A14E:
Convective Clouds: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate II


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Session ID#: 58266

Session Description:
Convection plays a key role in the climate system through precipitation, latent heating, and the transport of mass and energy. There are still many unanswered questions about the processes occurring in convective clouds, however advances in high-resolution modeling and the wealth of observations available have allowed much progress in this area in recent years.

In this session we invite presentations on research related to convective clouds, including precipitation formation, latent and radiative heating, dynamics, and upscale feedbacks. Both observational and modeling studies are encouraged to participate.

We especially encourage submissions offering new ways to improve process-level understanding of convection.

Primary Convener:  Rachel L Storer, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Johnny Luo, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachel L Storer, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Chairs:  Rachel L Storer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, United States and Johnny Luo, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rachel L Storer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, United States
Index Terms:

3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tropical Convective Clouds and Earth's Energy Balance (Invited) (369595)
Dennis L Hartmann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Blaz Gasparini, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
A Tale of Two Diurnal Cloud Modes (385514)
James H Ruppert Jr1, Cathy Hohenegger1 and Morgan E O'Neill2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Sensitivity of the Convective Diurnal Cycle to its Environment in Observations and Reanalysis (380957)
Kyle Frederick Itterly, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Hampton, United States and Patrick C Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
The lifecycle of anvil clouds and the top-of-atmosphere radiation balance over the tropical west Pacific (370556)
Casey Wall, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Dennis L. Hartmann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Mandana M Thieman, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, William L Smith Jr, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States and Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
The Observed Relationship Between Precipitation Efficiency and the Large-Scale Environment for a Location in the Tropics (387780)
Sugata Narsey1, Christian Jakob2, Martin Singh3, Valentin Louf4 and Alain Protat4, (1)Monash University, Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (3)Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere & Environment, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (4)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
Land-surface properties and atmospheric conditions impacting sea-breeze convection and aerosol transport in a moist environment (438954)
Minnie Minnie Park1, Susan C van den Heever1, Leah D Grant2 and Adele L Igel3, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States
Sounding the vertical thermodynamic structure of precipitation using standard and polarimetric Radio Occultations (395696)
Ramon Padulles1, Joe J Turk2, Chi O Ao3, Manuel de la Torre-Juárez1, J David Neelin4, Yi-Hung Kuo5 and Estel Cardellach6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), Barcelona, Spain
Organization Controls on Precipitating Convection (Invited) (357000)
Cathy Hohenegger and Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

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