Session 8 |
| | Deep Convective Clouds II |
| | Chair: William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 8.1 | Influence of ambient environmental conditions and orography on the characteristics of deep convective cells as simulated with a sophisticated two-moment (bulk) microphysical scheme  
Ulrich Blahak, Intitut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Universität Karlsruhe / Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany; and H. Noppel and K. D. Beheng |
| 10:45 AM | 8.2 | Numerical study of relationships between convective vertical velocity, radar reflectivity profiles, and passive microwave brightness temperatures
Yaping Li, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. J. Zipser, S. K. Krueger, and M. A. Zulauf |
| 11:00 AM | 8.3 | A cloud model sensitivity study of the environmental temperature profile on the thunderstorm development
Shih-Hao Su, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. K. Wang |
| 11:15 AM | 8.4 | The coupled effect of mid-tropospheric moisture and aerosol abundance on deep convective clouds dynamics and microphysics
Zhiqiang Cui, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and K. S. Carslaw and A. M. Blyth |
|  | 8.5 | Improving the parametrization of microphysics for high-resolution NWP forecasts of deep convection, using observations from the UK CSIP campaign
Richard M. Forbes, UK Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom |
| 11:30 AM | 8.6 | A three-dimensional cloud modeling study on the dynamical and microphysical variability of thunderstorms in different climate regimes
Robert E. Schlesinger, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Hubbard and P. K. Wang |