Radiative–convective equilibrium model intercomparison project

AA Wing, KA Reed, M Satoh, B Stevens… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
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 …

Tropical precipitation evolution in a buoyancy-budget framework

ÁF Adames, SW Powell, F Ahmed… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical Precipitation Evolution in a Buoyancy-Budget Framework in: Journal of the
Atmospheric Sciences Volume 78 Issue 2 (2021) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Aerosol invigoration of atmospheric convection through increases in humidity

TH Abbott, TW Cronin - Science, 2021 - science.org
Cloud-aerosol interactions remain a major obstacle to understanding climate and severe
weather. Observations suggest that aerosols enhance tropical thunderstorm activity; past …

Clouds, circulation, and climate sensitivity in a radiative‐convective equilibrium channel model

TW Cronin, AA Wing - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Clausius–Clapeyron scaling of CAPE from analytical solutions to RCE

DM Romps - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Clausius–Clapeyron Scaling of CAPE from Analytical Solutions to RCE in: Journal of the
Atmospheric Sciences Volume 73 Issue 9 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Cumulonimbus clouds convert a smaller fraction of CAPE into kinetic energy in a warmer atmosphere

JM Peters, DR Chavas, ZJ Lebo… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study investigates how entrainment's diluting effect on cumulonimbus updraft buoyancy
is affected by the temperature of the troposphere, which is expected to increase by the end …

Observational relationship between entrainment rate and environmental relative humidity and implications for convection parameterization

C Lu, C Sun, Y Liu, GJ Zhang, Y Lin… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Entrainment rate is a critical but highly uncertain quantity in convective parameterizations;
especially, the effects of environmental relative humidity on entrainment rate are …

[HTML][HTML] Convective dynamics and the response of precipitation extremes to warming in radiative–convective equilibrium

TH Abbott, TW Cronin, T Beucler - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Convective Dynamics and the Response of Precipitation Extremes to Warming in Radiative–Convective
Equilibrium in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 77 Issue 5 (2020) Jump to …

The emergence of relaxation-oscillator convection on Earth and Titan

FE Spaulding-Astudillo, JL Mitchell - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.03219, 2023 - arxiv.org
In relaxation-oscillator (RO) climate states, short-lived convective storms with torrential
rainfall form and dissipate at regular, periodic intervals. RO states have been demonstrated …

Ascending columns, WTG, and convective aggregation

DM Romps - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Analytic solutions are derived for a convecting atmosphere with mean ascent using a zero-
buoyancy bulk-plume approximation for moist convection. It has been suggested that such …