A Global Satellite and MERRA-2 Perspective of the Role of Planetary Boundary Layer Thermodynamics on the Lifetime of Deep Convective Systems

Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, Thomas Fiolleau, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales-CNRS, Toulouse, France, Rémy Roca, CNRS, LEGOS, Toulouse, France and Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States