Mesoscale convective systems

By R. Houze. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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A Global High‐Resolution Mesoscale Convective System Database Using Satellite‐Derived Cloud Tops, Surface Precipitation, and Tracking (2021, background): “It consists of an ensemble of cumulonimbus towers that produce a contiguous precipitation area of 100 km or larger (Houze, 2004, 2014 Chapter 9; Houze, 2018).”
New Ocean Winds Satellite Mission to Probe Hurricanes and Tropical Convection (2016, background): “The next steps involve statistical analyses of the collocation database.”
Could Machine Learning Break the Convection Parameterization Deadlock? (2018, background): “…convection do not capture much of the degree of organization, nor do they represent mesoscale convective systems (MCS), [ Hohenegger and Stevens , 2016] though the latter are likely essential to accurate simulation and prediction of extreme rainfall events [ Houze , 2004; Tan et al. , 2015].”
ATMOSPHERIC MOIST CONVECTION (2005, background): “Generically, such features are called mesoscale convective systems, MCSs, which Houze (2004) defines as any “cumulonimbus cloud system that produces a contiguous precipitation area greater than 100 km in any one direction.””
The mesoscale convection life cycle: building block or prototype for large-scale tropical waves? (2006, background): “Houze (2004) offers a recent review of MCSs.”
Cracking the MJO nut (2013, background): “[3] Tropical convection commonly organizes into larger systems, such as mesoscale convective systems or MCSs [Houze, 2004] to convectively coupled waves [Takayabu, 1994; Wheeler and Kiladis, 1999], including superclusters or Kelvin waves [Nakazawa, 1988], which are key dynamical elements of theMJO…”
Simulating North American mesoscale convective systems with a convection-permitting climate model (2017, background): “Our 4 km grid spacing model is too coarse to realistically simulate single cell thunderstorms, however, Mesoscale Convective Systems [MCSs, Houze (2004)] that consist of a complex of thunderstorms that become organized, can be captured.”
Structure and Evolution of Mesoscale Convective Systems: Sensitivity to Cloud Microphysics in Convection‐Permitting Simulations Over the United States (2018, background): “They can reach horizontal dimensions of hundreds to a thousand kilometer and can last up to 24 hr (Houze, 2004).”
Spectral Retrieval of Latent Heating Profiles from TRMM PR Data. Part IV: Comparisons of Lookup Tables from Two- and Three-Dimensional Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations (2009, positive): “Because differences in diabatic heating proﬁles exist between convective and stratiform regions of MCSs (Houze 1982, 1989, 1997, 2004; Johnson 1984, 2006), the accuracy of this classiﬁcation is very important in estimating latent heat released by precipitating cloud systems, which is one of the key ”
Physical mechanisms controlling the initiation of convective self‐aggregation in a General Circulation Model (2015, background): “…convection can exhibit a large diversity of organizations, ranging from random distribution of convective clouds to mesoscale convective systems [Houze, 2004], squall lines, and hurricanes to planetary-scale organization such as large superclusters [Nakazawa, 1988; Mapes and Houze, 1993] or the…”
Physical mechanisms controlling self‐aggregation of convection in idealized numerical modeling simulations (2013, background): “Clusters of organized convection are ubiquitous in the tropics [Mapes et al., 2009; Futyan and Del Genio, 2007; Houze, 2004; Nesbitt et al., 2000; Machado and Rossow, 1993; Mapes and Houze, 1993] and have important impacts on weather and climate.”