Scale Interactions and Precipitating Convective Systems
Focus: To advance basic knowledge of precipitating convective systems, with emphasis on up- and down-scale interactions between convection and other modes of atmospheric motion, for improving weather prediction and climate models.
We define the phrase “precipitating convective systems” as referring to the coupled physics of precipitating convection, boundary layer turbulence, surface exchange, cloud-microphysics and cloud-radiative interaction, all of which are interacting with large-scale dynamics. Quantifying precipitating convective systems and their underlying scale interactions is a multi-faceted problem which provides exciting research challenges.Better knowledge of such coupled physics will enable us to advance the representation and prediction of the atmospheric water cycle, organized convection, the atmospheric convective-radiative-dynamical equilibrium, and phenomena within the weather-climate interface.
Related Research
BAMEX (Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment)
NAME (North American Monsoon Project)
People
David Ahijevych
Roleof Bruintjes
Janice Coen
Chris Davis
Sherrie Fredrick
Wojciech Grabowski
Arlene Laing
Changhai Liu
Mitch Moncrieff
Piotr Smolarkiewicz
Stan Trier
John Tuttle