A41P:
Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvement I

Session ID#: 2280

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, United States
Co-conveners:  Jui-Lin F Li, JPL, Pasadena, United States, Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NWS/Office of Modeling and Development, Rivedale Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Fanglin Yang, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Clarksville, MD, United States
Index Terms:

1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3336 Numerical approximations and analyses [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A41P-01
Thirty Years of Improving the NCEP Global Forecast System (Invited) (5233)
Glenn H White1, Geoffrey Manikin2,3, Fanglin Yang2 and Global Climate and Weather Modeling Branch/EMC/NCEP, (1)NOAA College Park, GCWMB/EMC/NCEP/NWS, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)MMB/EMC/NCEP/NWS, College Park, MD, United States
A41P-02
Sensitivity of NCEP GFS Forecast of Hurricane Sandy to Model Biases (13413)
Fanglin Yang, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
A41P-03
Ensemble Forecasting – Reducing Systematic Error and Identifying Forecast Errors (15804)
Hong Guan, SRG Inc., Colorado Springs, CO, United States, Yuejian Zhu, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Bo Cui, IMSG, College Park, MD, United States
A41P-04
Development of the Atmospheric Component of the Next Generation Gfdl Climate Model (Invited) (4792)
Jean-Christophe Golaz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States and Ming Zhao, NOAA/OAR/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
A41P-05
Assessing air-sea interaction in the evolving NASA GEOS model (18142)
Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Jason B Roberts, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
A41P-06
The Impacts of Cloud Snow Radiative Effects on Pacific Oceans Surface Heat Fluxes, Surface Wind Stress, and Ocean Temperatures in Coupled GCM Simulations (9128)
Jui-Lin F Li1, Wei-Liang Lee2, Tong Lee1, Eric J Fetzer1 and Jia-Yuh Yu3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences,, Taipei, Taiwan
A41P-07
The Mean State and Inter-annual Variability of East Asian Summer Monsoon in CMIP5 Coupled Models: Does Air-Sea Coupling Improve the Simulations? (15277)
Tianjun Zhou, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Fengfei Song, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
A41P-08
Westerly wind biases over the equatorial Atlantic and their link to South American convection (21680)
Ingo Richter, JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan, Bunmei Taguchi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Takeshi Doi, JAMSTEC, Kanagawa, Japan and Swadhin K Behera, VAiG, JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan
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