Chairs: Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Ahmed B Tawfik, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Primary Conveners: Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners: Ahmed B Tawfik, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Duane E Waliser, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mitch Moncrieff, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Roles of Wind Shear at Different Vertical Levels, Part I: Cloud System Organization and Properties
Samson M Hagos1, Qian Chen2, Jiwen Fan1, William I Gustafson Jr1 and Larry K Berg3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Key Laboratory for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing, China, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Numerical Simulations of Severe Precipitation Events over Liguria (Italy) with the WRF Model and Analysis of the Sensitivity to Different Cloud Microphysics Parameterizations
Federico Cassola1,2, Francesco Ferrari2,3 and Andrea Mazzino2,3, (1)University of Genoa, Department of Physics, Genoa, Italy, (2)INFN, Genoa Section and CINFAI Consortium, Genoa Section, Genoa, Italy, (3)University of Genoa, Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Genoa, Italy
Sensitivity of summer ensembles of super-parameterized US mesoscale convective systems to cloud resolving model microphysics and resolution
Elizabeth Elliott1, Sungduk Yu1, Gabriel J Kooperman2, Hugh Morrison3, Minghuai Wang4 and Michael S Pritchard1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Grid-dependent Convection in WRF-LES
Jason S Simon, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Bowen Zhou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Fotini K Chow, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
The dependence of vertical cloud profiles from CloudSat-CALIPSO retrievals on the degree of convective aggregation
Christopher E Holloway, University of Reading, NCAS-Climate, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Thorwald Stein, University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, Isabelle Tobin, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Paris, France and Sandrine Bony, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France