Environmental Controls on Tropical Sea Breeze Convection and Resulting Aerosol Redistribution Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Sea breeze fronts propagate inland from the coastline, driving convective initiation and aerosol redistribution. Forecasting sea breezes is challenging due to uncertainties in the initial conditions, as well asthe covariance and interaction of various meteorological and surface parameters. Using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System coupled to an interactive land ‐surface model, we conduct an ensemble of 130 idealized cloud ‐resolving simulations by simultaneously perturbing six atmospheric and four surface parameters describing the initial conditions. To identify the key parameters impacting the inland characteristics and the intensity of the sea breeze convection in a tropical rainforest, we apply statistical emulation and variance ‐based sensitivity analysis techniques. This study extends a previous study which