Author(s): Qiu Yang, Peking University (First Author, Presenting Author) Yuhui Li, Peking University
Understanding how tropical rainstorms organize and evolve is critical for improving weather and climate predictions. This study introduces a simplified model that captures how rain evaporation-induced cold pools influence the formation and clustering of storms over tropical oceans. The model shows that cold pools not only help trigger new storms, thereby increasing cluster size, but also inhibit individual storms from forming too closely together. The findings also provide new insights into how storm systems may change in a warming climate. The model offers a valuable theoretical framework for understanding key physical processes and is simple enough to serve as a foundation for improving the representation of storm behaviors in larger-scale weather and climate models.
