AS41B:
Convective Cloud Processes II

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Session ID#: 6954

Session Description:
Convective clouds play an important role in the global
 energy balance through vertical transport and distribution of water and energy through the depth
 of the atmosphere. Since the processes that determine 
the lifecycle of these clouds and their feedbacks 
operate over a large range of scales, it is particularly 
difficult to characterize their impact on the climate
 system. We solicit presentations on the observations, analysis and modeling of convective cloud processes that impact the lifecycle and parameterization of these cloud types. Topics include, but are not limited to: environmental forcing, convective initiation, up/downdraft dynamics, turbulence, cloud/precipitation microphysics, entrainment/detrainment, and radiative impacts.
OSPA Liaison:  Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Chairs:  Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Virendra P Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Primary Convener:  Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Conveners:  Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Virendra P Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AS41B-01
The Sensitivity of Stratocumulus to Shallow Cumulus Transitions to Precipitation (35779)
Anita D Rapp, Texas A&M University College Station, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX, United States
AS41B-03
Observations of the Variability of Shallow Trade-Wind Cumulus Cloudiness and Mass Flux in Relation to Boundary Layer Structure (33827)
Katia Lamer, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Louise Nuijens, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
AS41B-04
A New Warm Cloud Microphysics Parameterization on the Droplet Collision Statistics (34295)
Sisi Chen1, Peter M Yau2, Peter Bartello2, Kevin Zwijsen2 and Paul Vaillancourt3, (1)McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (2)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Research Division, Doval, QC, Canada
AS41B-05
Understanding Shallow Cumulus Clouds as an Open System for Parameterization Improvement (34989)
Yangang Liu1, Chunsong Lu2, Jingyi Chen3, Wuyin Lin4 and Satoshi Endo4, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (2)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
AS41B-06
Study of entrainment characteristics in cloud-like flows (34083)
Kanwar Nain Singh and KR Sreenivas, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Reseach, Engineering Mechanics Unit, Bangalore, India
AS44B-0036
Clouds, Precipitation and Marine Boundary Layer Structure during the MAGIC Field Campaign (33838)
Xiaoli Zhou, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Ernie R Lewis, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
AS41B-08
Impacts of mesoscale forcing on cumulus entrainment and vigor (35016)
Daniel J Kirshbaum, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
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