Interaction of Convection and Large-Scale Tropical Flows
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The goal of this project is to better understand the interaction            between deep convection in the tropics and large-scale atmospheric              flows.  The principal investigator will develop a dynamical model of            the Hadley circulation, or broad band of deep convection located on             or near the equator.  Cumulus clouds in certain parts of the model              domain will be explicitly resolved using a nested-grid (high                    resolution grid within a coarser resolution grid) approach.                     Important physical processes such as cloud-radiation interactions,              latitudinal organization of deep convection, and the exchanges of               sensible heat, water vapor, and momentum at the air-sea interface               will be simulated.                                                                  This research is important for improving our understanding of the           general circulation of the atmosphere in weather and climate models.            It should also provide insights as how best to represent (implicitly)           cumulus cloud activity in large-scale and global models.
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