Local Environmental Controls on the Early Stages of Convective Cloud Development Over the Southeast U.S
Nicolas Leitmann-Niimi1, Gregory Elsaesser1, Scott Giangrande2, Jingbo Wu3, John Robert Mecikalski4, Xu Liu5, Wan Wu5, Bill Irion6, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD7, Chongai Kuang7 and John M Peters8, (1)Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)Columbia University, New York City, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (8)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States