GC31C:
Climatology and Trends of Extreme Events in Climate Models Capable of Resolving Regional-Scale Processes I

Session ID#: 2018

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Donald J Wuebbles, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos, United States
Primary Convener:  Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States
Co-conveners:  William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC31C-01
Extreme Precipitation: Resolving the Added Value of High-Resolution Physical and Statistical Modeling (Invited) (2603)
Katharine Hayhoe1, Anne Marie K Stoner2, Jiali Wang3, Ian Scott-Fleming2, Sachith Abeysundara4 and Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi5, (1)Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, (2)Texas Tech University, Climate Science Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (4)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, (5)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States
A54E-04
Projections of Increased Intensity of Summer Rainfall over the UK from Very High Resolution Regional Climate Model Simulations (Invited) (29770)
Hayley J Fowler1, Elizabeth Kendon2, Steven C Chan3, Nigel M Roberts4, Malcolm J Roberts2 and Catherine A Senior2, (1)Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (4)MetOffice@Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
GC31C-03
Atmospheric Rivers in the Southwestern US: Climatology and Possible Future Changes (Invited) (5331)
Francina Dominguez and Erick R Rivera-fernandez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
GC31C-04
Daily Temperature Records in a Warming Climate (Invited) (5612)
Maria J Molina, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Claudia Tebaldi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
GC31C-05
Bayesian Inversion for Large Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow (Invited) (2982)
Omar Ghattas1,2, Tobin Isaac2, Noemi Petra3 and Georg Stadler2,4, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of California Merced, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, (4)New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States
GC31C-06
Preparing CAM-SE for Multi-Tracer Applications: CAM-SE-Cslam (Invited) (5264)
Peter Hjort Lauritzen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, CGD, Boulder, United States, Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Steve Goldhaber, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
GC31C-07
NICAM 870m mesh simulations on the K computer and a road toward global LES (Invited) (5620)
Hisashi Yashiro, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, Hirofumi Tomita, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan and Satoh Masaki, AORI The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
GC31C-08
Why Do Gcms Have Trouble with the MJO? (Invited) (6166)
Charlotte A DeMott, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Prof. David A Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
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