NVCL - Understanding Deep Convective Cloud Kinematic Processes and Their Responses to Aerosols

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Understanding Deep Convective Cloud Kinematic Processes and Their Responses to Aerosols

This project aims to fill knowledge gaps in our understanding of the lifecycle of deep convective clouds—the type of clouds present during thunderstorms—and how aerosols,

aerosols

Small particles or droplets, such as wildfire smoke, volcanic gases, or salty sea spray, that float in the air. They are emitted by both natural events and human activities.

Source: NASA Global Climate Change Source

tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere such as pollutants or sea spray, impact these systems.

Keywords	atmospheric radiative transfer, atmospheric radiative transfer The science of understanding how electromagnetic radiation emitted by both the Sun and Earth interacts with the gases, clouds and particles making up our atmosphere. Source: NOAA geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory Source convection-aerosol Interaction, convective cloud systems
TYPE	Early Career

Principal Investigator (PI)

Dié Wang

Lead Institution

Other Collaborators

Observatoire de Paris University of California San Diego

A grid of four charts with two showing a range of red to blue and another showing a range of blue, green, yellow, brown

Mean (a, c) and 95th percentile (b, d) vertical air motion profiles within the convective regions, sorted by cloud top height (the height of 10-dBZ radar echo) for 45 Amazon (top) and 16 Oklahoma (bottom) mesoscale convective systems. On subplots (a) and (c), the mean upward air motions are shown in reds and the mean downward air motions are shown in blues. (Image credit: Adapted from Wang et al., 2019)

For more information

Dié Wang
Brookhaven National Laboratory

https://science.osti.gov/early-career