Primary Convener:
Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Convener:
Yang Tian, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Rachel Storer, University of California
Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab

Chair:
Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Yang Tian, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Rachel Storer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab

Despite the critical role convection plays in the climate system, many uncertainties remain owing to the wide variety of processes and scales involved. Processes on the smallest scales of turbulence and microphysics connect through dynamics and radiation to both weather and climate, locally through precipitation and hazardous weather, and more broadly through feedbacks on global circulations and the climate system. Improving our understanding of clouds and convection at a process level, their representation in large-scale models, and the ability to forecast related hazards remains an outstanding challenge. This session aims to explore aspects of boundary layer, shallow, and deep convective clouds, considering fundamental processes as well as links to topics such as self-aggregation, land surface interactions, and their role in weather and climate. We invite presentations of both observational and modeling studies.

Index Terms
3307 Boundary layer processes
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks
3314 Convective processes

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering