GC21I:
Quantifying Changes in Temperature Distributions II

Session ID#: 3736

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Andrew N Rhines, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Karen A McKinnon, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Statistics and Data Science; Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, Los Angeles, United States and Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Andrew N Rhines, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Co-conveners:  Martin Tingley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Karen A McKinnon, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of Environment and Sustainability; Department of Statistics and Data Science; Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, Los Angeles, United States and Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3252 Spatial analysis [MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS]
3270 Time series analysis [MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS]
3309 Climatology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC21I-01
Global Observed Changes in Temperature Extremes (Invited) (4319)
Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain and Lisa Alexander, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
GC21I-02
Has the Temperature Climate of the United States Become More Extreme? (13602)
Laura E Stevens1,2, Kenneth Kunkel1,2, Russell S Vose2 and Richard W Knight1,2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites - North Carolina (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC, United States, (2)National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States
GC21I-03
Projected Increase in Diurnal and Inter-Diurnal Variations of European Summer Temperatures (7801)
Julien Cattiaux1, Hervé Douville1, Robert Schoetter1, Sylvie Parey2 and Pascal Yiou3, (1)CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (2)EDF Electricité de France, Paris, France, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
GC21I-04
Need for Caution in Interpreting Daily Temperature Extremes (18523)
Prashant D Sardeshmukh1,2, Gilbert P Compo2,3 and Cecile Penland4, (1)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
GC21I-05
Short-tailed Temperature Distributions over North America and Implications for Future Changes in Extremes (Invited) (5283)
Paul C Loikith, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
GC21I-06
Using Spectral Methods to Quantify Changes in Temperature Variability across Frequencies (14097)
Shanshan Sun1, David McInerney2, Michael Stein3, William Leeds4, Andrew N Poppick1, Larissa Nazarenko5, Gavin A Schmidt6 and Elisabeth J Moyer7, (1)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, (3)University of Chicago, Department of Statistics, Chicago, IL, United States, (4)Monsanto Corp., St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, (6)NASA/GISS, New York, United States, (7)University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
GC21I-07
A Global Analysis of the Link between Soil Moisture Dynamics and Warm Extremes. (21056)
Erik Casagrande1, Niranjan Kumar Kondapalli1, Brigitte Mueller2, Diego G. Miralles3 and Annalisa Molini4, (1)Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (2)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, (4)Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
GC21I-08
Physical Factors Influencing Changes in Temperature Distributions (Invited) (2833)
Randall M Dole, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
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