GC33A:
Climatology and Trends of Extreme Events in Climate Models Capable of Resolving Regional-Scale Processes II Posters

Session ID#: 5191

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States
Primary Convener:  Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States
Co-Convener:  William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Modulation of Heavy Rainfall in the Middle East and North Africa by Madden–Julian Oscillation Using High Resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model (15760)
Liping Deng, Georgiy L Stenchikov, Matthew F McCabe and Hamza Kunhu Bangalath, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
 
Do high-resolution global climate models simulate climate extremes better? A validation. (30176)
Salil Mahajan, Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Katherine J Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Marcia L Branstetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Valentine G Anantharaj, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Mathew E Maltrud, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
 
Projected Precipitation Changes within the Great Lakes Region: A Multi-scale Analysis of Precipitation Intensity and Seasonality (30893)
Samantha Basile, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Allison L Steiner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Daniel Brown, University of Michigan, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences + Assessments, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Alexander M Bryan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Challenges to large-scale simulations of permafrost freeze-thaw dynamics (25509)
Nathan Collier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Gautam Bisht, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Relationship between extreme Precipitation and Temperature over Japan: An analysis from Multi-GCMs and Multi-RCMs products (11989)
Dr. Sridhara Nayak, PhD, Japan Meteorological Corporation Limited, Earth Science Center, Osaka, Japan, Koji Dairaku, University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Engineering Mechanics and Energy, Tsukuba, Japan and Izuru Takayabu, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Changes in Intense Rainfall Events over the Central United States in AOGCM-Driven Regional Climate Model Simulations (13051)
Ariele R Daniel1, Raymond W Arritt1 and Pavel Groisman2, (1)Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States, (2)Hydrology Science and Services Corp, Asheville, United States
 
Using a High-Resolution Global Climate Model to Simulate Extratropical Cyclones with Large Storm Surge Potential (15939)
Arielle J Catalano1, Anthony J Broccoli1 and Sarah B Kapnick2, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Added value by a regional climate model: precipitation and extreme temperature (16774)
Jiali Wang1, Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi1, Michael Stein2, Yuefeng Han3 and Swati Fnu3, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (2)University of Chicago, Department of Statistics, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Temperature Extremes and Associated Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns in NARCCAP Regional Climate Models: Towards a framework for generalized model evaluation (17048)
Paul C Loikith1, Duane Edward Waliser2, Huikyo Lee1, Jinwon Kim3, J David Neelin4, Seth A McGinnis5, Benjamin R Lintner6 and Linda Mearns7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Korean Meteorological Administration, Seoguipo, South Korea, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Rutgers, New Brunswick, United States, (7)NCAR, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Response of US Summer Rainfall to Quadrupled CO2 Climate Change in Conventional and Superparameterized Versions of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (18884)
Gabriel J Kooperman1,2, Mike S Pritchard3 and Richard C J Somerville2, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)NVIDIA Corporation, NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, United States
 
Simulating North American Heat Waves and Large scale Weather Regimes in climate models: Circulation Characteristics and synoptic-scale activity (20593)
Tianyu Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Katherine J Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
 
The effect of horizontal resolution of the simulation of precipitation extremes in the Community Atmospheric model version 5.1 (22777)
Michael F Wehner1, Mr. Prabhat1, Fuyu Li1, Christopher J Paciorek2 and William Drew Collins3,4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Are model-data differences in the Indo-Asian monsoon due to model or data biases? (24863)
R. Paul Acosta, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
 
A New Framework for Systematically Characterizing and Improving Extreme Weather Phenomena in Climate Models (27002)
Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Karthik Kashinath, NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, United States and William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Historical Changes in Global Extreme Precipitation in Climate Models and Observations (28308)
Behzad Asadieh, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Nir Krakauer, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States
 
Fidelity of CMIP5 simulations in representing the dynamics of the large scale meteorology associated with California hot spells (31188)
Richard Grotjahn, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Yun-Young Lee, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Toward Exa-Scale Computing in CAM-SE (3330)
David Matthew Hall1, Ram D Nair2 and Henry M Tufo III1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A 7-km Non-Hydrostatic Global Mesoscale Simulation with the Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) for Observing System Simulation Experiments (9523)
William Putman, Max Suarez, Ron Gelaro, Arlindo daSilva, Andrea Molod, Lesley Ott and Anton Darmenov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Prototyping Global Earth System Models at High Resolution: The Role of Comprehensiveness Touchstones Across Trade-Offs of Resolution, Comprehensiveness and Simulation Length. (9674)
John P Dunne1, Eric D Galbraith2, Michael Winton3, Whit Anderson3, Jasmin G John1, Carolina Olivia Dufour4, Richard Slater4, Jorge L Sarmiento5, Stephen Matthew Griffies3, Charles A Stock6 and Daniele Bianchi7, (1)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, United States, (2)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (7)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
Representing surface and subsurface hydrology at hyperresolution for Earth system models: Development of a hybrid 3-D approach (19790)
Pieter Hazenberg1, Patrick D Broxton2, Michael Brunke2, David J Gochis3, David M Lawrence4, Guo-Yue Niu5, Jon D Pelletier6, Peter A A Troch7 and Xubin Zeng5, (1)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
 
High-resolution coupled ice sheet-ocean modeling using the POPSICLES model (21192)
Esmond G Ng1, Daniel James Martin1, Xylar Asay-Davis2, Stephen F Price3 and William Drew Collins4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Development and Performance of the Modularized, High-performance Computing and Hybrid-architecture Capable GEOS-Chem Chemical Transport Model (27792)
Michael S Long1, Robert Yantosca2, Jon Nielsen3, John C Linford4, Christoph Andrea Keller5, Melissa Payer Sulprizio6 and Daniel J. Jacob6, (1)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)ParaTools, Inc., Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States