On the imprint of the mesoscale organization of tradewind clouds at cloud base and below

<p><span>Trade-wind clouds </span><span>can </span><span>exhibit </span><span>different</span><span> patterns of mesoscale organization. These patterns were observed during the EUREC</span>^{<span>4</span>}<span>A </span><span>(Elucidating the role of cloud-circulation coupling in climate) </span><span>field campaign that took place in Jan-Feb 2020 over the western tropical Atlantic near Barbados: </span><span>w</span><span>hile the HALO aircraft </span><span>was observing clouds from</span> <span>above</span><span> and </span><span>was </span><span>characteri</span><span>z</span><span>ing</span> <span>the </span><span>large-scale</span><span> environment</span> <span>with</span><span> dropsondes</span><span>, the ATR-42 research aircraft was flying </span><span>in</span><span> the </span><span>lower troposphere</span><span>,</span> <span>characteriz</span><span>ing</span><span> cloud</span><span>s </span><span>and turbulence </span><span>with horizontal radar-lidar measurements and in-situ </span><span>probes and </span><span>sensors</span><span>. </span><span>By</span><span> analyz</span><span>ing</span> <span>these data </span><span>for different cloud patterns</span><span>, </span><span>we</span> <span>investigate the </span><span>extent to which the </span><span>cloud</span><span> organization </span><span>i</span><span>s imprinted </span><span>in</span><span> cloud-base </span><span>properties </span><span>and</span><span> subcloud-layer </span><span>heterogeneities</span><span>. </span><span>The implications of our findings for understanding the roots of the mesoscale organization </span><span>of tradewind clouds</span><span> will be discussed.</span></p>