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How weakened cold pools open for convective self-aggregation
Silas Boye Nissen, Jan O. Haerter
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In radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) simulations, convective self-aggregation (CSA) is the spontaneous organization into segregated cloudy and cloud-free regions. Evidence exists for how CSA is stabilized, but how it arises favorably on large domains is not settled. Using large-eddy simulations (LES), we link the spatial organization emerging from the interaction of cold pools (CPs) to CSA. We systematically weaken simulated rain evaporation to reduce maximal CP radii, Rₘₐₓ, and find reducing Rₘₐₓ causes CSA to occur earlier. We further identify a typical rain cell generation time and a minimum radius, Rₘᵢₙ, around a given rain cell, within which the formation of subsequent rain cells is suppressed. Incorporating Rₘᵢₙ and Rₘₐₓ, we propose a toy model that captures how CSA arises earlier on large domains: when two CPs of radii r_(i,j)∈[Rₘᵢₙ,Rₘₐₓ] collide, they form a new convective event. These findings imply that interactions between CPs may explain the initial stages of CSA.
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