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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, CUNY, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States and Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Co-conveners:  Susan C van den Heever1, Graeme L Stephens2 and Jessica L. Neu2, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States(2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, CUNY, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Aerosols and Convection: Global scale, MJO Scale and Regional Scale Analyses
Steven A Rutledge, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
1:55 PM
 
A Life-Cycle Based Analysis of Aerosol-Convection Interactions
Philip Stier1, Sarah Taylor1, Edward Gryspeerdt2, Bethan White1 and Nick Schutgens1, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2:10 PM
 
Convection from 16+ Years of TRMM Observations: Phenomenon, Variations, and Relationships to Large-Scale Environments
Chuntao Liu, Texas A&M Univ Corpus Christi, corpus christi, TX, United States
2:25 PM
 
Convective initiation in the vicinity of the subtropical Andes
Kristen Lani Rasmussen and Robert Houze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
2:40 PM
 
Projected Increase in Lightning Strikes in the United States Due to Global Warming
David M Romps1, Jacob Seeley1, David Vollaro2 and John Molinari2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
2:55 PM
 
Mesoscale Convective Systems As a Source of Water Vapor in the Tropical Tropopause Transition Layer
Katrina Virts and Robert Houze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
3:10 PM
 
An Examination of the Convective Moistening of Lower Stratosphere Using Satellite Data
Yi Huang and Ying Sun, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
3:25 PM
 
Giga-LES of Hector the Convector Making the Tropical Stratosphere Wetter
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau1,2, Thibaut Dauhut1,2, Juan Escobar1,2 and Patrick J Mascart1,2, (1)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)Lab d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France
 
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