Fildier Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2023

Revisiting Rainfall Extremes with Ensembles of Convective Objects aNd their Continuum of Interactions with the Large-scale Environment

As climate changes, weather becomes more severe. This has been of long-standing concern, and difficulties arise in connecting the two different ranges of scales involved. Hail, rainshowers and strong winds result from the local dynamics of cloud updrafts, while the general circulation determines the relative occurrence of convective regimes to maintain energy balance. Historically, limitations in computing power mostly led to separate analyses of cloud dynamics and the large-scale circulation. The mesoscales, in-between, host a rich ecosystem of weather features, organized in a diversity of shapes and morphologies but overly simplified in traditional climate models. This scale separation…

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