Phys.org  September 13, 2022 The persistent Southern Ocean (SO) shortwave radiation causes biases in climate models. An international team of researchers (Australia, USA – University of Oklahoma) investigated and characterized cloud and precipitation processes over the Southern Ocean from synoptic to micro scales using the observations collected during the Clouds Aerosols Precipitation Radiation and atmospheric Composition Over the Southern Ocean 2016 and 2018 field campaigns. The cloud and precipitation regimes corresponded to the seven thermodynamic clusters established using a K-means clustering technique, while less distinctions were evident using the cyclone and (cold) front compositing methods. Cloud radar and disdrometer data […]