Layer cloud over Southern England
作者:
R. F. Jones,
期刊:
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
(WILEY Available online 1961)
卷期:
Volume 87,
issue 371
页码: 65-71
ISSN:0035-9009
年代: 1961
DOI:10.1002/qj.49708737108
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Abstract599 morning weather reconnaissance flights from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, over a period of approximately four years have been examined to determine the frequency of occurrence and thickness of layer cloud over Southern England. The chance of encountering 4/8 or more layer cloud in any kilometre height range decreased with height from about 1 in 2 near the surface to about 1 in 50 at a height of 12 km. Cloud layers when encountered were more likely to exceed one or two kilometres depth in the upper troposphere than in the lower but the frequency of encountering a layer more than 1/12 km deep was about 7 to 8 per cent at all heights. About 1 in 9 of all flights encountered cloud above the melting level more than 3 km thick. An examination of clouds in the temperature band 0 to – 15°C suggested that conditions suitable for severe clear ice formation on some aircraft might be encountered on about one per cent of flights. The same examination suggests that seeding of layer clouds by silver‐iodide smokes should produce some detectable modification of the cloud sheet on about 8 days a
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