A046
Convection Processes and Their Environmental and Aerosol Interactions: Theory, Observation, and Modeling
Convection Processes and Their Environmental and Aerosol Interactions: Theory, Observation, and Modeling
Session ID#: 156817
Session Description:
Convective clouds play an important role in the global energy balance through vertical transport and their 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, cold pool processes and their interactions with environmental thermodynamics and dynamics, radiation, aerosols and the underlying surface. The session invites theoretical, observational, experimental, machine learning, and modeling studies that advance the process-level understanding of convection and its representation in models.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- AMS: American Meteorological Society -
Index Terms:
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3371 Tropical convection [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Dié WANG, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Conveners: Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States and Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs, Livermore, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Dié WANG, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
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