@article {Peleg2018,
	title = {Intensification of convective rain cells at warmer temperatures observed from high-resolution weather radar data},
	journal = {Journal of Hydrometeorology},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {JHM{\textendash}D{\textendash}17{\textendash}0158.1},
	abstract = {AbstractThis study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between air temperature and convection by analyzing the characteristics of rainfall at the storm and convective rain cell scales. High spatial-temporal resolution (1-km, 5-min) estimates from a uniquely long weather radar record (24-year) were coupled with near-surface air temperature over Mediterranean and semiarid regions in the eastern Mediterranean. In the examined temperature range (5 to 25{\textdegree}C), the peak intensity of individual convective rain cells was found to increase with temperature, but at lower rate than the 7\%{\textdegree}C-1 scaling expected from the Clausius-Clapeyron relation, while the area of the individual convective rain cells slightly decrease or, at most, remains unchanged. At the storm-scale, the areal convective rainfall was found to increase with warmer temperatures, whereas the areal non-convective rainfall and the storm-wide area decrease. This suggests an enhanced moisture convergence from the storm-wide extent towards the convective rain cells. Results indicate a reduction in the total rainfall amounts and an increased heterogeneity of the spatial structure of the storm rainfall for temperatures increasing up to 25{\textdegree}C. Thermodynamic conditions, analyzed using convective available potential energy, were determined to be similar between Mediterranean and semiarid regions. Limitation in the atmospheric moisture availability when shifting from Mediterranean to semiarid climates was detected and explains the suppression of the intensity of the convective rain cells when moving towards drier regions. The relationships obtained in this study are relevant for nearby regions characterized by Mediterranean and semiarid climates.},
	issn = {1525-755X},
	doi = {10.1175/JHM-D-17-0158.1},
	url = {http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JHM-D-17-0158.1},
	author = {Peleg, Nadav and Marra, Francesco and Fatichi, Simone and Molnar, Peter and Morin, Efrat and Sharma, Ashish and Burlando, Paolo}
}
