A42E:
Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvement II

Session ID#: 5239

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jui-Lin F Li, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Fanglin Yang, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Clarksville, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, United States
Co-conveners:  Jui-Lin F Li, JPL, Pasadena, United States, Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NWS/Office of Modeling and Development, Rivedale Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3336 Numerical approximations and analyses [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A42E-01
Exploiting Satellite Observations in the Development of Global Models (Invited) (21469)
Robert Pincus, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
A42E-02
Upper Air Temperature and Circulation Climatologies from GPS Radio Occultation Measurements for Climate Process Studies and Model Evaluation (23993)
Chi O Ao, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Olga P Verkhoglyadova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Anthony J Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Stephen Sylvain Leroy, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States
A42E-03
Climate Model Evaluation Using a Satellite Simulator for TRMM PR (9700)
Thomas Spangehl1, Marc Schroeder1 and Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo2, (1)Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom
A42E-04
On the Nature of Cloud Property Errors in Contemporary Gcms: A Hindcast Approach (9826)
Mark D Zelinka and Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
A42E-05
CAUSES: Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface (Invited) (5291)
Hsi-Yen Ma1, Stephen A Klein1, Shaocheng Xie1, Yuying Zhang1, Yunyan Zhang2, Cyril Julien Morcrette3, Kwinten Van Weverberg4, Jon Petch3 and Min-Hui Lo5, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Ghent University, Department of Geography, Ghent, Belgium, (5)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
A43F-3344
Excessive Cold-tongue and Weak ENSO Asymmetry: Are These Two Common Biases in Climate Models Linked? (30018)
De-Zheng Sun, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; Nanjing University, Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China
A42E-07
Implication of observed cloud variability for parameterizations of microphysical and radiative transfer processes in climate models (22488)
Dong Huang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States
A42E-08
Far-Infrared Surface Emissivity Impacts on Climate and the Potential for a Positive Feedback (14042)
Daniel Feldman1, William Drew Collins2, Prof. Xianglei Huang3, Xiuhong Chen3 and Von Patrick Walden4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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