Vertical resolution impacts explicit simulation of deep convection

AM Jenney, SL Ferretti… - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The aggregation of tropical convection greatly influences the mean‐state of the atmosphere,
altering humidity distributions, total atmospheric radiative cooling, and cloud amounts …

Characteristic form and distance in high‐level hierarchical structure of self‐aggregated clouds in radiative‐convective equilibrium

T Yanase, S Nishizawa, H Miura… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The nature of convective organization remains elusive, despite its importance in
understanding the role of clouds in climate systems. This study reports a new type of large …

Modulation of tropical convection‐circulation interaction by aerosol indirect effects in convective self‐aggregation simulations of a gray zone global model

CY Su, CM Wu, WT Chen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the response of tropical convective updrafts to enhanced aerosol
concentrations has been challenging. Leading theories for explaining the influence of …

Convection Self‐Aggregation in CNRM‐CM6‐1: Equilibrium and Transition Sensitivity to Surface Temperature

D Coppin, R Roehrig - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the spontaneous self‐aggregation of convection in non‐rotating
Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium (RCE) simulations performed by the CNRM‐CM6‐1 …

Nonlocally coupled moisture model for convective self-aggregation

T Yanase, S Shima, S Nishizawa, H Tomita - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Clouds play a central role in climate physics by interacting with precipitation, radiation, and
circulation. Although the self-aggregation of clouds is a fundamental problem in convective …

Convective Variabilities Leading to Different Pathways of Convective Self-Aggregation in Two Cloud-Resolving Models

JD Huang, CS Hung, CM Wu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Convective variability is used to diagnose different pathways toward convective self-
aggregation (CSA) in radiative–convective equilibrium simulations with two cloud-resolving …

The Impact of a Land‐Sea Contrast on Convective Aggregation in Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium

B Dingley, G Dagan, P Stier… - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Convective aggregation is an important atmospheric phenomenon which frequently occurs
in idealized models in radiative‐convective equilibrium (RCE), where the effects of land …