A33O:
Convective Storm Systems and Their Roles in Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Composition I

Session ID#: 2179

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3020 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, CUNY, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States and Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Primary Convener:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Graeme L Stephens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Jessica L Neu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, CUNY, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3371 Tropical convection [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A33O-01
Aerosols and Convection: Global scale, MJO Scale and Regional Scale Analyses (Invited) (5862)
Steven A Rutledge, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
A33O-02
A Life-Cycle Based Analysis of Aerosol-Convection Interactions (5107)
Philip Stier1, Sarah Taylor2, Edward Gryspeerdt3, Bethan White4 and Nick Schutgens2, (1)University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (4)Monash University, Clayton, Australia
A33O-03
Convection from 16+ Years of TRMM Observations: Phenomenon, Variations, and Relationships to Large-Scale Environments (Invited) (3300)
Chuntao Liu, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
A33O-04
Convective initiation in the vicinity of the subtropical Andes (24907)
Rasmussen Lani Kristen, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Robert Houze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
A33O-05
Projected Increase in Lightning Strikes in the United States Due to Global Warming (8910)
David M Romps1, Jacob Seeley2, David Vollaro3 and John Molinari3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)Harvard University, Center for the Environment, Cambridge, United States, (3)SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
A33O-06
Mesoscale Convective Systems As a Source of Water Vapor in the Tropical Tropopause Transition Layer (6100)
Katrina Virts, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Robert Houze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
A33O-07
An Examination of the Convective Moistening of Lower Stratosphere Using Satellite Data (10889)
Yi Huang, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and Ying Sun, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A33O-08
Giga-LES of Hector the Convector Making the Tropical Stratosphere Wetter (22098)
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau1,2, Thibaut Dauhut2,3, Juan Escobar2,3 and Patrick J Mascart2,3, (1)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, LAERO, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)Lab d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France, (3)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
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