4 papers
Aerosol invigoration of atmospheric convection through increases in humidity
Tristan H. Abbott, Timothy W. Cronin
Cloud-aerosol interactions remain a major obstacle to understanding climate and severe weather. Observations suggest that aerosols enhance tropical thunderstorm activity; past rese…
Convective dynamics and the response of precipitation extremes to warming in radiative-convective equilibrium
Tristan H. Abbott, Timothy W. Cronin, Tom Beucler
Tropical precipitation extremes are expected to strengthen with warming, but quantitative estimates remain uncertain because of a poor understanding of changes in convective dynami…
Comparing Convective Self-Aggregation in Idealized Models to Observed Moist Static Energy Variability near the Equator
Tom Beucler, Tristan Abbott, Timothy Cronin +1
Idealized convection-permitting simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) have become a popular tool for understanding the physical processes leading to horizontal vari…
Hot Hydrogen Climates near the inner edge of the Habitable Zone
Daniel D. B. Koll, Timothy W. Cronin
Young terrestrial planets can capture or outgas hydrogen-rich atmospheres with tens to hundreds of bars of H2, which persist for 100 Myrs or longer. Although the earliest habitable…