Convective clouds play an important role in the global energy balance through vertical transport and a redistribution of water and energy. Accurately simulating convective clouds in state-of-the-art models remains extremely challenging, even for fundamental convective characteristics such as the diurnal cycle, strength, and depth of convection. In this session, we will highlight research aimed at improving our understanding of fundamental processes of shallow and deep convection including, but not limited to kinematics, microphysics, entrainment and detrainment, turbulent mixing, precipitation, and cold pool processes and their interactions with environmental thermodynamics and dynamics, radiation, and aerosols. The session invites theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that advance the process-level understanding of convection and its representation in models.

• AMS: American Meteorological Society -