Convective Rain

Convective rain is precipitation produced by deep, buoyancy-driven convection, often with high short-term intensity and strong local variability.

It differs from stratiform rain in organization, duration, and intensity structure, and it is often more difficult to represent accurately in coarse-grid models.

Understanding convective rainfall is therefore central to hazard analysis, urban drainage planning, and model parameterization evaluation.

See also: Precipitation, Cumulus convection schemes, Convective available potential energy