Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Cold Pools

By Adrian M. Tompkins. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Mechanisms of convective cloud organization by cold pools over tropical warm ocean during the AMIE/DYNAMO field campaign (2015, methodology): “Previous studies suggest that the edges of cold pools are associated with enhanced moisture and recovering near-surface temperatures (i.e., less cold) due to mixing and surface fluxes, resulting in more unstable environment that favors triggering of new convection [Tompkins, 2001].”
Cloud‐resolving model intercomparison of an MC3E squall line case: Part I—Convective updrafts (2017, background): “…acceleration of air through (1) mechanical lifting such as the interactions between a cold pool with low-level wind shear (i.e., RKW theory discussed in the introduction) and (2) the thermodynamic forcing given by the positive anomaly of moist static energy surrounding cold pools [Tompkins, 2001].”
High-Resolution Simulation of Shallow-to-Deep Convection Transition over Land (2006, background): “…surface heterogeneity (e.g., Avissar 1995), sea breeze (e.g., Wakimoto and Atkins 1994), cold pools, and gust fronts due to evaporating precipitation (e.g., Wakimoto 1982; Kingsmill 1995), drylines (e.g., Bluestein and Parker 1993), horizontal convective rolls (e.g., Weckwerth et al. 1996), etc.”
The Formation of Wider and Deeper Clouds as a Result of Cold-Pool Dynamics (2014, background): “It is not clear from the current study if the additional moisture in these wet regions stems from earlier evaporation of precipitation as stated in Tompkins (2001b) or if the moisture present before the impact of the downdraft is pushed outward by the density current and transferred onto moist…”
A Prognostic Parameterization for the Subgrid-Scale Variability of Water Vapor and Clouds in Large-Scale Models and Its Use to Diagnose Cloud Cover (2002, methodology): “Tompkins 2001b) resulted in the poorest ﬁt using the beta distribution”
A Mass-Flux Scheme View of a High-Resolution Simulation of a Transition from Shallow to Deep Cumulus Convection (2006, background): “pools, as noted by Tompkins (2001). This mesoscale”
Influence of the subcloud layer on the development of a deep convective ensemble (2012, background): “Below cloud base, the particles were on average about 0.2 g kg21 moister than their environment, a value that agrees well with the deviations that Tompkins (2001b) finds near the outflow boundary.”
Modeling Aerosol Impacts on Convective Storms in Different Environments (2009, methodology): “We can examine the cold pool quantitatively, using the technique described by Tompkins (2001).”
Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Water Vapor (2001, background): “This has significant implications for our understanding of the relationship between SST, convection, and the large-scale flow in the Tropics, investigated further by Tompkins (2001a).”
Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: Role of updraft entrainment (2017, background): “Water vapor not only acts through its influence on the radiative heating; it also has a direct thermodynamical role in regulating convection [Tompkins, 2001a, b; Grabowski and Moncrieff , 2004].”