Observed and Simulated Relationships Between Tropical Deep Convective Updraft Dynamics and Ice Microphysics

Adam Varble1, McKenna Stanford2, Edward J Zipser3, J Walter Strapp4, Julien Delanoë5, Alexei Korolev6, Delphine Leroy7, Rodney Potts8, Alain Protat8 and Alfons Schwarzenboeck7, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)Met Analytics Inc., Aurora, ON, Canada, (5)LATMOS, UVSQ, IPSL, CNRS, Guyancourt, France, (6)Environment Canada Toronto, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Section, Toronto, ON, Canada, (7)Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere Cedex, France, (8)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia