Idealized simulations of the tropical atmosphere have predicted that clouds can
spontaneously clump together in space, despite perfectly homogeneous settings. This …

This review paper explores the field of mesoscale to microscale modeling over complex
terrain as it traverses multiple so-called gray zones. In an attempt to bridge the gap between …

Abstract The Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project (RCEMIP) is
an intercomparison of multiple types of numerical models configured in radiative‐convective …

RCEMIP, an intercomparison of multiple types of models configured in radiative–convective
equilibrium (RCE), is proposed. RCE is an idealization of the climate system in which there …

Trade‐wind clouds exhibit a large diversity of spatial organizations at the mesoscale. Over
the tropical western Atlantic, a recent study has visually identified four prominent mesoscale …

Convective self-aggregation, the spontaneous organization of initially scattered convection
into isolated convective clusters despite spatially homogeneous boundary conditions and …

Pools of air cooled by partial rain evaporation span up to several hundreds of kilometers in
nature and typically last less than 1 day, ultimately losing their identity to the large-scale …

This study analyzes the observed monthly deseasonalized and detrended variability of the
tropical radiation budget and suggests that variations of the lower‐tropospheric stability and …

Tropical cloud and circulation changes are large sources of uncertainty in future climate
change. This problem owes partly to the scale separation between large‐scale tropical …

The representation of shallow trade wind convective clouds in climate models dominates the
uncertainty in climate sensitivity estimates. In particular the radiative impact of cloud spatial …