Stormy seas at Macquarie Island
Scientists believe that the clouds themselves over the Southern Ocean may be unique. Southern Ocean clouds appear to have more supercooled water than Northern Hemisphere clouds; this may be due to a lack of aerosol (particles on which cloud droplets form) in this remote region.
The purpose of the 2016-2018 Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE) campaign was to make observations of the surface broadband radiative fluxes in combination with other measurements useful in characterizing cloud and aerosol properties.
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Image courtesy of Jeff Aquilina, ARM project technician, Australian Bureau of Meteorology.