Comparing Convective Self-Aggregation in Idealized Models to Observed Moist Static Energy Variability near the Equator

Tom Beucler, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, MA, United States; Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Tristan Abbott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Timothy Cronin, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Mike S Pritchard, University California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States