Organized systems of deep convective clouds are often associated with high-impact weather
and changes in such systems may have implications for climate sensitivity. This has …

This study examines thermodynamic–convection coupling in observations and reanalyses,
and attempts to establish process-level benchmarks needed to guide model development …

The interaction between low-level tropical clouds and the large-scale circulation is a key
feedback element in our climate system, but our understanding of it is still fragmentary. In …

We are building a 3D description of upper tropospheric (UT) cloud systems in order to study
the relation between convection and cirrus anvils. For this purpose we used cloud data from …

An energy budget combining atmospheric moist static energy (MSE) and upper ocean heat
content (OHC) is used to examine the processes impacting day-to-day convective variability …

Organized deep convective activity has been routinely monitored by satellite precipitation
radar from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Global Precipitation Mission …

Climate responses to global warming exhibit large dependence on the spatial pattern of sea
surface temperature (SST) changes. A Green's function (GF) approach—predicting the …

Twenty years of satellite-based cloud and radiation observations allow us to examine the
observed cloud radiative effect (CRE) feedback (ie, CRE change per unit change in global …

Spatial aggregation of deep convection and its possible role in larger-scale atmospheric
behavior have received growing attention. Here we seek aggregation-correlated statistical …

Understanding convective aggregation is very important for understanding tropical climate
and climate sensitivity. However, we still lack a full understanding of how aggregation …