Joint Session 31 Tropical Convection. Part I

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
205B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones Symposium; and the Eighth Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Chairs:
Allison A. Wing, Florida State Univ., Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL and Torri Giuseppe, University of Hawai‘i, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI

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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Papers:
3:00 PM
J31.1
What Does Convective Organization Look Like in a GCM?
Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
3:15 PM
J31.2
Comparing Convective Self-Aggregation in Idealized Models to Observed Moist Static Energy Variability near the Equator
Tom Beucler, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; Columbia Univ., New York, CA; and T. H. Abbott, T. W. Cronin, and M. S. Pritchard
3:30 PM
J31.3A
3:45 PM
J31.4
A Simple Framework for Understanding Slow, Convectively Coupled Circulations
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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