Humidity, Wind Divergence, and Convection's Moisture Sensitivity in DYNAMO Data and an Attribution Model

Many MJO theories, and the DYNAMO campaign, are predicated on the bulk sensitivity of convection to water vapor and lapse rates, and vice versa. A range of DYNAMO data -- both special (Doppler radar, radiometer, sounding) and routine (reanalyses, satellite) are utilized together to attempt to infer aspects of this sensitivity. A new global anomaly model with specified convection sensitivities provides a forward-calculation platform for translating hypothesized multivariate convective sensitivity functions into observation-comparable datasets. With this model guidance, the correlations and coincidences among measurables in the special field data can be interpreted more clearly in mechanistic terms.