A44E:
Warm Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change from the Cloud to the Global ScaleĀ III

Session ID#: 5229

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States and Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Co-conveners:  Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States and Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Response of Trade-wind Clouds to a Changing Environment: Why Climate Model Cloud Feedbacks Might Differ from Nature? (13632)
Louise Nuijens, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Irina Sandu, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Bonn, Germany and Maike Ahlgrimm, European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
Shallow cumulus rooted in photosynthesis (Invited) (2670)
Jordi Vila-Guerau Arellano1,2, Ouwersloot H. G.2,3, G. Horn2, Martin Sikma2, Cor MJ Jacobs1,4 and D Baldocchi5, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Wageningen Univiersity, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (4)Alterra Wageningen UR, CALM, Netherlands, (5)UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Managment, Berkeley, CA, United States
The Role of Cold Pools in Mesoscale Organization of Shallow Cumulus and Congestus (29344)
David B Mechem, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, Scott E Giangrande, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States and David D Turner, NOAA Norman, Norman, OK, United States
Investigating Warm Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Organization By Thermodynamic and Dynamic States with NASA a-Train and MERRA Reanalysis Data (6657)
Brian H Kahn1, Georgios Matheou2, Matthew Christensen2, Eric J Fetzer3, Matthew D Lebsock4, Joao Teixeira5 and Qing Yue5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Radiative forcing by coastal anthropogenic emissions explains observed 20th century Southeast Pacific cooling (28425)
Scott Spak, University of Iowa, School of Planning and Public Affairs, Iowa City, IA, United States, Sebastian Milinski, University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES), Los Angeles, United States, Marcelo Mena, Universidad Nacional Andres Be, Santiago, Chile and Gregory R Carmichael, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States
Transport of Mass and Water Vapor in Cumulus Topped Boundary Layer: A Case-Study from Arm Darwin Facility (6683)
Virendra P Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States and Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
The Response of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds to Idealized Climate Perturbations (Invited) (2481)
Peter N Blossey, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, Christopher Stephen Bretherton, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Anning Cheng, SAIC/Lynker at NOAA/NWS/OMD, College Park, United States, Satoshi Endo, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Thijs Heus, Cleveland State University, Solon, OH, United States, Adrian Lock, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Johan van der Dussen, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands and Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Aerosol Indirect Forcing Dictated by Warm Low-Cloud (19273)
Matthew Christensen, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, YI-Chun Chen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Graeme L Stephens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States