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Organisation in Shallow Convection: Interactive Session
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Organisation in Shallow Convection: Introduction
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Organisation in Shallow Convection: Guiding Questions
- Graham Feingold (NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division)
- Louise Nuijens (Delft University of Technology)
- Pier Siebesma (Delft University of Technology)
Organisation in Shallow Convection: Panel Discussion
- Pier Siebesma (Delft University of Technology)
- Graham Feingold (NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division)
- Louise Nuijens (Delft University of Technology)
Organisation in Shallow Convection: Poster Pitches
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Raphaela Vogel (LMD/CNRS Paris)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
We present a climatology of trade cumulus cold pools and their associated meteorological perturbations based on ten years of in-situ and remote sensing data from the Barbados Cloud Observatory. Cold pools are identified by abrupt drops in surface temperature, and the mesoscale organization pattern is classified by a neural network algorithm based on GOES-16 infrared images. We find cold pools...
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27. A unified shallow-deep mass flux cumulus parameterization based on a stochastic multicloud modelBoualem Khouider (University of Victoria)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Cumulus parameterization (CP) in state-of-the-art global climate models (GCM) is based on the quasi-equilibrium assumption (QEA). This view contradicts the observed organization and dynamical interactions across multiple scales of cloud systems in the tropics. The last two decades have seen a surge in novel ideas to represent key physical processes of moist convection-large-scale...
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Graham Feingold (NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
The influence of aerosol on precipitation in shallow clouds is a topic of longstanding interest. We will address the case of aerosol effects on warm trade-wind cumulus and show that the cloud system develops spatial organization structures in such a way as to generate similar amounts of precipitation, regardless of the aerosol input.
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Martin Janssens (Wageningen University & Research)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Quantifying, interpreting and classifying meso-scale patterns in shallow trade-wind cloud fields has recently received considerable attention. Typical patterns have i.a. been identified by expert visual inspection, machine learning and several "organisation metrics". In this work, we compute 21 frequently used or recently developed organisation metrics for 5000 satellite-observed shallow trade...
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Roel Neggers (University of Cologne)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Understanding cloud-circulation coupling in the Trade wind regions, as well as addressing the grey zone problem in convective parameterization, requires insight into the genesis and maintainance of spatial patterns in cumulus cloud populations. In this study a simple toy model for recreating populations of interacting convective objects as distributed over a two-dimensional grid is formulated...
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Hauke Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Shallow convection in the downwind trades occurs in form of different cloud patterns with characteristic cloud arrangements at the meso-scale. The four most dominant patterns were previously named Sugar, Gravel, Flowers and Fish and have been identified to be associated with different net cloud radiative effects.
By using long-term observations, we reveal that these differences can be...
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Philipp Griewank (University of Cologne)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
When studying the spatial organization and size distribution of shallow convection, the most widely looked at characteristic is the 2D projected cloud field. This approach has many practical benefits. 2D cloud fields can be easily detected with high precision from satellite or aerial retrievals, and generating a 2D cloud mask from model output is trivial. There are some drawbacks though. ...
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Ryan Eastman (University of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
In order to study the Lagrangian transition of mesoscale cloud morphologies in four eastern subtropical ocean basins, over 160,000 96-hour boundary layer trajectories are produced from ERA5 winds in these regions. Mesoscale cellular convection (MCC) classifications are generated from a supervised neural network algorithm applied to MODIS daytime liquid water path (LWP) data. This algorithm...
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Pornampai Narenpitak (NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory / CIRES University of Colorado Boulder)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) took place in January–February 2020. It was designed to understand the relationship between shallow convection and the large-scale environment in the trade-wind regime. Lagrangian large eddy simulations, following the trajectory of a boundary-layer airmass, can reproduce a transition of trade cumulus organization...
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Peter Blossey (University of Washington, Seattle)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
The EUREC4A field campaign took place in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean during January and February 2020. An array of in situ and remote sensing observations of the atmosphere and ocean around Barbados were gathered by an array of platforms including aircraft, ships, satellites and the ground-based Barbados Cloud Observatory. Our focus is on the evolution of marine boundary layer cloud...
