Quantifying the Upscale Effects of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Implications to Model Biases in Large-Scale Circulation
Koichi Sakaguchi1, Zhe Feng1, Jian Lu1, L Ruby Leung2, Jihyeon Jang3, Colin M Zarzycki4 and Robert Houze5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States