A43F:
Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvement III Posters

Session ID#: 5240

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Fanglin Yang, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Clarksville, MD, United States and Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 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:

 
Impact of Land Initialization on Short-Term Forecast Skill During Episodes of Wet and Dry Land-Atmosphere Coupling (27748)
Hyo-Jong Song and Craig R Ferguson, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
 
Extended-Range High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling over a Continental-Scale Domain (8784)
Syed Zahid Husain, Leo Separovic, Wei Yu and David Fernig, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada
 
Climate Change Response of Ocean Net Primary Production (NPP) and Export Production (EP) Regulated by Stratification Increases in The CMIP5 models (13764)
Weiwei Fu, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Jefferson Keith Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, United States
 
Statistical Downscaling of Wintertime Temperatures over South Korea (14422)
Seo-Yeon Lee, National Center for AgroMeteorology, Seoul, South Korea and Kwang-Yul Kim, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Nonparametric Stochastic Model for Uncertainty Quantifi cation of Short-term Wind Speed Forecasts (15149)
Aamna Mohammed AL-Shehhi, Mohamed Chaouch and Taha Ouarda, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
 
Climate Model Biases in the Width of the Tropical Belt (20465)
Nicholas Davis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Thomas Birner, CO State Univ-Atmospheric Sci, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Systematic Dependence of Projected Future Changes in the Arctic Oscillation on the Stratospheric Wave Activity Among High-Top CMIP5 Models (9220)
Joo-Hong Kim1, Ji-Won Kim2, Baek-Min Kim3 and Seong-Joong Kim1, (1)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Incheon, South Korea, (2)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Pukyong National University, Division of Earth Environmental System Sciences Major of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Busan, South Korea
 
Temperature and Humidity Profiles in the “TqJoint” Data Group of AIRS Version 6 Product for the Climate Model Evaluation (17364)
Feng Ding1,2, Fan Fang1,3, Thomas Hearty2,4, Michael Theobald1,2, Bruce Vollmer5 and Christopher Lynnes3, (1)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Wyle Information Systems, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Simulated Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty: Control Bias, Perturbed Physics and the Tuning of Models (20792)
Dietmar Dommenget, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 
Quantitative Characterization of Spurious Gibbs Waves in 45 CMIP5 Models (19442)
Kerrie Geil, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
The impact of the observation nudging and nesting on the simulated meteorology and ozone concentrations from WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ during DISCOVER-AQ 2013 Texas campaign (19355)
Yunsoo Choi1, Xiangshang Li2 and Beata Czader2, (1)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
Impact of soil parameter and physical process on reproducibility of hydrological processes by land surface model in semiarid grassland (19541)
Shin Miyazaki1,2, Kazuaki Yorozu3, Jun Asanuma4, Masayuki Kondo2 and Kazuyuki Saito5, (1)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)Kyoto University, Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, (4)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan
 
Impacts of Gravity Wave Drag Parameterizations on the Middle Atmosphere in Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems-Global Model  (20538)
Hyun-Joo Choi, KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, South Korea and Emilia Kyung Jin, KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
A Study on Future Changes in Precipitation Associated with the Baiu Front Using CMIP5 Simulations (20880)
Chie Yokoyama1, Yukari N Takayabu1 and Sachie Kanada2, (1)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (2)Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Errors in the Simulated Heat Budget of CGCMs in the Eastern Part of the Tropical Oceans (14154)
Julia Hazel1, Matthew T Masarik2, Carlos R Mechoso1, Justin Small3 and Enrique N Curchitser4, (1)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Key Signatures in the Barotropic Vorticity Budget within Ocean Western Boundary Currents : Understanding the Gulf Stream Pathway (22404)
Joseph A Schoonover1, William K Dewar2, Nico Wienders3, Jonathan Gula4, James C McWilliams5, Maarten J Molemaker6, Susan C Bates7 and Gokhan Danabasoglu7, (1)NOAA, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, United States, (3)Florida St Univ--OSB 415, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), University of Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, IUEM, Plouzané, France, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The role of sunshine absorption on rainfall increase (24549)
Benjamin Fildier, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, United States
 
WRF EMS model High resolution simulations over river-urban area in Amazonia (24819)
Julio Tota1, Kaleb Lima2, Rodrigo da Silva1 and Paulo Fisher Kuhn2, (1)Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil, (2)Federal University of Western Para, Santarem, Brazil
 
A Multi-Model Analysis of the Cloud Phase Transition in 16 GCMs Using Satellite Observations (CALIPSO/GPCP) and Reanalysis Data (ECMWF/MERRA). (28369)
Grégory Cesana1, Duane Edward Waliser2, Xianan Jiang3 and Jui-Lin F Li1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)JIFRESSE/UCLA, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Developing sub-domain verification methods based on GIS tools (29903)
Jeffrey A. Smith1, Theresa Anne Foley2 and John W. Raby1, (1)US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, NM, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States