A43N:
Warm Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change From the Cloud- to the Global Scale II

Session ID#: 1730

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States
Primary Convener:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Co-Convener:  Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

What controls drizzle initiation? Insights from a comparison of large-eddy simulations with observations (27736)
Mikael Witte1, Patrick Y Chuang2, Lian-Ping Wang3 and Orlando Ayala3,4, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)Old Dominion University, Gloucester, VA, United States
Observed Trends in Subtropical Stratocumulus and Associated Meteorology (11180)
Seethala Chellappan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Joel R Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Timothy A Myers, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and observational
Satellite Retrieval of Marine Stratocumulus Surface Coupling State and its Effect on the Clouds Cellular Organization (15742)
Tom Goren, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Regional Fast Cloud Feedback Assessment As Constraint on Global Climate Sensitivity (Invited) (3225)
Johannes Quaas1, Philipp Kuehne2, Karoline Block2 and Marc Salzmann2, (1)University Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Ship Tracks Using Terra MODIS/MISR (10639)
YI-Chun Chen1, Matthew Christensen2, David J Diner3, Michael J Garay4 and David L Nelson1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Aircraft- and ground-based assessment of the CCN-AOD relationship and implications on model analysis of ACI and underlying aerosol processes (19172)
Yohei Shinozuka, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, Antony D Clarke, Univ Hawaii/Dept Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, Athanasios Nenes, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, Terry L Lathem, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, Jens Redemann, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, Anne Jefferson, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert Wood, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States
Simulating Feedbacks Between Stratocumulus Cloud Dynamics, Microphysics and Aerosols Over Large Scales. (12105)
Daniel Peter Grosvenor1, Paul Field1,2, Adrian A Hill2 and Ben J Shipway2, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)United Kingdom Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
The Subtropical Cloud Transition: From the Turbulence Scale to Global Climate (Invited) (3374)
Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States