A33Q:
Precipitation €”From Too Little to Too Much: Emerging Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers and Calwater Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Studies I

Session ID#: 2471

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3006 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States and Kimberly A Prather, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, La Jolla, United States
Primary Convener:  F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Co-conveners:  Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Kimberly A Prather, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, La Jolla, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
3329 Mesoscale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A33Q-01
Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers in California—Historical and Future Impacts (Invited) (8635)
Michael D Dettinger, U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
A33Q-02
CalWater 2 – Precipitation, Aerosols, and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers Experiment (19267)
J. Ryan Spackman1, F Martin Ralph2, Kimberly A Prather3, Daniel R Cayan4, Paul J DeMott5, Michael D Dettinger6, Chris W Fairall7, L Ruby Leung8, Daniel Rosenfeld9, Steven A Rutledge5, Duane Edward Waliser10 and Allen B White11, (1)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, (7)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (8)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, (9)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (11)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
A33Q-03
Computation of Air-Sea Fluxes in Five Atmospheric Rivers over the Northeast Pacific Using Dropsonde Observations (Invited) (7532)
Chris W Fairall, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Byron Blomquist, NOAA ESRL / University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Chelle L Gentemann, NASA Headquarters, Santa Rosa, United States, F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, J. Ryan Spackman, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Janet M Intrieri, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Allen B White, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
A33Q-04
Dominant Factors Controlling the Hydrometeorology of Northern California: Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Sierra Barrier Jets (Invited) (5227)
Paul J Neiman1, F Martin Ralph2, Mimi Abel3,4, Ellen Sukovich3,5, David E. Kingsmill5, Robert J Zamora1 and Benjamin J Moore6, (1)NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Science Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)SUNY Albany, Albany, United States
A33Q-05
Atmospheric Rivers over Europe: Hydrological Impacts and Predictability (Invited) (5232)
David A Lavers, UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States
A33Q-06
Poleward Tropical Moisture Transport and its Link to Four Sequential Extreme Weather Events over North America in October 2007 (2206)
Lance F Bosart, University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States, Jason M Cordeira, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, United States, Heather M Archambault, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States and Benjamin J Moore, SUNY Albany, Albany, United States
A33Q-07
DEVELOPING A CLIMATOLOGY OF ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS IMPACTING GREENLAND USING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY REANALYSIS (16694)
William D Neff, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States and Gilbert P Compo, University of Colorado CIRES and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
A33Q-08
Extreme Daily Precipitation Events in Spitzbergen: A High Arctic Island (16398)
Mark C Serreze1, Andrew P Barrett2 and Alex D Crawford2, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
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