In a sufficiently unstable local atmosphere, this causes the convection to reach far higher, and to condense large amounts of water vapor, which fall as rain showers. If the rising motions are ...

The abrupt enhancement of convective activity (precipitation) over the northeast of the Philippines in late July, known as the "convection jump," is closely related to the end of the rainy season in ...

When the convection jump occurs ... upper-tropospheric mid-latitudes as well as the previously revealed coupled atmosphere-ocean system in the tropics related to the warm sea surface temperature.