A12B
Atmospheric Circulations and Their Role in the Hydrological Cycle: Monsoons, Storm Tracks, and the ITCZ II

Monday, 14 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3006 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Robert Wills, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States; ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Tobias Bischoff1, Angeline G Pendergrass2 and Isla Simpson2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Robert Wills1, Tobias Bischoff1 and Jian Lu2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert Wills, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:20
Towards predictive understanding of atmospheric circulation change (Invited) (58451)
Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
10:35
On the role of circulation changes in future Northern Hemisphere hydroclimate change (Invited) (59717)
Richard Seager, Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Mingfang Ting, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States, Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
10:50
Towards constraining future rainfall in the Sahel using the moist static energy budget (73686)
Spencer A Hill, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Isaac Held, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States and Ming Zhao, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamis Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, United States
11:05
What Affects the Location of Tropical Precipitation? An Idealized Modeling Perspective (Invited) (61014)
Elizabeth Maroon, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
11:20
The global hydrological cycle in a climate model hierarchy (Invited) (80697)
Amy C Clement1, Brian Medeiros2, James J Benedict1 and Honghai Zhang3, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Princeton University, AOS, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:35
Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Heat Waves in the Great Plains (Invited) (59992)
Grant Branstator and Haiyan Teng, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:50
Local Finite-Amplitude Wave Activity as an Objective Diagnostic of Midlatitude Extreme Weather (74129)
Gang Chen1, Jian Lu2, David Alex Burrows1 and L. Ruby Leung2, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
12:05
How will precipitation change in extratropical cyclones as the planet warms? (86769)
Vineel Kumar Reddy Yettella, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Jennifer E Kay, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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