Cumulus convection refers to the process of warm air rising from the Earth's surface and forming large, fluffy cloud formations called cumulus clouds. Full definition
Mahoney K. M. (November 2016): The representation of cumulus convection in high - resolution simulations of the 2013 Colorado Front Range Flood. (esrl.noaa.gov)
In - depth analysis reveals that the model's shallow cumulus convection scheme tends to significantly under - produce clouds during the times when shallow cumuli exist in the observations, while the deep convective and stratiform cloud schemes significantly over-produce low - level clouds throughout the day. (pubs.giss.nasa.gov)
In the baseline simulations, cumulus convection arose an hour into the exercise and generated clouds that very much resembled in appearance at least those photographed during INDOEX. (scientificamerican.com)