The Interaction between Surface-Atmosphere Exchange and Convective Precipitation in the Amazon: Results of the GoAmazon Boundary Layer Experiment

Paul C Stoy1, Jose D Fuentes2, Tobias Gerken3, Amy Trowbridge4, Gabriel George Katul5, Rosa M Nascimento dos Santos6, Antonio O Manzi7, Juliane Mercer4, Luiz Machado8, Julio Tota9, Celso von Randow10, Gilberto Fisch8, Fernando Ramos8 and Marcelo Chamecki11, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Biological Systems Engineering, Madison, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (6)Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, (7)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (8)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (9)Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil, (10)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (11)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States