Observed Links Between Mesoscale Organization of Deep Convection and Variations in Tropical Clouds and the Related Radiative Heating

Ni Dai1, Hui Su2, J David Neelin3, Mengxi Wu4 and Yi-Hung Kuo3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States