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Estimating bulk entrainment with unaggregated and aggregated convection

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Becker,  Tobias
Hans Ertel Research Group Clouds and Convection, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;
IMPRS on Earth System Modelling, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Hohenegger,  Cathy
Hans Ertel Research Group Clouds and Convection, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Stevens,  Bjorn       
Director’s Research Group AES, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Becker, T., Bretherton, C. S., Hohenegger, C., & Stevens, B. (2018). Estimating bulk entrainment with unaggregated and aggregated convection. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 455-462. doi:10.1002/2017GL076640.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-F2E8-3
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To investigate how entrainment is influenced by convective organization, we use the ICON model in a radiative-convective equilibrium framework, with a 1\,km spatial grid mesh covering a 600 by 520\,km domain. We analyze two simulations, with unaggregated and aggregated convection, and find that, in the lower free troposphere, the bulk entrainment rate increases when convection aggregates. The increase of entrainment rate with aggregation is caused by a strong increase of turbulence in the close environment of updrafts, masking other effects like the increase of updraft size and of static stability with aggregation. Even though entrainment rate increases with aggregation, updraft buoyancy reduction through entrainment decreases because aggregated updrafts are protected by a moist shell. Parameterizations that wish to represent mesoscale convective organization would need to model this moist shell.