Session 3 – convective clouds

Oral session:

S3.1 The microphysics and kinematics of a potential flash flood on 3 August2013 during COPE
Alan Blyth*1, Yahui Huang2, Lindsay Bennett1, Keith Browning2, Sonia Lasher-Trapp3, David Leon4, Jeff French4, Tom Choularton5, Phil Brown6, Humphrey Lean7
1National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, UK, 2University of Leeds, UK, 3University of Illinois, USA, 4University of Wyoming, USA, 5University of Manchester, UK, 6Met Office, UK, 7Met Office, UK
(video; position 0:00)
S3.2 Ice formation in convective clouds over southwest England
Jonathan Taylor*1, Tom Choularton1, Alan Blyth2, Zixia Liu1, Keith Bower1, Jonathan Crosier1,3, Martin Gallagher1, Paul Williams1,3, James Dorsey1,3, Michael Flynn1, Gillian Young1, Lindsay Bennett2, Yahui Huang2, Phil Rosenberg2, Jeff French4, Alexei Korolev5, Phil Brown6
1Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, UK, 2National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, UK, 3National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, UK, 4Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, USA, 5Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section, Environment Canada, Canada, 6Met Office, UK (video; position 14:05)
S3.3 Microphysical Structure of Elevated Convection in Winter Cyclones
Amanda Murphy*1, Robert Rauber1, Greg McFarquhar1, Brian Jewett1, David Plummer1,2, Joseph Finlon1, Andrew Rosenow1
1Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, USA (video; position 29:30)
S3.4 Microphysical implications of convection, turbulence, generating cells and other fine scale structures within a cyclone along the U.S. Northeast Coast: a first look at high resolution HIAPER Cloud Radar Observations
Robert Rauber*1, Scott Ellis2, Andrew Janiszeski1, J Vivekanandan2, Jeffrey Stith2, Wen-Chau Lee2, Greg McFarquhar1, Brian Jewett1
1University of Illinois, USA, 2National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA (video; position 0:00)
S.3.5 The microphysical properties and radiative consequences of frozen droplets in the upper regions of convective storms
Jeffrey Stith*1, Greg McFarquhar2, Junshik Um2
1National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
(video; position 16:45)
S3.6 Graupel and hail properties retrieval in supercells thunderstorms from airborne multifrequency radar and radiometer observations
Alessandro Battaglia*1,2, Frederic Tridon1, Kamil Mroz1, Simone Tanelli3, Tim Lang4, Gerry Heymsfield5, Lin Tian5
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK, 2National Center Earth Observation, University of Leicester, UK, 3Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA, 4NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA, 5NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA (video: position 0:00)
S3.7 How are changes in warm phase microphysics reflected in deep convective clouds?
Qian Chen*, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, Reuven Heiblum, Guy Dagan, Lital Pinto
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (video; postion 16:30)
S3.8 Aerosol-cloud interaction signal in a meteorological ensemble of convective precipitation from COPE
Annette Miltenberger*1, Paul Field1,2, Philip Rosenberg1, Adrian Hill2, Ben Shipway1, Jonathan Wilkinson2, Alan Blyth1
1University of Leeds, UK, 2MetOffice, UK (video; position 29:20)
S3.9 Storm Transport of Dust from the Boundary Layer to Upper Troposphere
Susan van den Heever*1, Leah Grant1, Stephen Herbener1, Amanda Sheffield1, Stephen Saleeby1, Cynthia Twohy2, Kathryn Sauter3, Tristan L’Ecuyer3, Catherine Naud4, Derek Posselt5
1Colorado State University, USA, 2NorthWest Research Associates, USA, 3University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, 4Columbia University, USA, 5University of Michigan, USA (video; position 0:00)
S3.10 Toward a PDF representation of deep convection: the importance and parameterization of hydrometeor transport
Mikhail Ovchinnikov*1, May Wong2
1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, 2National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
(video; position 16:15)
S3.11 Center-of-gravity vs. mass phase space – an efficient approach for analyzing interactions and key processes in cloud fields
Reuven H. Heiblum*1, Orit Altaratz1, Ilan Koren1, Graham Feingold2, Alexander Kostinski3, Alexander Khain4, Mikhail Ovchinnikov5, Erick Fredj1,6, Guy Dagan1, Lital Pinto1, Ricki Yaish1, Qian Chen1
1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Chemical Sciences Division, USA, 3Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, USA, 4The Institute of the Earth Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 5Atmosphere Science and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, 6(Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel (video; position 0:00)
S3.12 Controls on the Characteristics of Convective Clouds Associated with Sea Breeze Circulations
Adele L Igel*1, Jungmin Park1, Jill S Johnson2, Susan C van den Heever1, Ken S Carslaw2
1Colorado State University, USA, 2University of Leeds, UK (video; position 17:00)
S3.13 Assessing Clausius-Clapeyron scaling of moist convection over land within an idealized convection-resolving modeling framework
Linda Schlemmer*, Christoph Schär
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (video; position 0:00)
S3.14 Dynamical Influences on Cold Pool Development
George Bryan
National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA (video; position 13:20)

Poster session:

P3.1 A modified cumulus parameterization scheme and its applications in the simulation of heavy rainfall
XiBa Tang
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China
P3.2 The Use of Modern Information Technologies of Consolidation of Meteorological Information and of Machine Learning for Validation of the Numerical Model of Convective Cloud Intended for Operational Forecasting of Dangerous Convective Phenomena
Elena Stankova*, Dmitry Petrov, Andrey Balakshiy
Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
P3.3 Excessive Forecasts of Precipitation produced by poorly-resolved convective plumes in a point-wise semi-Lagrangian model
Jonathan Wilkinson*, Paul Field, Ben Shipway, Chris Smith, Simon Vosper, Stuart Webster, Nigel Wood, Mohamed Zerroukat
Met Office, UK
P3.4 The study of environmental conditions at the development of thunderstorms over Bulgaria
Boryana Markova*1, Rumjana Mitzeva2
1National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology – BAS, Bulgaria, 2Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
P3.5 Simulations of a squall line case from MC3E applying three different bin microphysics schemes
Lulin Xue*1, Zach Lebo2, Jiwen Fan3, Wei Wu4, István Geresdi5, Aaron Bansemer1, Xia Chu2, Hugh Morrison1, Roy Rasmussen1, Wojciech Grabowski1, Andy Heymsfield1, Greg McFarquhar4
1National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, 2University of Wyoming, USA, 3Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, 4University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 5University of Pecs, Hungary
P3.6 Climatological study on the morphology and environmental properties of quasi-stationary convective clusters during the warm season in Japan
Takashi Unuma, Tetsuya Takemi*
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
P3.7 Lifecycles of convective cloud morphology
Sarah Taylor*1, Philip Stier1, Bethan White1, Tobias Zinner2
1University of Oxford, UK, 2Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Germany
P3.8 The importance of multiple thermals in the production of ice and precipitation in COPE clouds
Yahui Huang*1, Alan Blyth1,2, Keith Browning2, Keith Bower3, Tom Choularton3, Philip Brown4, Jeffrey French5, David Leon5, Sonia Lasher-Trapp6
1University of Leeds, UK, 2National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK, 3University of Manchester, UK, 4Met Office, UK, 5University of Wyoming, USA, 6University of Illinois, USA
P3.9 A mesoscale model intercomparison study of a mid-latitude event observed during the HYMEX campaign
Celine Planche*1,2, Wolfram Wobrock1,2, Andrea Flossmann1,2, Christina Kagkara0
1Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, France, 2CNRS, INSU, UMR 6016, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, France
P3.10 Evolution of convective clouds initiated over mountains observed by Ka-band scanning Doppler radar and stereo photogrammetry
Ryohei Misumi*, Namiko Sakurai, Takeshi Maesaka, Shin-ichi Suzuki, Shingo Shimizu, Koyuru Iwanami
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan
P3.11 Hail cloud identification indexes based on Doppler radar data in Northwestern Fujian
Chen Binbin*1, Lin Changcheng1, Lin Wen1, Yang Kai1, Zhang Wei2
1Fujian Meteorological Science Institute, China, 2Longyan Meteorological Bureau, China
P3.12 An Investigation of Relationships between Wind Shear and Microphysical Pathways Leading to Convective Rainfall
Shailendra Kumar*1, Sonia Lasher-Trapp1, Daniel Moser1, Jeff French2, Alan Blyth3, David Leon2
1University of Illinois, USA, 2University of Wyoming, USA, 3NCAS, School of Earth and Environment, Univ. of Leeds, UK
P3.13 High-resolution numerical simulations of an unusual cloud formation
Guillaume Penide*1, Nicolas Ferlay1, Fanny Minvielle1, Timothy Garrett2
1LOA – University of Lille, France, 2University of Utah, USA
P3.14 Evaluation of the Microphysics of Precipitation with Multifrequency Radar Observations (EMPORiuM): a prospective study
Frederic Tridon*1, Celine Planche2,3, Alessandro Battaglia1,4, Marie Monier2,3, Joel Van Bealen2,3, Wolfram Wobrock2,3
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK, 2LaMP/UBP, UK, 3INSU/CNRS, UK, 4National Center Earth Observation, University of Leicester, UK
P3.15 Stochastic Parameterisation of Deep Convection Based on the Plant and Craig Approach Applied to the Bechtold Scheme
Leo Separovic*, Martin Charron, Paul Vaillancourt, Jing Yang, Ayrton Zadra
Recherche en Prévision Numérique Atmosphérique, Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
P3.16 THE ROLE OF VERTICAL WIND SHEAR IN THE GREAT PYROCUMULUS OF COSTA DEL SOL (MÁLAGA, SPAIN) ON 30 AUGUST 2012
Jose Maria Sánchez-Laulhé1, Miguel Angel Catalina2, Roberto Fraile*3, Maria Fernandez-Raga3
1AEMET, Málaga Meteorological Center, Spain, 2Regional Service against fire (INFOCA) in Málaga, Spain, 3University of León. Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics, IMARENAB, Spain
P3.17 Drawing insights from a bin microphysical scheme to improve a bulk scheme in a simulation of a 3-dimensional squall line
Gregory Thompson*1, Sarah Tessendorf1, Istvan Geresdi2, Noemi Sarkadi2
1NCAR-RAL, USA, 2Univ of Pecs, Hungary, Hungary
P3.18 A pseudo-aerosol convective invigoration effect caused by meteorology
Adam Varble
University of Utah, USA
P3.19 Comparison of ice particle size distributions observed during MC3E in trailing stratiform outflow with NU-WRF simulations using diagnostic and prognostic droplet number concentrations
Ann Fridlind*1, Xiaowen Li2,3, Di Wu2,4, Marcus van Lier-Walqui1,5, Wei-Kuo Tao2, Andrew Ackerman1, Greg McFarquhar6, Wei Wu6, Xiquan Dong7, Jingyu Wang7
1NASA GISS, USA, 2NASA GSFC, USA, 3Morgan State University, USA, 4Science Systems and Applications, Inc., USA, 5Columbia University, USA, 6University of Illinois, USA, 7University of North Dakota, USA
P3.20 Analysis of convective updraft characteristics: Comparing models and observations using KDP columns
Marcus van Lier-Walqui*1,2, Ann Fridlind2, Andrew Ackerman2, Di Wu3,4, Xiaowen Li5,4, Wei-Kuo Tao4, Pavlos Kollias6, Alexander Ryzhkov7,8, Scott Collis9
1Columbia University, USA, 2NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA, 3Science Systems and Applicaitons Inc., USA, 4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, 5Morgan State University, USA, 6Stonybrook University, USA, 7University of Oklahoma, USA, 8NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, USA, 9Argonne National Laboratory, USA
P3.21 Application of High Speed Imaging (HSI) probe in the characterization of glaciated and mixed-phase conditions in deep convective clouds
Biagio Esposito*1, Alexei Korolev2, Mengistu Wolde3
1Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Italy, 2Environment Canada, Canada, 3National Research Council, Canada
P3.22 Characterization of tropical convective cloud structure using an airborne G-band Radiometer and W-band cloud radar in the HIWC environment
Mengistu Wolde*1, Cuong Nguyen1, Philip Gabriel2, Alexei Korolev3
1National Research Council of Canada, Canada, 2General Analytics LLC, USA, 3Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada