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Comparison of the coarse‐grained mean cloud volume and mean cloud area fraction profiles for (a) NARVAL and (b) QUBICC. In a given grid cell, the cloud volume fraction is never greater than the cloud area fraction. Close to the surface, the grid cell thickness and thus also the vertical sub‐grid variability of clouds is small. There it follows that the cloud area fraction is approximately equal to the cloud volume fraction.
