A52B:
Innovative Insights into the Climate System and Climate Models: Exploring Scales and Parameter Spaces I

Session ID#: 2988

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Prof. Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Aaron Donohoe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Co-conveners:  Brian H Kahn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Aaron Donohoe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Brian E J Rose, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4475 Scaling: spatial and temporal [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Computational Methods across Scales: Personal to High Performance Platforms

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A52B-01
What Sets the Relative Humidity of the Tropical Troposphere? (Invited) (4167)
David M Romps, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
A52B-02
Atmospheric Moisture Budget and Spatial Resolution Dependenceof Precipitation Extremes in Aquaplanet Simulations (Invited) (3628)
Qing Yang1, L Ruby Leung1, Sara Rauscher2, Todd D. Ringler2 and Mark Taylor3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)LANL, LOS ALAMOS, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
A52B-03
Unexpected Results are Usually Wrong, but Often Interesting (Invited) (2293)
Matthew Huber, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
A52B-04
Scaling and Randomness of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies (Invited) (4348)
Laure Zanna and Luca Porta Mana, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
A52B-05
Tropical cyclone-permitting simulations of un-Earthlike climates (Invited) (13797)
Timothy M Merlis, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Ming Zhao, NOAA/OAR/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Isaac Held, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
A52B-06
Multifractal Analysis of Large Eddy Simulations of Marine Stratocumulus (15293)
Colleen M. Kaul1, Kyle Gregory Pressel1 and Joao Teixeira2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
A52B-07
Spatial Variances of Wind Fields and Their Relation to Second-Order Structure Functions and Spectra (Invited) (6009)
Gregory P King1,2, Jur Vogelzang3, Ad Stoffelen4 and Marcos Portabella2, (1)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing, China, (2)Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (4)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
A52B-08
Tinkering With AGCMs To Investigate Atmospheric Behavior (Invited) (2269)
Cecilia M Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
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