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Mikael Witte (Naval Postgraduate School)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Coarse-gridded atmospheric models often account for subgrid-scale variability by specifying probability distribution functions (PDFs) of process rate inputs such as cloud and rain water mixing ratios ($q_c$ and $q_r$, respectively). PDF parameters can be obtained from numerous sources: in situ observations, ground- or space-based remote sensing, or fine-scale modeling such as large eddy...
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Leif Denby (University of Leeds)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Existing methods for characterising cloud organisation rely on metrics which measure specific features of the cloud structures present, however existing features lead to ambiguity in identifying the convective regimes and formulating new metrics which are physically relevant is a challenging task. By automatically extracting spacial features necessary to solve a specific task (here...
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Jule Radtke (Meteorological Institute, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Scenes of trade wind convection exhibit a rich spatial variability characterized by patterns, which are often associated with precipitation. Precipitation might be a key to understand the spatial patterning in shallow convection. However, the spatial patterning of precipitation is largely unexplored. We exploit observational data from the C-band radar PoldiRad installed during the EUREC4A...
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Florent Beucher (Météo France)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Since 2016, the AROME-OM model is operational over the Carribean area at a 2.5 km resolution. Availability of these operational forecasts raises several scientific questions : i) to what extent this new generation of models significantly improves the forecast in the Overseas; ii) does this huge ensemble of simulated data represent an opportunity to study the processes that govern the shallow...
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Jan Kazil (University of Colorado / NOAA)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Large scale subsidence co-determines lower tropospheric stability, boundary layer height, and entrainment into the boundary layer, and hence boundary layer cloud properties. Observations show substantial vertical structure in large scale subsidence in the lower troposphere. Such vertical structure is also present in global simulations. Here we examine the relationship between the vertical...
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Jessica Danker (Goethe-University)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Mesoscale-cellular convective (MCC) organisation is frequently observed in Southern Ocean (SO) stratocumuli, which exert a climate relevant cloud radiative effect in this region. Furthermore, many of these clouds are not pure liquid clouds, but contain a mixture of ice and liquid.
McCoy et al. (2017) demonstrated that the cloud albedo and thus the shortwave cloud-radiative effect of SO...
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Louise Nuijens07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Studies of deep convection have long established that environmental wind shear is important for the development of long-lived organized convection. But do we understand how winds play a role in the organization of shallow convection?
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In this talk I will show idealized and realistic large-eddy simulations of precipitating shallow convection and discuss the sensitivity of convective deepening... -
Marcin Kurowski (JPL/Caltech)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Large-eddy simulation is used to investigate the effects of cold pools driven by rain evaporation on the shallow-to-deep convection transition over land. The applied methodology allows for obtaining a time-dependent reference ensemble without cold pools for interactive surface fluxes. The reference ensemble, in the spirit of one-dimensional single-column models, eliminates cold pools by...
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Douglas J Parker (University of Leeds)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
We have constructed an extension of the Rayleigh–Bénard model of convection, to include latent heating due to the condensation of water vapour in clouds. Condensation occurs whenever specific humidity exceeds saturation (a nonlinear function derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron relation), and leads to heating. Condensed water is removed from the system and hence there is no evaporation. The...
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Jingyi Chen07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Some of the fundamental puzzles of climate research are related to limited understanding of the critical processes governing the organization and evolution of cloud fields. These processes include the understanding and representation of forcing of shallow convection and subsequent mixing processes. Here we tracked the Lagrangian evolution of thousands of individual shallow cumulus clouds in a...
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Dr Isabel McCoy (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research & Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, USA)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation
Mesoscale cellular convective (MCC) clouds occur in large-scale patterns over the ocean, are prevalent in sub-tropical cloud regions and mid-latitudes, and have important radiative impacts on the climate system. On average, closed MCC clouds have higher albedos than open or disorganized MCC clouds for the same cloud fraction which suggests differences in micro- and macro-physical...
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Pier Siebesma (Delft University of Technology)07/05/2021, 16:00Organisation in Shallow ConvectionInteractive presentation