Aeolis Research Inc

The Goal of This Project Is to Condense the Knowledge Derived From Explicit Modeling of Moist Convection Constrained by the 2010 GWS Observations Into a Parameterized Form Amenable for Use Within a GCM. This Process Intrinsically Includes Determining the Most Important Aspects of Moist Convection Within This Gas Giant Atmosphere and the Dependence of the Critical Processes on Larger Scale Motions. Improved Understanding of Moist Convection Will Be a Major Result in Itself. However Moist Convection Is Also Thought to Be a Key Processes in the Determination of the General Circulation of Gas Giant Atmospheres. General Circulation Models (GCMS) of Gas Giant Atmospheres Cannot Explicitly Resolve Small-scale Moist Convection and Currently Limited by the Need to Use Simplified Ad Hoc Representations of This Crucial Process Because of the Lack of Physically-based Moist Convection Parameterizations That Have Been Tested Against Observations. as Such This Project Will Also Yield Results That Have a Direct and Significant Impact on Understanding of the Global Circulation.