MITTEN-CI

The goal of the Maritime to Inland Transitions Towards ENvironments for Convection Initiation (MITTEN-CI) campaign is to develop the most thorough understanding to date of transitions in warm season boundary layer thermodynamic and kinematic structure due to inland advection of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MBL) in the Great Lakes coastal environment, and resultant impacts on convection initiation (CI) or failure thereof. Understanding such transitions and their convective implications has substantial broader impacts, given the significant portion of the human population that lives in coastal areas. Hypotheses are developed to target novel aspects of near-shore CI and boundary layer evolution that have received relatively little attention and enable operations under a wide range of synopticscale conditions, resulting in a high probability of success in our science goals.