“…We restrict our analysis to the dry season , defined as the period between January and April, following Brueck et al (). The reason for this choice is twofold: on the one hand, the focus of this study is on BL clouds, which are dominant in the dry season (Medeiros & Nuijens, ); on the other, the SCM is not ideally suited for simulating deep convection because, in its standard setup, it does not include the direct feedback of the deep convection on the dynamics. More complex setups allowing for the deep cumulus regime, such as the application of the weak temperature gradient method (e.g., Ruppert, ; Sobel et al, ), will be considered in future work.…”