A53Q:
Regional Climate Modeling III

Session ID#: 2325

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3006 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States and L Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Primary Convener:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States
Co-Convener:  L Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A53Q-01
Design of a Regional Climate Model Ensemble That Incorporates Model Performance and Independence (Invited) (3351)
Jason Peter Evans, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Daniel Argüeso, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Alejandro Di Luca, Centre pour l’étude et la simulation du climat à l’échelle régionale (ESCER), Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère, Montreal, QC, Canada and Roman Olson, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A53Q-02
Ultra high-resolution ensemble projections of the near-term climate change over the U.S. (31806)
Moetasim Ashfaq1, Deeksha Rastogi2, Rui Mei2, Shih-Chieh Kao3, Bibi S Naz2 and Sudershan Gangrade4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
A53Q-03
How to Establish the Scientific Value of Multiple GCM-RCM Simulation Programs: An Example from NARCCAP (17246)
Linda Mearns1, Francina Dominguez2, William J Gutowski Jr3, Doritt Hammerling4, Dennis P Lettenmaier5, L Ruby Leung6, Sarah MIchaels4, Sara C C Pryor7 and Stephan R Sain8, (1)NCAR, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Iowa State Univ, Department of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, Ames, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (7)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (8)Jupiter, Boulder, CO, United States
A53Q-04
Exploring the Links Between Biases in Regional Climate Models and their Representation of Synoptic Circulation Types in the European Alps (17338)
Nans Addor1, Marco Rohrer2, Reinhard Furrer3 and Jan Seibert1, (1)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland, (3)Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
A53Q-05
Regional Arctic System Model (RASM): A Tool to Advance Understanding and Prediction of Arctic Climate Change at Process Scales (Invited) (20295)
Wieslaw Maslowski1, Andrew Roberts2, Robert Osinski3, Michael Brunke4, John J Cassano5, Jaclyn L Clement Kinney1, Anthony Craig6, Alice K DuVivier7, Brandon J Fisel8, William J Gutowski Jr9, Joe Hamman10, Mimi Abel11, Bart Nijssen12 and Xubin Zeng4, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (6)Not affiliated, Seattle, United States, (7)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (8)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (9)Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (10)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
A53Q-06
A Regional Coupled Model System to Examine Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice, Ice Sheet and Permafrost Interactions in the Arctic: HIRHAM5 – HYCOM – CICE – PISM – GIPL (15577)
Prof. Jens H Christensen, PhD1, Ruth Mottram2, Peter L Langen3, Kristine S Madsen2, Martin Stendel3, Christian B Rodehacke3, Vladimir E Romanovsky4 and Sergey S Marchenko5, (1)NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (2)Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)Danish Meteorological Institute, København Ø, Denmark, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
A53Q-07
Improved precipitation extremes and climatology in a regional coupled model simulation over CORDEX south Asia domain (16921)
Pankaj Kumar1, Dmitry Sein2, William Cabos3 and Jacob Daniela1, (1)Climate Service Center, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Germany, (3)University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
A53Q-08
Contribution of the North Atlantic Subtropical High to Regional Climate Model (RCM) Skill in Simulating Southeastern United States Summer Precipitation (13552)
Laifang Li, Duke Univ-Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC, United States, Wenhong Li, Duke Univ-Nicholas School, Durham, United States and Jiming Jin, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
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