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Session Proposal: Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate (AGU25)

A028
Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate

Session ID#: 246754

Session Description:
Despite the critical role convection plays in the climate system, many uncertainties remain owing to the wide variety of processes and scales involved. Processes on the smallest scales of turbulence and microphysics connect through dynamics and radiation to both weather and climate, locally through precipitation and hazardous weather, and more broadly through feedbacks on global circulations and the climate system. Improving our understanding of clouds and convection at a process level, their representation in large-scale models, and the ability to forecast related hazards remains an outstanding challenge. This session aims to explore aspects of boundary layer, shallow, and deep convective clouds, considering fundamental processes as well as links to topics such as self-aggregation, land surface interactions, and their role in weather and climate. We invite presentations of both observational and modeling studies.
Index Terms:

3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States
Conveners:  Yang Tian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Rachel L Storer, University of California, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States and Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Atmospheric Conditions on the West Coast of India During the Dry and Wet Spells event in July 2024 (1852977)
Anupama Sahoo, Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services, Ocean Observation Network (OON), Ministry of Earth Sciences, Hyderabad, India and Girishkumar M S, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad, India
 
Internal Oscillations of Tropical Mesoscale Convective Disturbances (1859682)
Bolei Yang, Nanjing University, Nanjing-Helsinki Institute, Nanjing, China, William R Boos, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Zhe-Min Tan, Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China and Ji Nie, Peking University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Cloud-Cloud Interactions and Their Roles in the Development of Convective Cloud Systems (1867188)
Jingyi Chen1, Chuang Xu2, Chunsong Lu3, Samson M Hagos4, Xiaoyue Zhang2, Heng Xiao5, Zhe Feng4 and Jerome Fast6, (1)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)Nanjing Univerisity of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
 
Vertical motion estimates in tropical cirrus clouds with early observations from EarthCARE (Invited) (1885437)
Hirohiko Masunaga, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Learning the Limits: Causal Discovery Model Links Environment to Convective Cloud Detrainment (1885996)
Dié WANG1, Simon Lee2, Tao Zhang3, Christian P Lackner4, Daniel J Kirshbaum5 and Michael P Jensen1, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (5)McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
Comparisons of cloud top heights derived from lidar and radar observations and levels of neutral buoyancy (1895179)
Seiji Kato1, David P Duda2, Kuan-Man Xu1, Seung-Hee Ham3, Sunny Sun-Mack4, Yan Chen4 and Walter F Miller5, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, (5)ADNET Systems Inc., Bathesda, United States
 
The offshore propagation of tropical convection: a case of dynamics vs. thermodynamic forcing (1897304)
Mingyue Tang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States and Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States
 
Observed dynamic and radiative characteristics of tropical deep convective and anvil clouds for different upper-tropospheric stabilities (1908229)
Dea Octarina, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan and Hirohiko Masunaga, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Role of soil moisture gradients in favouring mesoscale convective systems in East China (1910979)
Yutong Lu1,2, John Marsham3, Douglas J Parker4, Cornelia Klein5, Christopher Taylor6, Juan Fang1 and Jianping Tang1, (1)Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, ICAS, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)Centre for Climate and Cryosphere University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (6)UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom
 
The Response of Downdrafts in Deep Convection to a Future Climate Scenario (1914474)
Quinlan Mulhern and John M Peters, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
 
Synoptic Modulation of the West African Coastal Atmosphere and Mesoscale Convective Systems (1920575)
Naoko Sakaeda1, Shun-Nan Wu2, Rosimar Rios-Berrios3, Elinor R Martin4, Kelly Núñez Ocasio3, Kristopher M Bedka5, Margaret Hollis6, Bjorn Lambrigtsen7, Amin R Nehrir8, Quinton Lawton9, Manikandan Rajagopal10, Mathias M Schreier11 and Sun Wong12, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (9)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Utah, Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, (11)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
The diurnal cycle of precipitation efficiency in tropical deep convective clouds estimated from satellite data (1920708)
Amel Derras-Chouk, Columbia University, New York, United States, Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States and Johnny Luo, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
 
Evaluating interactive SST feedbacks to convective self-aggregation in channel domain RCE simulations coupled to a slab ocean model (1927021)
Kyle Shackelford, Colorado State University Fort Collins, United States, Charlotte A DeMott, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Prof. Peter Jan van Leeuwen, MSc PhD, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Process-level Assessment of Cloud Feedbacks in SCREAM Global Storm Resolving Model (1930057)
Li-Wei Chao1, Mark D Zelinka1, Christopher Terai1, Hassan Beydoun1, Benjamin R Hillman2, Noel D Keen3, Peter Martin Caldwell1 and Stephen A Klein1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Investigating how Different Large-Scale Environmental Conditions impact the Shallow-to-Deep Transition of Convection (1934844)
Nathanael Zhixin Wong1, Anurup Naskar1 and Sara Shamekh2, (1)New York University, CAOS, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States, (2)New York University, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States
 
Characterizing Convective Storm Variability Across Distinct Synoptic-Scale Sea Breeze Regimes in Florida (1937287)
Ronald Odongo1, Yixin Wen2, Weikang Qian1 and Jesse Kisembe1, (1)University of Florida, Department of Geography, Gainesville, United States, (2)University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
Mean Cold Pool Size of Quasi-equilibrium Convection (1951068)
Hao FU, Stanford University, Stanford, United States; Nanjing University, School of the Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China and Morgan E O'Neill, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
 
An Assessment of Atmospheric Convection Trends Over India Using Radiosonde Derived CAPE and Other Proxies (1951639)
Piyush Ojha1, amit Kumar Mishra2, Saloni Sharma2, Aniket Gupta3 and Krishan Kumar2, (1)Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Science, New Delhi, India, (2)Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
 
Mass Flux Across Cloud Lifecycles in LES: Informing Convection Parameterisation via Tracking Analysis (1954107)
Jure Zgubic1, Michael Herzog1 and Vishnu Nair2, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Evaluating Differences in Environmental Conditions Supporting Isolated Deep Convection vs Organized Mesoscale Convective Systems (1963916)
Rebecca Weinstein1, Kathleen A. Schiro2, Wei-Ming Tsai3, Laura Paccini4, Fiaz Ahmed5 and J David Neelin3, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
 
Investigating the Impacts of Convective Downdraft Outflow on Boundary Layer Aerosol and Thermodynamic Properties during TRACER (1968717)
Michael P Jensen1, Michael Dalsin2, Aryeh J Drager3, Min Deng1, Dié WANG1, Jordan Newton4, Aryca'Rae Williams4, Paul J. Walter5, Mark Harvey4, Bruce Prince4 and Daniel Vrinceanu4, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Department of Physics, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Texas Southern University, Houston, United States, (5)St. Edward's University, Austin, United States
 
Scientific Insights from Novel Radar Scan Strategies and Deep Convection Tracking over Houston, Texas (1972418)
Siddhant Gupta1, Dié WANG2, Scott Giangrande3, Michael P Jensen2, Adam Theisen1 and Nicki Linn Hickmon1, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States
 
Improved Understanding of Drivers of Upper-Level Updrafts and their Relationship to Supercell Thunderstorm Overshooting Tops (1976019)
Melinda T Berman, Robert Jeffrey Trapp and Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
 
Deep convection in anelastic convective entity (ACE) and cloud-resolving models: bypassing strong surface inhibition with nonlocal flow-buoyancy interaction (1979309)
J David Neelin1, Yi-Hung Kuo1, Kuan-Ting Kuo2 and Chien-ming Wu3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Cold Pool Dissipation and Boundary Layer Recovery (1980702)
Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States and Mingyue Tang, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States
 
An analytic approximation for subcloud-layer precipitation efficiency (Invited) (1983347)
Timothy Cronin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Jas Hollis, Yale University, New Haven, United States
 
How convective mass flux responds to environmental humidity (1988157)
Seth Seidel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nathan Arnold, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States and Brandon Wolding, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Precipitation Recycling in the Subtropical Hawaiian Islands (1988718)
Leandro Viscardi, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States and Alison D Nugent, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States
 
Cold surge vortices, heavy rains, and the MJO: A study in the Maritime Continent (1994427)
Cathrene Lagare1, Junshi Ito1, Giuseppe Torri2 and Takeshi Yamazaki1, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States
 
Local Environmental Controls on the Early Stages of Convective Cloud Development Over the Southeast U.S (2000312)
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
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