Bridging current indirect and future direct estimates of convective mass flux toward quantifying the role of convective cores on anvil area time tendencies

Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, United States, Jingbo Wu, Columbia University, New York City, United States, Scott E Giangrande, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Rémy Roca, CNRS, LEGOS, Toulouse, France, Thomas Fiolleau, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales-CNRS, Toulouse, France and Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States