Fig. 5: Relationships between precipitation intensity and buoyancy, entraining CAPE, and upstream MSE transport. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 5: Relationships between precipitation intensity and buoyancy, entraining CAPE, and upstream MSE transport.

From: Novel perspectives on multiple-peak diurnal convection over a tropical mountainous island from idealized large-eddy simulations

Fig. 5

a The relationships between precipitation intensity and local buoyancy over the precipitation hotspots during the first (left) and the second (right) rainfall peaks of the RH54 simulation. The values in the upper left and right corners represent the sample sizes and correlation coefficients, respectively. b similar to (a) but the relationships between precipitation intensity and entraining CAPE (see Section "Relating Buoyancy, CAPE and Upstream MSE Transport" for definition) one hour before precipitation occurs. c similar to (b) but the relationships between precipitation intensity and upstream MSE within 20 km from the precipitation hotspots. These correlations passed the t-tests and are statistically significant at the 95% confidence level.

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