Thresholds for Atmospheric Convection in Amazonian Rainforests

The Amazon rainforest is known as the “Green Ocean” for its maritime‐like convection and cloud microphysics during the wet season. Although previous studies suggest the dominant thermodynamic processes involved in deep convection may differ between land and ocean, a comprehensive understanding of the thermodynamics of Amazonian convection is lacking. Using 404,971 daytime precipitating cloud profiles from the CloudSat satellite, we observe a...