A013
Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate
Session ID#: 85472
Session Description:
In spite of the important 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 self-aggregation, land surface interactions, and their role in weather and climate. We invite presentations of both observational and modeling studies (including those related to the Radiative-Convective Equilbrium Model Intercomparison Project)
Index Terms:
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners: Rachel L Storer, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States and Yang Tian, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Primary Liaison: Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
The interaction of tropical convection with its environment - new observational insights (Invited) (486416)
Christian Jakob1, Valentin Louf2, Alessandro Savazzi3, Alain Protat2, Pier Siebesma3 and Louise Nuijens3, (1)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, (3)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Role of extreme deep convection over land on recent tropical change (495935)
Kunihiko Kodera, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, Nawo Eguchi, Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, Rei Ueyama, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Leonhard Pfister, NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Beatraiz M. Funatsu, Université Rennes 2, LETG-Rennes COSTEL, Rennes, France and Chantal Claud, Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau, France
Transient aggregation of convection: Observed behavior and underlying processes (504231)
Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University. Furo-cho Chikusa-ku., Nagoya, Japan, Christopher Holloway, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Hironari Kanamori, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Sandrine Bony, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France and Thorwald Hendrik Matthias Stein, University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Large-scale Characteristics of tropical convective systems viewed by MODIS and IMERG (507798)
Daeho Jin, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dongmin Lee, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Jackson Tan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
UNDERSTANDING OF CLOUD AND CONVECTION PROCESSES BASED ON OBSERVATION IMPROVES CLIMATE MODEL FIDELITY. (509935)
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay1, R. P. M. Murli Krishna1, Malay Ganai2, Snehlata Tirkey3, Tanmoy Goswami3, Sahadat Sarkar, Shilpa Malviya3 and Kumar Roy3, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Parameterization and Analysis, Pune, India, (2)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (3)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Parameterization and Analyses, Pune, India
Links Between Vertical Distribution of Moisture and Convective Frequency and Intensity in the Amazon Rain Forest (513770)
Jaya Khanna, National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jatni, India, Benjamin R Lintner, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, David K Adams, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico City, Mexico and Ludmila Silva, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Brazil
Analysis Of Several Subtropical Cyclones By Means Of The High-Resolution HARMONIE-AROME Model (517303)
Lara Quitián Hernández1, Daniel Santos-Muñoz2, Juan Jesús González Alemán3, Javier Diaz-Fernandez4, Sergio Fernández-González2, Pedro Bolgiani4, Mariano Sastre5, Francisco Valero6 and Maria Luisa Martin7, (1)Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (2)State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), Leonardo Prieto Castro, 8. 28040 Madrid. Spain., Madrid, Spain, (3)UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha), Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, Spain, (4)Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences. Faculty of Physics. Complutense University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain., Madrid, Spain, (5)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica, Madrid, Spain, (6)Dpto. Astrofísica y Física de la Atmósfera. Facultad de Física. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ciudad Universitaria s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain., Madrid, Spain, (7)Dpto. Matemática Aplicada. E. de Ingeniería Informática. Universidad de Valladolid. Pza. Alto de los Leones, 1. 40005 Segovia. Spain., Segovia, Spain
The Role of the Boundary Layer in Convective Self-Aggregation Illustrated by a New Diagnostic Framework of Moist Static Energy (VRMSE) (533889)
Lin Yao, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Da Yang, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States and Zhe-Min Tan, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Comparing Convective Self-Aggregation in Idealized Models to Observed Moist Static Energy Variability near the Equator (545264)
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
Deep Convective Evolution from Shallow Clouds over the Congo and Amazon Rainforests (547505)
Sudip Chakraborty, Arcadia, CA, United States, Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hui Su, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rong Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
A Unified View of Breaks in Indian, South American and North American Monsoons (548879)
Govardhan Dandu, University of Hyderabad, Center for Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Hyderabad, India, Ashok Karumuri, University of Hyderabad, University Centre for Earth and Space Sciences (UCESS), Hyderabad, India and Vadlamudi brahmananda Rao
Tropical Deep Convective Morphology in the Different Thermodynamic and Aerosol Environments of CAMP2Ex and PISTON (552100)
Sean William Freeman1, Susan C van den Heever1, Jeffrey S. Reid2 and Derek J Posselt3, (1)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Marine Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Environmental modulation of the strength of cloud-radiation-precipitation coupling (563638)
