Using 150 buoy-years of tropical mooring data, rain is found to often produce destabilizing (cooling) buoyancy fluxes during light rain and at night, while heavy rain typically stabilizes the upper ocean.
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Does rainfall create buoyant forcing at the ocean surface?
Using 150 buoy-years of tropical mooring data, rain is found to often produce destabilizing (cooling) buoyancy fluxes during light rain and at night, while heavy rain typically stabilizes the upper ocean.