Data - The unreasonable efficiency of total rain evaporation removal in triggering convective self-aggregation

This repository contains the data, scripts, SAM codes and files required to reproduce the results of the manuscript "The Unreasonable Efficiency of Total Rain Evaporation Removal in Triggering Convective Self-Aggregation" submitted to the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). Brief description of project: This project aims to examine the impact of rain evaporation removal or reduction in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) on convective self aggregation (CSA). Non-rotating radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) simulations were conducted with the System for Atmospheric Modeling (SAM) cloud resolving model. Rain evaporation in the lowest 1 km was progressively reduced and the effect on CSA was investigated. The physical processes underlying this type of aggregation (referred to in the manuscript as no-evaporation CSA, or NE-CSA) were analyzed and described. The default SAM code base (version 6.10.8) can be downloaded from here: http://rossby.msrc.sunysb.edu/~marat/SAM.html