Gauging the boundary layer vs free tropospheric thermodynamic contributions to convective onset in GCMs using GNSS satellite radio occultation (RO) retrievals

Yi-Hung Kuo1, Ramon Padulles2, J David Neelin1, Joe Turk3, Manuel de la Torre-Juárez3, Chi O Ao4 and Svetla M Hristova-Veleva4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States