TY - JOUR AB - Organized convection in the tropics occurs across a range of spatial and temporal scales and strongly influences cloud cover and humidity. One mode of organization found is “self-aggregation,” in which moist convection spontaneously organizes into one or several isolated clusters despite spatially homogeneous boundary conditions and forcing. Self-aggregation is driven by interactions between clouds, moisture, radiation, surface fluxes, and circulation, and occurs in a wide variety of idealized simulations of radiative–convective equilibrium. Here we provide a review of convective self-aggregation in numerical simulations, including its character, causes, and effects. We describe the evolution of self-aggregation including its time and length scales and the physical mechanisms leading to its triggering and maintenance, and we also discuss possible links to climate and climate change. AU - Wing, Allison A. AU - Emanuel, Kerry AU - Holloway, Christopher E. AU - Muller, Caroline J ID - 9139 IS - 6 JF - Surveys in Geophysics KW - Geochemistry and Petrology KW - Geophysics SN - 0169-3298 TI - Convective self-aggregation in numerical simulations: A review VL - 38 ER -