Observing convective activities in complex convective organizations and their contributions to precipitation and anvil cloud amounts

Wang, Zhenquan; Yuan, Jian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13811-2024

Articles | Volume 24, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13811-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-13811-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 23

Research article

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12 Dec 2024

Research article |

| 12 Dec 2024

Observing convective activities in complex convective organizations and their contributions to precipitation and anvil cloud amounts

Zhenquan Wang and Jian Yuan

Data sets

Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL1CLOTH) Scott Giangrande et al. https://doi.org/10.5439/1996113

GPM IMERG Final Precipitation L3 Half Hourly 0.1 degree x 0.1 degree V07 George J. Huffman et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-HH/07

Balloon-Borne Sounding System (SONDEWNPN) Evan Keeler et al. https://doi.org/10.5439/1595321

SatCORPS CERES GEO Edition 4 MTSAT-1R NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/MTS01/CERES

Short summary

Tropical convection organizations are normally connected complexes of many convective activities. In this work, a novel variable-brightness-temperature segment tracking algorithm is established to partition the complex convective organizations into structural components of single cold cores for tracking separately. The duration, precipitation and anvil amount of the tracked organization segments have strong loglinear relationships with brightness temperature structures.