Spatial Dispersion and Statistical Description of Organized Cumulus Cloud Ensembles in Radiative Convective Equilibrium
J. Savre
Abstract:Descriptions of cloud ensembles in radiative convective equilibrium (RCE) rely mostly on the assumption that clouds are randomly distributed in space, a hypothesis that obviously fails in presence of strong organization. In this work, idealized RCE simulations at horizontal grid spacings ranging from 2 km to 125 m are analyzed, displaying a transition between complete randomness at coarse resolution to a high degree of cold pool driven organization at high resolution. The objective is then twofold: (a) charact… Show more
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