A53D:
Convective Storm Systems and Their Roles in Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Composition IV Posters

Session ID#: 5344

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, New York, United States and Jessica L Neu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 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, 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:

 
Variation of Ice Crystal Size, Shape and Asymmetry Parameter in Tops of Convective Storm Systems Observed during SEAC4RS (9329)
Bastiaan van Diedenhoven1,2, Brian Cairns2, Ann M Fridlind2 and Andrew S Ackerman3, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
 
A Comparative Study of Tibetan Plateau Vortex and Southwest Vortex Causing Heavy Rainfall Based on TRMM Data (6490)
Guoping Li and Lujun Jiang, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China
 
A simulation study of the convective instability and subsequent generation of Acoustic-gravity waves in the troposphere to MLT region (2347)
Babu Ram Tiwari, Esfhan Alam Kherani and José Humberto Andrade Sobral, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
 
AEROSOL/CLOUD BASE DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS AND THE ONSET OF COALESCENCE IN SHALLOW AND DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS (27638)
Roelof T Bruintjes, National Center for Atmospheri, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul Lawson, SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, Sara Lance, SUNY Albany, Albany, United States, Duncan Axisa, NCAR, Boulder, United States and Sarah Woods, SPEC Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
 
Characteristics of Precipitation Event Life Cycles in the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) (31918)
Yanping Li, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States, Richard E. Carbone, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
Impacts of a Fire Smoke Plume on Deep Convective Clouds Observed during DC3 (25136)
Azusa Takeishi1, Trude Storelvmo1 and Mark Zagar2, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N, Denmark
 
A Multiscale Analysis of Upstream Precursors associated with High Impact Severe Weather Events across the Upper Midwest (26987)
Nicholas D Metz, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geoscience, Geneva, United States and Jason M Cordeira, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, United States
 
Midlatitude Tropopause and Low-Level Moisture (7591)
Yutian Wu, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Olivier M Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY, United States and Tiffany Shaw, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
 
Lightning NOx Production and Transport in the 29 May 2012 DC3 case: A Modeling Study Using Radar Data Assimilation and a Branched Lightning Simulation. (30648)
Blake J Allen1,2, Edward Mansell3 and Daniel Betten1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK, United States, (3)National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, United States
 
Characteristics of Overshooting Convections over Asia Observed from TRMM Satellite (31597)
Tie Yuan and Xia Li, LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
 
A Case Study of Mesoscale Cyclonic Vortices Associated with the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (25129)
Mario Francisco Leal de Quadro1, Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias2, Dirceu Luis Herdies3 and Luis Goncalves3, (1)Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, Meteorology, Florianopolis, Brazil, (2)IAG Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, Meteorology, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (3)CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil