactions

JVG De Arellano, CC van Heerwaarden… - 2015 - books.google.com
Based on more than twenty years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano
and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the …

The effect of land surface heterogeneity and background wind on shallow cumulus clouds and the transition to deeper convection

JM Lee, Y Zhang, SA Klein - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Idealized large-eddy simulations (LESs) with prescribed heterogeneous land surface heat
fluxes are performed to study the impact of the heterogeneity length scale and background …