Leveraging realistic large-eddy simulations to better understand the dynamics driving downdrafts in deep convection
Jake Mulholland1, James Marquis2, Enoch Jo3, Zhe Feng2, Adam Varble2, John M Peters4, Hugh Morrison5, Christopher John Nowotarski6, Erik Nielsen6 and Gregory Elsaesser7, (1)University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (5)NSF NCAR, MMM Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States, (7)Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States