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Nuijens, Louise (author), Emanuel, Kerry (author), Masunaga, Hirohiko (author), L’Ecuyer, Tristan (author)Space-borne observations reveal that 20–40% of marine convective clouds below the freezing level produce rain. In this paper we speculate what the prevalence of warm rain might imply for convection and large-scale circulations over tropical oceans. We present results using a two-column radiative–convective model of hydrostatic, nonlinear flow...journal article 2017