Widespread shallow mesoscale circulations observed in the trades

G George, B Stevens, S Bony, R Vogel… - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the drivers of cloud organization is crucial for accurately estimating cloud
feedbacks and their contribution to climate warming. Shallow mesoscale circulations are …

Shallow cumulus cloud fields are optically thicker when they are more clustered

P Alinaghi, M Janssens, G Choudhury… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow trade cumuli over subtropical oceans are a persistent source of uncertainty in
climate projections. Mesoscale organization of trade cumulus clouds has been shown to …

Computational Domain Size Effects on Large-Eddy Simulations of Precipitating Shallow Cumulus Convection

O Lamaakel, R Venters, J Teixeira, G Matheou - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Idealized large-eddy simulations of shallow convection often utilize horizontally periodic
computational domains. The development of precipitation in shallow cumulus convection …

Kilometer‐Scale Simulations of Trade‐Wind Cumulus Capture Processes of Mesoscale Organization

L Saffin, A Lock, L Tomassini, A Blyth… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds–circulation coupling in climate) and
ATOMIC (Atlantic Tradewind Ocean‐Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign) joint …

External drivers and mesoscale self‐organization of shallow cold pools in the trade‐wind regime

P Alinaghi, AP Siebesma, F Jansson… - Journal of Advances …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Recent observations of the trade‐wind regions highlight the covariability between cold‐pool
properties and mesoscale cloud organization. Given the covariability of organization with …

The time scale of shallow convective self‐aggregation in large‐eddy simulations is sensitive to numerics

M Janssens, J Vilà‐Guerau de Arellano… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Numerical simulations of the tropical mesoscales often exhibit a self‐reinforcing feedback
between cumulus convection and shallow circulations, which leads to the self‐aggregation …

Measurement report: Cloud and environmental properties associated with aggregated shallow marine cumulus and cumulus congestus

E Crosbie, LD Ziemba, MA Shook… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Mesoscale organization of marine convective clouds into linear or clustered states is
prevalent across the tropical and subtropical oceans, and its investigation served as a …

On climate change and trade cumulus organization

J Kazil, P Narenpitak, T Yamaguchi… - Journal of Advances in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the role of mesoscale organization for the response of trade cumulus (Tc)
clouds to climate change. Among four recently identified states of Tc organization, the …

Influence of open ocean biogeochemistry on aerosol and clouds: Recent findings and perspectives

K Sellegri, R Simó, B Wang, PA Alpert… - Elementa: Science of …, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Aerosols and clouds are key components of the marine atmosphere, impacting the Earth's
radiative budget with a net cooling effect over the industrial era that counterbalances …

Ubiquitous Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Increase Spatial Heterogeneity of Trade Wind Cloudiness on Daily Time Scale

X Chen, J Dias, B Wolding, R Pincus… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The impact of weak submeso-to mesoscale SST anomalies on daily averaged trade
cumulus cloudiness is investigated using satellite observations that have been validated …