Stratocumulus radiative effect, multiple equilibria of the well-mixed boundary layer and transition to shallow convection

What is it about?

Two types of boundary layer clouds are observed in the tropics: shallow cumulus and stratocumulus clouds. This work ahows that they correspond to two distinct equilibria of the boundary layer, and that the transition from stratocumulus to cumulus is a transition between the basin of attraction of these two equilibria.

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