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More of Earth’s surface is covered by stratocumulus clouds than by any other cloud type making them extremely important for Earth’s energy balance, primarily through their reflection of solar radiation. They are generally thin clouds, typically occupying the upper few hundred meters of the planetary boundary layer (PBL), and they preferably occur in shallow PBLs that are readily coupled by turbulent mixing to the surface moisture supply. Thus, stratocumuli favor conditions of strong lower-tropospheric stability, large-scale subsidence, and a ready supply of surface moisture; therefore, they are common over the cooler regions of subtropical and midlatitude oceans where their coverage can exceed 50% in the annual mean. Convective instability in stratocumulus clouds is driven primarily by the emission of thermal infrared radiation from near the cloud tops and the resulting turbulence circulations are enhanced by latent heating in updrafts and cooling in downdrafts. Turbulent eddies and evaporative cooling drives entrainment at the top of the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer (STBL), which is stronger than it would be in the absence of cloud, and this tends to result in a deepening of the STBL over time. Many stratocumulus clouds produce some drizzle through the collision–coalescence process, but thicker clouds drizzle more readily, which can lead to changes in the dynamics of the STBL that favor increased mesoscale variability, stratification of the STBL, and in some cases cloud breakup. Feedbacks between radiative cooling, precipitation formation, turbulence, and entrainment help to regulate stratocumulus. Although stratocumulus is arguably the most well-understood cloud type, it continues to challenge understanding. Indeed, recent field studies demonstrate that marine stratocumulus precipitate more strongly, and entrain less, than was previously thought, and display an organizational complexity much larger than previously imagined. Stratocumulus clouds break up as the STBL deepens and it becomes more difficult to maintain buoyant production of turbulence through the entire depth of the STBL.</jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Stratocumulus cloud properties are sensitive to the concentration of aerosol particles and therefore anthropogenic pollution. For a given cloud thickness, polluted clouds tend to produce more numerous and smaller cloud droplets, greater cloud albedo, and drizzle suppression. In addition, cloud droplet size also affects the time scale for evaporation–entrainment interactions and sedimentation rate, which together with precipitation changes can affect turbulence and entrainment. Aerosols are themselves strongly modified by physical processes in stratocumuli, and these two-way interactions may be a key driver of aerosol concentrations over the remote oceans. Aerosol–stratocumulus interactions are therefore one of the most challenging frontiers in cloud–climate research. Low-cloud feedbacks are also a leading cause of uncertainty in future climate prediction because even small changes in cloud coverage and thickness have a major impact on the radiation budget. Stratocumuli remain challenging to represent in climate models since their controlling processes occur on such small scales. A better understanding of stratocumulus dynamics, particularly entrainment processes and mesoscale variability, will be required to constrain these feedbacks.</jats:p>\n               <jats:p>CONTENTS</jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Introduction...2 Climatology of stratocumulus...4 Annual mean...4 Temporal variability...6 Spatial scales of organization1...0 The stratocumulus-topped boundary layer...11 Vertical structure of the STBL...11 Liquid water...14 Entrainment interfacial layer...15 Physical processes controlling stratocumulus...16 Radiative driving of stratocumulus...16 Turbulence...21 Surface fluxes...24 Entrainment...25 Precipitation...26 Microphysics...27 Cloud droplet concentration and controlling factors...27 Microphysics of precipitation formation...29 Interactions between physical processes...32 Maintenance and regulating feedbacks...32 Microphysical–macrophysical interactions...34 Interactions between the STBL and large-scale meteorology...35 Formation...36 Dissipation and transition to other cloud types...36 Summary...40</jats:p>"}]}],"creator":[{"@id":"https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1383670319573264128","@type":"Researcher","foaf:name":[{"@value":"Robert Wood"}],"jpcoar:affiliationName":[{"@value":"University of Washington, Seattle, Washington"}]}],"publication":{"publicationIdentifier":[{"@type":"PISSN","@value":"00270644"},{"@type":"EISSN","@value":"15200493"}],"prism:publicationName":[{"@value":"Monthly Weather Review"}],"dc:publisher":[{"@value":"American Meteorological Society"}],"prism:publicationDate":"2012-08-01","prism:volume":"140","prism:number":"8","prism:startingPage":"2373","prism:endingPage":"2423"},"reviewed":"false","url":[{"@id":"http://journals.ametsoc.org/mwr/article-pdf/140/8/2373/4279106/mwr-d-11-00121_1.pdf"}],"createdAt":"2012-02-09","modifiedAt":"2020-12-07","relatedProduct":[{"@id":"https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1360009142587132160","@type":"Article","resourceType":"学術雑誌論文(journal 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