Tropical convection, through its control of tropical cloud cover, humidity, and rainfall, is important for both tropical weather and tropical and global climate variability. Organized tropical convection, on a variety of scales, is of particular importance in this regard. Yet important scientific and technical gaps remain in our ability to understand and simulate tropical convection, particularly with regards to the coupling between dynamics and diabatic processes. Contributions should be encouraged from theoretical, modeling, and observational studies that address any aspect of tropical shallow and deep convective dynamics, including convective organization, diurnal variations, local circulations (island, sea-breeze, etc..), interactions with the large-scale environment and tropical weather phenomena, and the role of tropical convection in climate.
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