A41K:
Warm Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change from the Cloud to the Global Scale I Posters

Session ID#: 5230

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States
Primary Convener:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Co-Convener:  Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, 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:

 
Three Key Processes Drive Marine Low-Cloud Cover Feedback (14571)
Xin Qu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alexander D Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Stephen A Klein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
The highs and lows of cloud radiative feedback: Comparing observational data and CMIP5 models (23266)
Andrea M Jenney, University of Miami, Miami, United States and Prof. David A Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
 
Using the Annual Cycle to Understand Climate Model Biases in Trade-wind Clouds (19230)
Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Louise Nuijens, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
 
Regional Biases in Droplet Activation Parameterizations: Strong Influence on Aerosol Second Indirect Effect in the Community Atmosphere Model v5. (31719)
Ricardo Morales, Universidad de los Andes, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bogotá, Colombia and Athanasios Nenes, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Understanding subtropical cloud feedbacks in anthropogenic climate change simulations of CMIP5 models (18967)
Timothy A Myers, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Joel R Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
 
Is a Low Cloud Signal in Response to CO2 Forcing Potentially Observable in the Satellite Record? (26844)
Michael Robert Olheiser, Winona State University, Winona, MN, United States and Joel R Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
 
Subtropical Low Cloud Responses to Central and Eastern Pacific El Nino Events (28407)
Anita D Rapp, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, Ralf Bennartz, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, William S Olson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Rachel T Pinker, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Patrick C Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
 
Speeding up CRMs for cloud-climate interaction studies by acceleration of mean state tendencies (30792)
Christopher Stephen Bretherton, Allen Institute for AI, Seattle, United States and Christopher R Jones, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Modelling Volcanic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Cumulus Cloud Using the High Resolution Nested Suite of the UK Met Office Unified Model (12487)
Amy K Hodgson1, Paul Field2,3, Ken S Carslaw3, Adrian A Hill2, Ben J Shipway2, Daniel Peter Grosvenor1 and John H Marsham4, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)United Kingdom Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
 
Signatures of semi-direct radiative forcing by absorbing aerosols in satellite observations and models (26367)
Eric M Wilcox1, Farnaz Hosseinpour1 and Peter Richard Colarco2, (1)Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Emulation of Cloud-Aerosol Indirect Radiative Effects (ECLAIRE) (20624)
Hannele Korhonen1, Eimear Maria Dunne2, Harri Kokkola2, Lindsay Lee3 and Sami Romakkaniemi2, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
 
A Framework for Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Monitoring (9281)
Karolina Sarna and Herman W.J. Russchenberg, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
 
An Improved Method for Detectingand Separating Cloud from Drizzle Radar Signatures Using a Time Domain Parametric Technique (19153)
Cuong Nguyen, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States and V Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
 
Statistical Analysis of Turbulence-Induced Fluctuations In In-Cloud Saturation Ratio and Rates of Cloud Droplet Growth (29234)
Robert L McGraw1, Edward P Luke1 and Pavlos Kollias2, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
Verification of difference of ion-induced nucleation rate for kinds of ionizing radiation (30821)
Asami Suzuki Mashio1, Kimiaki Masuda1, Yuya Takeuchi1, Yoshitaka Itow1, Takashi Sako1, Yutaka Matsumi1, Tomoki Nakayama1, Sayako Ueda1, Kazuhiko Miura2 and Kanya Kusano3, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan
 
Investigation of the Relationship Between Turbulence and Drizzle Onset and Development in Continental and Marine Stratiform Low-level Clouds Using ARM Observations (24724)
Edward P Luke, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, Paloma Borque, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Christine Chiu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
How individual clouds contrbute to the cloud overlap of fields of shallow cumuli (26991)
Thijs Heus1,2, Daniel Tüns2 and Roel Neggers3, (1)Cleveland State University, Solon, OH, United States, (2)University of Cologne, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Cologne, Germany, (3)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
 
Role of Spatial Distribution of Rain in Formation of Open Cellular Circulation (9941)
Takanobu Yamaguchi, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, United States; CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Graham Feingold, NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States
 
Cloud Processing of CCN Spectra (7646)
James Gary Hudson and Stephen R Noble Jr, Desert Research Institute Reno - DRI, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States
 
Effects of Cloud-Processed CCN on Warm Clouds (8832)
Stephen R Noble Jr, Desert Research Institute Reno - DRI, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States and James Gary Hudson, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Modulation of the Wind Speed Response of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds (7647)
Jan Kazil, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Graham Feingold, NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States
 
Aerosol-stratocumulus-radiation Interactions over Southeast Pacific and Their Implications to SST (26633)
Guoxing Chen and Wei-Chyung Wang, State Univ of New York, Albany, NY, United States
 
Cloud microphysical relationships and their implication on the mixing processes in the stratocumulus clouds measured during the VOCALS-REx (17226)
Seong Soo Yum1, Jian Wang2, Yangang Liu3, Gunnar Senum4, Stephen R. Springston5, Robert L McGraw3 and Jae Min Yeom1, (1)Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (4)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States, (5)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
 
Subseasonal Vertical Correlations with MBL Cloud Top Heights over the Southeastern Pacific and Cloud Top Height/Vertical Velocity Relationships in a Baroclinic Atmosphere Using Satellite and Re-Analysis Data (30755)
Terence L Kubar1, Vincent E Larson2, Graeme L Stephens3, Robert Wood4 and Matthew D Lebsock3, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States