Session 3B Convection I

Monday, 31 March 2014: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
Pacific Salon 4 & 5 (Town and Country Resort )
Host: 31st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Chair:
Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan, Dept. of Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, MI

Papers:
1:30 PM
3B.1
Probing into responses of moist convection to large-scale temperature perturbations using a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model
Yang Tian, Harvard University, cambridge, MA; and J. Nie and Z. Kuang
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
3B.2
The Spectral Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation
Michael J. Herman, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
3B.3
Modeling the convective response to changes in the thermodynamic environment using the weak temperature gradient approximation: on the treatment of moisture
Sharon Sessions, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and S. Sentic, M. J. Herman, and D. J. Raymond
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
3B.4
The temperature dependence of CAPE, cloud-buoyancy, and vertical velocities in radiative-convective equilibrium
Martin S. Singh, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. O'Gorman
Recorded Presentation

3B.5
The mechanisms for convection triggering by cold pools

2:45 PM
3B.6
A Mechanism of Tropical Convection Inferred from Observed Variability in the Moist Static Energy Budget
Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; and T. L'Ecuyer
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
3B.7
Physical mechanisms controlling self-aggregation of convection in idealized numerical modeling simulations
Allison A. Wing, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and K. Emanuel
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (8.3 MB)

3:15 PM
3B.8
Radiative-Convective Instability
Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. A. Wing and E. M. Vincent
Recorded Presentation

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