GC54A:
Characterizing, Understanding, and Modeling Climate Extremes II

Session ID#: 1789

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France and Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States
Primary Convener:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France
Co-Convener:  Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC51A-0379
21st Century Changes in Precipitation Extremes Based on Resolved Atmospheric Patterns (27628)
Xiang Gao1, C Adam Schlosser2, Paul A O'Gorman2 and Erwan Monier3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
GC54A-02
Sensitivity of Statistical Downscaling Techniques to Reanalysis Choice and Implications for Regional Climate Change Scenarios (7793)
Dr. Swen Brands, PhD1, Rodrigo Manzanas Sr.2, Daniel San Martin Sr.3 and José Manuel Gutiérrez Sr.1, (1)Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain, (2)Grupo de Meteorlogia de Santander, Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Santander, Spain, (3)Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions, Santander, Spain
GC54A-03
Changes in Large Spatiotemporal Climatic Extreme Events Beyond the Mean Warming Signal (22464)
Sebastian Sippel, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Miguel Mahecha, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany and Friederike Elly Luise Otto, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
GC54A-04
Using Mixture Regression to Understand and Model Tropical Cyclone Intensification in Relation to the Environment and Climate (Invited) (4000)
Emmi Yonekura1, Ning Lin2, Yuyan Wang1 and Jianqing Fan1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
GC54A-05
Investigating Extreme Heat and Humidity in the Northeast United States from a Joint Hazard Perspective (25954)
Radley M Horton, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, Ethan Coffel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY, United States
GC54A-06
Regional Climate Model Simulation of Extreme Precipitation in North America (Invited) (4808)
Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Xungang Yin, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI-NC, Asheville, United States, Anne Frigon, Ouranos - Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change, Montreal, QC, Canada and Jacinthe Clavet-Gaumont, Ouranos, Montreal, QC, Canada
GC54A-07
High Resolution Projections of 21st Century Daily Precipitation for the Contiguous USA (18076)
Justin T Schoof, Southern Illinois University, School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, Carbondale, IL, United States
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