A34B:
Convective Storm Systems and Their Roles in Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Composition II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Jessica L. Neu, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 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, New York, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Understanding and Prediction of Convective Transport, Scavenging, and Lightning-Produced Nitrogen Oxides Based on DC3 Thunderstorm Cases
Mary C Barth, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Megan M Bela, University of Colorado, Boulde, Boulder, CO, United States, Kenneth E Pickering, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Heidi Huntrieser, German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany, William H Brune, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Christopher A Cantrell, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Steven A Rutledge, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
4:15 PM
 
Convective Transport of Trace Gases from Near the Surface to the Upper Troposphere - a Case Study
Tomas Mikoviny1, Jennifer Richardson Olson2, Simone Tanelli3, Thomas B Ryerson4, Ilana B Pollack4,5, Jeff Peischl4,5, Paul O Wennberg6, John Crounse6, Jason Michael St Clair6, Alan Fried7, Dirk Richter8, Thomas F Hanisco9, Glenn M Wolfe Jr9,10 and Armin Wisthaler1,11, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Chemistry, Oslo, Norway, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (11)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria
4:45 PM
 
Trace gas constraints on vertical transport in models: a case study of Indonesian biomass burning emissions in 2006
Robert D Field1,2, Ming Luo3, John Worden3, Daehyun Kim4, Anthony D Del Genio2 and Apostolos Voulgarakis5, (1)Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)JPL / Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Assistant Professor, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
5:00 PM
 
The Effects of Large-Scale Dynamic Flows on Tropical Deep Convective Morphology
Matthew Igel and Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
5:15 PM
 
Identification of Dynamic Processes Responsible for Preconditioning the Atmosphere for Severe Convective Outbreaks in Midlatitudes
John Vincent Agard and Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
5:30 PM
 
Effective Buoyancy, Dynamic Pressure, and Deep Convective Triggering by Cold Pools
Nadir Jeevanjee and David M Romps, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
5:45 PM
 
The role of vertical motion structures in the amplification of deep convection
Larissa E Back, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Kuniaki Inoue, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
 
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