Workshop on Spatial Organisation of Convection, Clouds and Precipitation

Signals of convective aggregation in the Pacific warm pool regions

28 May 2020, 16:45

1h 45m

Room Hb1 (Niels Bohr Inst.)

Poster Poster Session + Refreshments

Speaker

Adrian Tompkins (ICTP)

Description

Preliminary results of an ongoing analysis is made of the relationships between sea surface temperature, water vapour, clouds and precipitation in warm pool deep convective regimes. These will show that in some circumstances these covarying relationships reflect characteristics of idealized simulations of deep convection clustered states in radiative convective equilibrium on scales of O(1000)km. We will argue that this is evidence of convection being in a continuously clustered state in the warm pool region in addition to direct measures of clustering made with univariate analyses of out-going longwave radiation and precipitation fields.