Theoretical and operational implications of atmospheric convective organization

Abstract

Despite its potential importance, we are still far from including convective organization explicitly within parameterization algorithms. As one participant from Météo-France remarked, the operational priorities always remain the closure and entrainment-detrainment problems. No one objected to this remark, except for possibly regarding downdrafts as another priority. The effects of organization may somehow be implicitly taken into account within our current frameworks, but no specific proposal from participants was heard. © 2012 American Meteorological Society.