Idealized High-Resolution Simulations of a Back-Building Convective System that Causes Torrential Rain

Convective Structures in a Simulated Torrential-Rain-Producing Mesoscale Convective System in East China

Idealized simulations of pyro-convective clouds

Non-robustness of convective organization in idealized mesoscale model simulations

In a prior study, Su, Bretherton, and Chen used the Penn State/National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) to study the organization of deep convection in a nonrotating atmosphere over a horizontally uniform tropical ocean, with periodic boundary conditions and an imposed mean lifting. They found that convection could “self-aggregate” from small-scale initial noise into a lar...

Research Work on Torrential Rain and Typhoons

Heavy rains and typhoons cause major disasters, including great economic losses and casualties, in China. Therefore, it is very important to research these torrential rains and typhoons in order to improve forecasting accuracy to mitigate their consequences. The Center of Disaster Reduction of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has cooperated with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science ...

The sensitivity of convective aggregation to diabatic processes in idealized radiativeconvective equilibrium simulations

Idealized explicit convection simulations of the Met Office Unified Model exhibit spontaneous selfaggregation in radiative-convective equilibrium, as seen in other models in previous studies. This selfaggregation is linked to feedbacks between radiation, surface fluxes, and convection, and the organization is intimately related to the evolution of the column water vapor field. Analysis of the b...