The Response of Tropical Rainfall to Idealized Small‐Scale Thermal and Mechanical Forcing

The Response of Tropical Rainfall to Idealized Small‐Scale Thermal and Mechanical Forcing Velez‐Pardo, Martin; Cronin, Timothy W Predicting the spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall remains a key challenge in Tropical Meteorology, partly due to an incomplete understanding of the effects of different environmental factors on atmospheric convection. In this work, we use numerical simulations of tropical ocean domains to study how rainfall responds to imposed localized thermal and mechanical forc