Shadow effects of shallow convective clouds on the atmospheric boundary layer including feedbacks on the cloud field
Responsible: Tobias Gronemeier?
Project type: master thesis
Duration: 01/11/2012-31/03/2014

In a former master thesis at the PALM group it was shown that cloud shadows do affect the atmospheric boundary layer, but the used cloud definition was heavily idealised so that clouds were only defined by upwind velocity. In this master thesis the cloud definition will be more realistic due to a simulated liquid boundary layer and a cloud definition based on the liquid water content. To investigate the feedbacks of cloud shadows on the cloud field statistics of the clouds calculated after a method of Dawe and Austin (2012) will be used.