Description:

Convective clouds play an essential role in regulating the global energy and water cycles, with deep convective clouds (DCC) being among the most important components of the Earth's atmospheric system. Despite their significance, the representation of DCCs and their feedback on the global circulation and cloudiness remains a major source of uncertainty in Earth system models. One of the biggest uncertainties is the impact of aerosol on DCC properties, which continues to be a topic of debate within the scientific community.

The goal of this session is to advance our understanding of the three-way aerosol-DCC-environment interactions and their impact on climate predictions. We welcome theoretical, observational, and modeling studies on various topics related to DCC-aerosol-environment interactions, including:

1. Aerosol impacts on DCC macrophysics, microphysics, kinematics, thermodynamics, radiative properties, and precipitation processes

2. Influence of environmental conditions, such as wind shear, humidity, and instability, on DCC processes and aerosol-DCC interactions

3. Climatic influence of aerosol-DCC-environment interactions and their impact on future climate predictions

4. DCC transport of aerosol particles and subsequent influence on the aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei size distributions

5. Novel measurements, including laboratory, in situ, and remote sensing techniques, as well as advanced machine learning methods and modeling techniques