A044
Convection in the Coming Decade of Earth Observations from Space

Session ID#: 162312

Session Description:
Life on Earth is fundamentally linked to convective storms, from the fresh water they supply to the extreme weather they generate.  In spite of the fundamental role of convective storms, our understanding of storm processes is rudimentary, and there are continued challenges in numerical modeling and prediction. In response to these challenges, the coming decade will feature a number of new space-borne missions specifically focused on improving our understanding of convective processes, evolution, and outcomes. This session focuses on the scientific understanding of deep convection, introduces new measurement expected in the decade and how the new measurements will target improved knowledge of convective processes. Abstracts are sought that address: 1) the aspects of deep convection that are as yet not understood, and 2) how current and future satellite missions observe convection.
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3371 Tropical convection [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Derek J Posselt, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ziad S Haddad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kristen Rasmussen, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Graeme L Stephens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Deep Convection as Inferred From the C2OMODO Concept of a Tandem of Microwave Radiometers (1047681)
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau and Franck Auguste, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
 
Understanding the Impact of the Lower Stratospheric Thermodynamic Environment on Observed Overshooting Top Characteristics (1091610)
Melinda T Berman, Robert Jeffrey Trapp, Stephen W Nesbitt, Larry Di Girolamo, Yulan Hong and Edward C Wolff IV, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
 
What knowledge gaps related to convective cloud-scale dynamics and microphysics should we expect to fill with the new spaceborne missions? (1101527)
Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, Alessandro Battaglia, Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, Turin, Italy, Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Sue van den Heever, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, United States
 
High-Resolution C-band Radar Observations of Convective Cores (1117783)
Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Kristen Lani Rasmussen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Edward P Luke, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States and Bernat P Treserras, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
 
The NASA INCUS Mission (1140753)
Susan C van den Heever1, Ziad S Haddad2, Simone Tanelli3, Graeme L Stephens3, Derek J Posselt4, Yunjin Kim5, Kristen Rasmussen6, Shannon T. Brown7, Scott A Braun8, Brenda Dolan9, Sean William Freeman1, Leah D Grant6, Pavlos Kollias10,11, Zhengzhao Johnny Luo12, Gerald G Mace13, Peter James Marinescu6, Sharmila Padmanabhan14, Philip Partain15, Walter Arthur Petersen16, Sai Prasanth2, Steven C Reising17, Rick Schulte18, Courtney Schumacher19, Rachel L Storer20 and Ousmane Sy3, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Colorado State University, Boulder, United States, (10)Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, (11)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (12)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (13)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (14)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (15)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (16)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (17)Colorado State University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (18)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (19)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (20)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
The Effects of Instrument Noise, Forward Model Uncertainties, and Footprint Overlap on Simulated Measurements from INCUS (1159917)
Richard Schulte1, Susan C van den Heever2, Derek J Posselt3, Sean William Freeman2, Robert Beauchamp4, Peter James Marinescu1 and Rachel L Storer4, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Automated Detection and Analysis of Severe, Tropopause-Penetrating Convective Storm Patterns Using Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Deep Learning (1161421)
Kristopher M Bedka, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, John William Cooney, NPP/USRA Post-Doc at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Konstantin V Khlopenkov, Sci Systems & Applications Inc, Hampton, VA, United States, Cameron R Homeyer, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Kelley Murphy, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States and John Robert Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Quantifying the Nonstationarity of the Vertical Mass Transport at Convective Time Scales (1172391)
Sai Prasanth1, Ziad S Haddad1, Sean William Freeman2, Peter James Marinescu3 and Susan C van den Heever2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Atmospheric Retrievals of Water Vapor, Clouds and Precipitation over Convective Storms from the TEMPEST Instrument on the ISS (1177529)
Steven C Reising1, Christian Kummerow2, V. V Chandrasekar3, Chia-Pang Kuo2, Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan1 and Shannon Thomas Brown4, (1)Colorado State University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Automated Tracking of Shallow Maritime Clouds on Geostationary Imagery to Extract Lifecycle Characteristics (1191793)
Roman Kowch, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, Charles R Trepte, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Jeffrey S. Reid, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States and Robert Holz, UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States
 
Bridging current indirect and future direct estimates of convective mass flux toward quantifying the role of convective cores on anvil area time tendencies (1196477)
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
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