The Heated Condensation Framework. Part II: Climatological Behavior of Convective Initiation and Land–Atmosphere Coupling over the Conterminous United States

摘要: AbstractThis is Part II of a two-part study introducing the heated condensation framework (HCF), which quantifies potential convective state atmosphere in terms land–atmosphere interactions. I introduced full suite HCF variables and applied them to case studies with observations models over single location southern Great Plains. It was shown that capable identifying locally initiated convection quantifying energetically favorable pathways for initiation. Here, entire conterminous United States climatology initiation (CI) relation local coupling (LoCo) explored 34 summers (June–August) using North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) observations. NARR found be capturing threshold (buoyant mixing temperature θBM) energy advantage transition (energy θadv) most Sta...