This National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $440,412 to the University of Virginia from September 2022 through August 2026 to conduct collaborative research characterizing interactions between tropical deep convection and the environment using a buoyancy framework. The research team will study how tropical convection interacts with its surrounding environment using a new framework focusing on entrainment of near-surface air into storms. In addition, the team will organize a workshop bringing together early-career scientists and students in the tropical convection research community. The overarching goal is to continue identifying a conceptual model for tropical deep convection that can explain precipitation variability across scales, building upon the "precipitation-buoyancy framework" relating precipitation to estimates of entraining plume buoyancy.
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