GC51A:
Characterizing, Understanding, and Modeling Climate Extremes I Posters

Session ID#: 5167

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France and Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States
Primary Convener:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France
Co-Convener:  Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christian Page, CERFACS, Climate Modeling and Global Change, Toulouse, France
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Multi - Region Analysis of a New Climate Extremes Index (21984)
Andrea Jennifer Dittus1, David J Karoly2, Sophie C Lewis2 and Lisa Alexander3, (1)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (2)University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
A Data Centred Method to Estimate and Map Changes in the Full Distribution of Daily Precipitation and Its Exceedances (5327)
Sandra C Chapman1,2, David Alan Stainforth3,4 and Nicholas Wynn Watkins1,5, (1)Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, (2)University of Warwick, CFSA, Physics, Coventry, CV4, United Kingdom, (3)London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Warwick, Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom, (5)University of Warwick, CFSA, Physics, Coventry, United Kingdom
 
Characterization of Floods in the United States (18339)
Manabendra Saharia, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research and Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, Jonathan J Gourley, National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, United States, Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States and Humberto J Vergara, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
 
A Recurrence-Based Technique for Detecting Genuine Extremes in Instrumental Temperature Records (7821)
Davide Faranda, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, Sandro Vaienti, Aix Marseille University, Marseille Cedex 03, France and Pascal Yiou, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
 
Detection of Nonstationarity in Seasonality of Extreme Precipitation Using a New Statistical Approach (30331)
Nirajan Dhakal, Spelman College, Atlanta, United States and Shaleen Jain, University of Maine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Orono, ME, United States
 
Temperature and CAPE Dependence of Rainfall Extremes in the Eastern United States (13251)
Chiara Lepore, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Daniele Veneziano, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Annalisa Molini, Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States
 
On the relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and early warm season temperatures in the southwestern US (14918)
Boksoon Myoung1, Seung Hee Kim2, Jinwon Kim3 and Menas Kafatos2, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, (3)Korean Meteorological Administration, Seoguipo, South Korea
 
The Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions During the CONUS 2012 Summertime Heat Wave (24854)
Tiffany T Smith, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States and Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Temporal and spatial evolution of the large scale meteorological patterns (LSMPs) for California Central Valley hot spells (28482)
Yun-Young Lee, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Richard Grotjahn, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States
 
Characterizing moisture delivery mechanisms for extreme precipitation in large geographic regions (17626)
Cameron Bracken, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Department of Interior, Denver, United States
 
The Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Atmospheric Conditions during the 2013 Colorado Floods (10130)
Dr. Danielle E Touma, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States
 
Extreme Precipitation along the Himalayan Slope - Main Processes and Long Term Trends (22743)
Patrik Bohlinger, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Asgeir Sorteberg, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
 
The Northern Oscillation Index as a Predictor of Precipitation in California (26823)
John Rath1, Mariza C Costa-Cabral2, William B Mills1, Peter D Bromirski3, Cristina Milesi4, Sujoy Roy1 and Robert N Coats5, (1)Tetra Tech Lafayette, Lafayette, CA, United States, (2)Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Inc., Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Hydroikos Ltd., Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Evaluation of increasing spatial resolution in downscaled climate projections and the effect on extreme precipitation in Canada (12999)
Stephen R Sobie, Alex J Cannon and Trevor Quentin Murdock, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
 
Extreme Precipitation in the San Francisco Bay Area: Comparing Downscaling Methodologies’ Skill in Representing Extreme Precipitation in Hindcasts and Differences in Their Projections (25856)
Felicia Chiang1, Cristina Milesi2, Mariza C Costa-Cabral3, John Rath4, Weile Wang5 and James Robert Podolske2, (1)NASA/Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Inc., Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Tetra Tech, Sterling, VA, United States, (5)CSUMB & NASA/AMES, Seaside, CA, United States
 
Extreme temperatures in the U.S: Analysis of downscaled CMIP5 model simulations with different emission scenarios (28886)
Leo Yu1, Kevin Li2, Pierre Glaize1 and Eugene Cordero1, (1)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (2)San Jose State University, San Jose, United States
 
Influence of Physics Parameterizations and Ocean Coupling on Simulations of Tropical Cyclones using a Regional Climate Model (WRF) and a Coupled Modeling System (COAWST) (29057)
Priscilla Mooney, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology, Boulder, CO, United States, Francis J Mulligan, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland, Cindy L Bruyere, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science, Boulder, CO, United States and Brian Bonnlander, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Using Three Global Climate Indices to Forecast Hurricane Activity in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (3684)
Jason P Giovannettone, HydroMet, LLC, Alexandria, VA, United States
 
A Height Dependent Evaluation of Wind and Temperature over Europe in the CMIP5 Earth System Models (12208)
Annemarie Devis, Matthias Demuzere and Nicole P.M. Van Lipzig, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Projections of Extreme Precipitation Events in India from regional and global climate model (20846)
Parth Ashishbhai Modi, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India; Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research and Management, Civil Engineering, Ahmedabad, India, Reepal Shah, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, India and Mishra Vimal, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
 
Extreme Temperature and Rainfall Events, their Changes and Future Projections in India (21754)
Sushil Kumar Dash, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India
 
Projections of sub-daily precipitation extremes in major global urban areas (22535)
Piyush Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India and Mishra Vimal, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
 
Climate Change Projection for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (9460)
David W Werth, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, Aiken, SC, United States
 
Uncertainty Characterization and Delineation of Nonstationarity in Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves of Precipitation Relevant for Infrastructural Design (10909)
Devashish Kumar, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States and Auroop R Ganguly, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Boston, United States
 
Global impacts of hydrological and climatic extremes on vegetation (SAT-EX) (29282)
Willem Waegeman1, Niko Verhoest2, Mathieu Depoorter3, Pierre A. G. Regnier4, Pierre Friedlingstein5,6, A Johannes Dolman7, Richard de Jeu7, Wouter Dorigo8 and Diego G. Miralles2,7, (1)Ghent University, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, KERMIT Research Unit, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Gent, Belgium, (3)Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent, Belgium, (4)Department of Geosciences, Environment & Society (DGES), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, (5)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, (6)University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (7)Free University of Amsterdam, Department of Earth Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (8)Vienna University of Technology, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria
 
Effect of Climate-Related Sea Level Rise on Sandy Flooding and Damages in New York City (24778)
Scott Andrew Kulp1, Benjamin Strauss1, Philip M Orton2, Hans de Moel3 and Sergey V Vinogradov4,5, (1)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States, (3)Institute for Environmental Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Earth Resources Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States