Anita D Rapp1, Lu Sun1, Kevin Mitchell Smalley1 and Tristan L'Ecuyer2, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Influence of stratospheric dynamics on deep convection and equatorial waves (570838)
Nawo Eguchi, Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan, Tomoe Nasuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan and Kunihiko Kodera, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
Atmospheric Thermodynamic Changes Under Global Warming (571925)
Jiao Chen, Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, Aiguo Dai, University at Albany, SUNY, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Yaocun Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Kristen Rasmussen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of One of the Rainiest Spots on Earth (585767)
John Mejia, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, Leidy Johanna Yepes, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, German Poveda, Univ Natl Colombia, Medellin, Colombia and Manuel D Zuluaga, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,, Medellin, Colombia
The influences of large scale forcing on the diurnal cycle of rainfall over Darwin: observations and modelling. (586489)
Robert Clyde Jackson1, Scott M Collis1, Yan Feng2, Valentin Louf3, Alain Protat3, Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson4, Brenda Dolan5, Scott W Powell6, Scott E Giangrande7 and Robert J. Warren II8, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, (3)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (8)SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
A Multidecadal Satellite Record of Water Vapor, Temperature and Clouds (593629)
Eric J Fetzer1, Brian H Kahn2, Qing Yue1, Sun Wong1, Hook Hua1 and Bjorn Lambrigtsen3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
Tropical deep convection and its relation to cloud and moisture vertical structures in A-Train observations and CMIP6 (595258)
Kathleen A. Schiro1, Hui Su2, Jonathan H. Jiang1 and Gregory Elsaesser3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Columbia University/NASA GISS, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States
Mechanisms Controlling Rainfall over Idealized Tropical Islands in Radiative Convective Equilibrium (596299)
Martin Velez-Pardo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Timothy Cronin, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Peter H Molnar, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Deep convective cloud system size and structure: advances toward a new near-global database for linking convective cloud systems to aerosols, thermodynamics and circulation (600025)
Eric M Wilcox, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Tianle Yuan, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Hua Song, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
The Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall and Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves over the Maritime Continent (Invited) (614778)
Naoko Sakaeda, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Juliana Dias, PSD ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and George N Kiladis, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Characterizing the multi-scale variations of tropical convective clouds with multi-satellite data fusion (617259)
Kang Yang, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Zhien Wang, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Min Deng, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States
Moisture Controls on the Behavior of Simulated Tropical Deep Convection (619134)
Rachel L Storer, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Kathleen Shiro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles, United States and Derek J Posselt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
On the Choco Low-level Jet and gravity waves over the rainiest place on Earth: Observations and Simulations during CHOCO-JEX (624381)
Leidy Johanna Yepes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, John Mejia, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, German Poveda, Univ Natl Colombia, Medellin, Colombia and Brian E Mapes, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, FL, UNITED STATES
Observed dynamic and thermodynamic characteristics of deep convection over Central Amazon for the 2019 wet season (624752)
Ivette Hernandez Banos1, Luiz Sapucci2, Thiago Biscaro3 and Renato Galante Negri3, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Graduate Course in Meteorology, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, CPTEC/DMD, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, CPTEC/DIDSA, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil
Microphysical Characteristics and Types of Precipitation for Different Seasons over North Taiwan (630104)
Pay-Liam Lin, National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Tao-Yuan City, Taiwan, Meng-Tze Lee, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Jhongli, Taiwan, Wei-Yu Chang, National Central University, DEpartment of Atmospheric Sciences, Tao-Yuan City, Taiwan, Balaji Kumar Seela, National Central University, TIGP Program, Tao-Yuan City, Taiwan and Janapati Jayalakshmi, National Central University, Departemnt of Atmospheric Sciences, Tao-Yuan City, Taiwan
Cold Pools and the Organization of Tropical Convection in Global Cloud-System Resolving Simulations (630874)
Steven K Krueger, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Marat Khairoutdinov, Stony Brook University, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Object-oriented Composite Analysis of Warm-sector Rainfall in North China (632505)
Jiaolan Fu, Beijing, Beijing, China, Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States and Timothy Hewson, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Forecast Department, Reading, United Kingdom
Can shifting cloud radiative effects influence tropical stratification changes? (634427)
Timothy M Merlis, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Ying Li, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Allison A Wing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
