A Mass-Flux Scheme View of a High-Resolution Simulation of a Transition from Shallow to Deep Cumulus Convection

By Z. Kuang, Chris Bretherton. 2006

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The Formation of Wider and Deeper Clouds as a Result of Cold-Pool Dynamics (2014, background): “One frequently discussed mechanism is an increase of the cloud diameter (Kuang and Bretherton 2006; Khairoutdinov and Randall 2006).”
Shifting the diurnal cycle of parameterized deep convection over land (2009, background): “…introduced here allow to account for the role played on deep convection development by cloud base layer [Chaboureau et al., 2004] or tropospheric [Derbyshire et al., 2004] humidity, by the size of thermals at cloud base [Kuang and Bretherton, 2006], and by wakes [Khairoutdinov and Randall, 2006].”
An Analytical Model for Tropical Relative Humidity (2014, background): “It is well known that deep convection is unable to sustain such undiluted ascent in the earth’s current atmosphere (e.g., Kuang and Bretherton 2006; Romps and Kuang 2010a; Fierro et al. 2012).”
A Stochastic Parameterization for Deep Convection Based on Equilibrium Statistics (2008, background): “Indeed, Kuang and Bretherton (2006) have recently found support for this notion from CRM simulations.”
LMDZ5B: the atmospheric component of the IPSL climate model with revisited parameterizations for clouds and convection (2013, background): “Some authors favor for instance the idea of unified convection schemes (Kuang and Bretherton, 2006; Hohenegger and Bretherton, 2011).”
Mechanisms for convection triggering by cold pools (2015, background): “In recent years, different authors have suggested that the subcloud layer is a crucial component in the rapid transition from shallow to deep convection [Tompkins, 2001; Chaboureau et al., 2004; Khairoutdinov and Randall, 2006; Kuang and Bretherton, 2006; Zhang and Klein, 2010; Böing et al., 2012].”
Subsiding Shells Around Shallow Cumulus Clouds (2008, background): “This may result in more favorable conditions for growth of subsequent clouds, as suggested by Telford and Wagner (1980) and Kuang and Bretherton (2006).”
The University of Washington Shallow Convection and Moist Turbulence Schemes and Their Impact on Climate Simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model (2009, background): “Cloud-resolving simulations of precipitating tropical oceanic deep convection imply smaller values of c ’ 2–3, perhaps because of the boundary layer updrafts become broader when organized by cold pool dynamics (Kuang and Bretherton 2006).”
Influence of the subcloud layer on the development of a deep convective ensemble (2012, background): “Cloud core volume-mean buoyancy excess remains limited to under 0.5 K in all simulations [as in Kuang and Bretherton (2006)], but the cloud cores maintain much larger buoyancy in the reference simulation as compared to the modified ones.”
A Moisture-Stratiform Instability for Convectively Coupled Waves (2008, background): “…of tropical convection is well supported by observations, numerical simulations, and theoretical reasoning (Brown and Zhang, 1997;Sherwood, 1999;Parsons et al., 2000;Redelsperger et al., 2002;Ridout, 2002;Derbyshire et al., 2004;Takemi et al., 2004;Roca et al., 2005;Kuang and Bretherton, 2006).”
Mechanisms of convective cloud organization by cold pools over tropical warm ocean during the AMIE/DYNAMO field campaign (2015, result): “Similar relationships between entrainment rate and cloud size modulated by cold pools are found in other studies as well [e.g., Khairoutdinov and Randall, 2006; Kuang and Bretherton, 2006].”
Large‐Eddy Simulation of Maritime Deep Tropical Convection (2009, background): “This study supports previous findings that cold pools play a very important role in organizing deep convection on the mesoscale and in triggering new deep convective cells (Tompkins 2001; Kuang and Bretherton 2006; Khairoutdinov and Randall 2006).”
Entrainment and detrainment in cumulus convection: an overview (2013, methodology): “Whereas the first type of entrainment has the characteristics of advective transport across the interface, turbulent entrainment is of diffusive nature and is therefore often described with an eddy diffusivity approach (Kuo (1962), Asai and Kasahara (1967)).”
The Role of Entrainment in the Diurnal Cycle of Continental Convection (2010, background): “For example, Kuang and Bretherton (2006), who also infer entrainment from a CRM, find mean upper-level entrainment rates of ;0.3 km21 in a maritime case study.”
Influence of entrainment on the thermal stratification in simulations of radiative‐convective equilibrium (2013, methodology): “A role for entrainment in helping to determine cloud buoyancies in moist convection is supported by CRM simulations and some observational studies [e.g., Derbyshire et al., 2004; Holloway and Neelin, 2009; Kuang and Bretherton, 2006; Romps and Kuang, 2010; Zipser, 2003; Molinari et al., 2012].”
Do Undiluted Convective Plumes Exist in the Upper Tropical Troposphere (2010, methodology): “As an alternative, Kuang and Bretherton (2006) diagnose entrainment rates in deep convection using moist static energy (MSE), which is approximately conserved even in the presence of precipitation.”
A Dual Mass Flux Framework for Boundary Layer Convection. Part I: Transport (2009, background): “Recent CRM results suggest the mass flux concept also applies to deeper convection (Kuang and Bretherton 2006).”