Heus, T. (author), Jonker, H.J.J. (author), Van den Akker, H.E.A. (author), Griffith, E.J. (author), Koutek, M. (author), Post, F.H. (author) In this study, a new method is developed to investigate the entire life cycle of shallow cumuli in large eddy simulations. Although trained observers have no problem in distinguishing the different life stages of a cloud, this process proves difficult to automate, because cloud-splitting and cloud-merging events complicate the distinction...
journal article 2009
