A model study on the influence of overshooting convection on TTL water vapour

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research has been partially funded by the Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects (DP0770381) and Future Fellowships (FT0990892) schemes. The authors wish to thank Tim Hume (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) for providing the corrected TWP-ICE radiosonde data and Jason Knievel (NCAR) for supplying the code and instructions for the implementation of passive scalars in the WRF model. Thank you also to Andy Heymsfield (NCAR), Andrew Gettelman (NCAR), Greg Thompson (NCAR), Peter May (Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, CAWCR) and Kathrin Wapler (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) for helpful discussions. Computing facilities were provided by the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC). Finally, we would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers who helped improve the paper.