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Reconciling the Lack of a Robust Anvil Cloud Amount Response to Warming
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The stability-iris hypothesis proposes that tropical anvil cloud amount decreases with warming as anvils rise into environments of greater static stability. Here we show that there is no clear theoretical or simulated link between increasing static stability and anvil amount. We demonstrate analytically that identified sensitivities of static stability and pressure velocity to surface warming arise from decreasing air density aloft, which enters pressure-coordinate formulations but does not represent a process that dynamically constrains anvil formation. An ensemble of RCEMIP simulations verifies that the stability increase is robust yet arises from the air density reduction, and hence is not accompanied by a robust response in anvil amount, convectively driven water convergence into anvil levels, or the efficiency with which this convergence produces cloudiness. Overall, these findings dispel the expectation of a systematic reduction in anvil amount with warming arising from basic physical arguments.
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