Cold Pools as Conveyor Belts of Moisture

• Published in: Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr
• Main Authors: Fuglestvedt, Herman F, Haerter, Haerter O
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Washington American Geophysical Union 28.02.2020
• Subjects: Air parcels; Air temperature; Atmospheric convection; Belt conveyors; Boundaries; Cold; Cold pools; Convection; Convergence; Fluxes; Funnels; Large eddy simulation; Large eddy simulations; Moisture; Outflow; Pools; Surface fluxes; Surface temperature; Updraft

Observations and simulations have found convective cold pools to trigger and organize subsequent updrafts by modifying near-surface temperature and moisture as well as by lifting air parcels at the outflow boundaries. We study the causality between cold pools and subsequent deep convection in an ide...