The interaction of deep convection with the general circulation in Titan's atmosphere. Part 1: Cloud Resolving Simulations.

ABSTRACT: The deep convective cloud-environment feedback loop is likely important to Titan's global methane, energy, and momentum cycles, just as it is for Earth's global water, energy, and momentum budgets. General circulation models of Titan's atmosphere are unable to explicitly simulate deep convection and must instead parameterize the impact of this important subgrid-scale phenomenon on the model-resolved atmospheric state. The goal of this study is to better quantify through cloud resolving modeling the effects of deep convective methane storms on their environment and to feed that information forward to improve parameterizations in global models. Dozens of atmospheric profiles unstable with respect to deep moist convection are extracted from the global Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM) and used to

SUBMITTER: Rafkin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature