95 th AMS Annual Meeting 13 th Symposium on the Coastal Environment stal clouds along northern Chile: climatology and t Ricardo C. Muñoz Dept. Geophysics, University of Chile Juan Quintana Chilean National Weather Service (DMC) Mark Falvey Dept. Geophysics, University of Chile Acknowledgment: Partial funding by Project Fondecyt-Chile
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95th AMS Annual Meeting13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Coastal clouds along northern Chile: climatology and trends
Ricardo C. MuñozDept. Geophysics, University of Chile
Juan QuintanaChilean National Weather Service (DMC)
Mark FalveyDept. Geophysics, University of Chile
Acknowledgment: Partial funding by Project Fondecyt-Chile 1130111
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Key geographic/climate elements:
• Andes Cordillera (Z>5000 m)• Atacama Desert• SE Pacific Anticyclone• Cold Chile-Peru surface current• Extensive Sc cloud layer
from: www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nexsat-bin/
taken from Mechoso et al., BAMS, 2014.
Importance of SE Pacific Sc clouds:
• local: coastal clouds affect transport and local weather• global: impact in Earth´s radiation budget (e.g. Exp. VOCALS-REx 2008)
Objective of this presentation:
• to document climatology and trends of coastal clouds based on long-term databases: