Abstract: Cumulus congestus is the middle mode of tropical convection, with cloud tops around or exceeding the 0°C level (∼5 km AGL). While some congestus are terminal, meaning capped by the 0°C stable layer, others are transient ...

Abstract: Haboobs are dust storms formed by strong surface winds in convective storm outflow boundaries, or cold pools, which can loft large quantities of mineral dust as they propagate. Both cold pools and the dust they loft are ...

Abstract: An intercomparison of raindrop mean diameter frequency distribution (RDFD) is performed for numerical simulations of precipitating cloud systems using an array of models and microphysics schemes. This includes results from ...

Abstract: A trimodal convective cloud distribution is commonly observed within the tropics due to the tropical-mean thermodynamic environment. The goal of this research has been to examine the integrated impacts of thermodynamic and ...