J13A Mesoscale Cloud Organization

Thursday, 16 January 2025: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
215 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; and the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics )
Cochairs:
Xiaoli Zhou, CIRES/CU Boulder, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO; Michael S. Diamond, University of Washington, Seattle, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA; Isabel L. McCoy and Kathleen Schiro, JPL, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Pasadena, CA

Mesoscale organization of shallow and deep convection is a ubiquitous feature of cloud systems with climatic importance for modulating cloud water, precipitation, and top-of-atmosphere and surface radiation. However, our fundamental understanding of what drives pattern formation in clouds and its impact on the strength of cloud feedback and therefore climate sensitivity remains limited. This uncertainty is exacerbated by the potential effects of anthropogenic atmospheric aerosols on modulating cloud organization in conjunction with other meteorological drivers. This session invites observational, theoretical, and numerical modeling studies that expand our understanding of the interactions between cloud organization, meteorology, and aerosol, and their implications for climate. All topics related to shallow cloud organization, deep convective organization (including convective self-aggregation studies), Lagrangian and climatological transitions between shallow cloud organizational structures, and extreme events that are tied to mesoscale convective organization are welcome. We especially welcome innovative perspectives on the role of aerosols in regulating cloud organization, and the reciprocal influence of cloud organization on aerosol-cloud interactions, cloud radiative properties and cloud feedback. We encourage thought-provoking contributions and novel ideas based on satellite observations, large eddy and cloud resolving model simulations, conceptual modeling, theoretical approaches, and recent field campaigns (e.g. ACE-ENA, ACTIVATE, AEROMMA, CAMP2Ex, CAP-MBL, CAPE-k, COMBLE, CSET, EPCAPE/SCILLA, EUREC4A/ATOMIC, MAGIC, ORACLES/CLARIFY/LASIC, OTREC, RELAMPAGO-CACTI, TRACER/ESCAPE).

Papers:
8:30 AM
J13A.1
Ship-borne Radar Observations of Organized Convection during the Field Campaign ORCESTRA
Allison A. Wing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. M. Bell, J. H. Ruppert Jr., D. Colón-Burgos, D. Klocke, C. C. Nam, and M. E. O'Neill

8:45 AM
J13A.2
Synergistic Impacts of Surface Heterogeneity and Cold Pools on Tropical Convection
Leah D. Grant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. M. Falk, G. R. Leung, and S. C. van den Heever

9:00 AM
J13A.3
GreenCu Cloud Patterns: A Novel Approach to Measuring Cloud Organization (Invited)
Tom Dror, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and I. Koren, O. Altaratz, and M. Chekroun Sr.

9:15 AM
J13A.4
DOE ARM LASSO Activity: Progress on ENA Maritime Cloud Scenario
William I. Gustafson Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and S. Giangrande, C. Kaul, S. Endo, K. Pressel, J. Rausch, E. Schuman, H. Xiao, and D. Zhang

9:30 AM
J13A.5
Stratocumulus Adjustments to Aerosols Disentangled with a Causal Approach (Invited)
Emilie Fons, LMD/CNRS, Paris, France; and A. K. Naumann, T. Lang, D. Neubauer, U. Lohmann, I. L. McCoy, and S. Bony

9:45 AM
J13A.6
- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner