Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Water Vapor

By Adrian M. Tompkins. 2001

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Large-Scale Meteorology and Deep Convection during TRMM KWAJEX* (2004, background): “Whatever the specific mechanism, besides having been suggested theoretically, an important role for relative humidity in the lower free troposphere in controlling convection has been seen in some numerical modeling (e.g., Tompkins 2001; Sobel and Bretherton 2003) and observational studies (e.g., S”
Organization of Tropical Convection in Low Vertical Wind Shears: The Role of Cold Pools (2001, methodology): “Tompkins and Craig (1998) have already shown that the (convectively determined) water vapor field, along with clouds, influences the radiative forcing in such a way as to strongly organize tropical convection.”
An Energy-Balance Analysis of Deep Convective Self-Aggregation above Uniform SST (2005, methodology): “In our 3D simulations and the bowling alley simulations of Tompkins (2001), water vapor–convection feedback dominates and creates a nearly stationary mode of self-aggregation.”
A Cumulus Parameterization with State-Dependent Entrainment Rate. Part I: Description and Sensitivity to Temperature and Humidity Profiles (2010, background): “…Bretherton et al. 2004b; Sobel et al. 2004; Biasutti et al. 2006; Peters and Neelin 2006; Takayabu et al. 2006; Neelin et al. 2008) and CRM results (Tompkins 2001; Redelsperger et al. 2002; Grabowski 2003; Derbyshire et al. 2004), which showed suppression of deep convection under dry condition.”
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.”
The Mechanics of Gross Moist Stability (2009, background): “Moisture modes also arise in the mesoscale simulations with parameterized convection by Sobel and Bretherton (2003) as well as in the three-dimensional, cloud-resolving simulations of Tompkins (2001), Bretherton et al. (2005), and Stephens et al. (2008).”
Coupling Cloud Processes with the Large-Scale Dynamics Using the Cloud-Resolving Convection Parameterization (CRCP) (2001, background): “These features are essential for convection organization (e.g., Moncrieff and Miller 1976; Rotunno et al. 1988; Mapes 1993; Oouchi 1999; Tompkins 2001).”
Mechanisms for convection triggering by cold pools (2015, background): “As noted by various authors [e.g., Tompkins, 2001; Schlemmer and Hohenegger, 2014; Li et al., 2014], the edges of cold pools contain air parcels in which falling precipitation evaporated in the subcloud layer and, accordingly, are colder and moister than the horizontal average.”
A Numerical Investigation of the Effects of Dry Air Aloft on Deep Convection (2009, background): “Tompkins (2001) showed using a long-duration simulation of convection over the tropical ocean that the introduction of dry air to the convective environment above the cloud base greatly inhibited the convection.”
Bimodality in tropical water vapour (2003, background): “Humidity distribution at 10 km from a cloud-resolving model (Tompkins 2001).”
High-Resolution Simulation of Shallow-to-Deep Convection Transition over Land (2006, background): “It is well established that the vertical growth of cumulus clouds can be influenced by the humidity in the free troposphere (e.g., Lin and Johnson 1996; Tompkins 2001a; Redelsperger et al. 2002).”
The Transition to Strong Convection (2009, background): “…through the lower troposphere is supported by a growing body of observational evidence (Austin 1948; Yoneyama and Fujitani 1995; Wei et al. 1998; Raymond et al. 1998; Sherwood 1999; Parsons et al. 2000; Raymond 2000; Tompkins 2001; Redelsperger et al. 2002; Sobel et al. 2004; Tian et al. 2006).”
Intraseasonal Variability in an Aquaplanet General Circulation Model (2010, background): “…Neelin and Yu 1994, Sobel et al. 2001, Raymond 2001, Fuchs and Raymond 2007, Sugiyama 2009 a,b; Raymond and Fuchs 2009, Raymond et al. 2009), as well as mesoscale and cloud-resolving models run under idealized conditions (e.g., Tompkins 2001, Sobel and Bretherton 2003, Bretherton et al. 2005).”
The Kain–Fritsch Convective Parameterization: An Update (2004, background): “Environmental humidity is obviously important here, consistent with its operative role in determining downdraft strength (Knupp and Cotton 1985; Tompkins 2001) and precipitation efficiency (Ferrier et al.”
Tropical cyclogenesis sensitivity to environmental parameters in radiative–convective equilibrium (2007, methodology): “Our simulations with interactive long-wave radiation, but no short-wave radiation, lie somewhere between the extremes in radiative interaction defined by the Tompkins (2001) and the Bretherton et al. (2005) studies.”