Quantifying the Upscale Effects of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Implications to Model Biases in Large-Scale Circulation
Koichi Sakaguchi1, Zhe Feng2, Jian Lu2, L. Ruby Leung2, Jihyeon Jang3, Colin M. Zarzycki4 and Robert Houze5, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States