A43G:
Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvement IV Posters

Session ID#: 5241

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Jui-Lin F Li, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 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:  Jui-Lin F Li, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 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:

 
A43G-3351
Improvement of Systematic Biases of Climate Forecast System (CFS) Model through Revised Convection-Microphysics and Superparameterization (2717)
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay1, Bidyut Bikash Goswami2, Abhik Santra1, Malay Ganai1, R Phani Murali Krishna1, Mata Mahakur1, Marat Khairoutdinov3 and B. N. Goswami1, (1)Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, (2)Institute of Science and Technology, Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria, (3)Stony Brook University, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
A43G-3352
Regional Wind Speed Comparison of Climate Models, Era-Interim Reanalysis and Observations (5600)
Sium Tesfai Gebremariam, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States and Belay Demoz, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States
 
A43G-3354
Observational Evaluation of Simulated Land-Atmosphere Coupling on the U.S. Southern Great Plains (26654)
Thomas J Phillips and Stephen A Klein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
A43G-3355
On the Sensitivity of the Diurnal Cycle in the Amazon to Convective Intensity (8005)
Kyle Frederick Itterly, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Hampton, United States and Patrick C Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
 
A43G-3356
Using Ensemble Short-Term Initialized Coupled NASA GEOS5 Climate Model Integrations to Study Convective Bias Growth (9313)
Charles Cohen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Franklin R Robertson, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
A43G-3357
Assessment of Two Planetary Boundary Layer Schemes (ACM2 and YSU) within the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model (18094)
Jamie Wolff, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Michelle Harrold, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States and Mei Xu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A43G-3358
Examining the Vertical Structure of Clouds Systems in CAM5 Using Simulated Cloudsat Radar Reflectivities with Estimated Uncertainties from Precipitation Distribution (10819)
Yuying Zhang1, Stephen A Klein2 and Hsi-Yen Ma1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
A43G-3359
Diagnosing cloud occurrence biases in the AM3 using atmospheric classification (31520)
Stuart M Evans, University at Buffalo, Department of Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, Roger Marchand, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States and Thomas P Ackerman, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States
 
A43G-3360
The Role of Shallow Convection in Tropical Climate via Impacts of the Model Spatial Resolution (11783)
Hien X. Bui, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Chia Chou, Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 
A43G-3361
Evaluating the Representation of Low Clouds in CAM5 Based on ARM Observations from the Azores (14161)
Xue Zheng, Stephen A Klein and Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
A43G-3362
Basic Evaluation of Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) Version 1 (12661)
Duoying Ji1, Lanning Wang2, Jingming Feng2, Qizhong Wu2 and Huaqiong Cheng2, (1)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
A43G-3363
Evaluation of Cloud and Precipitation Parameterization Using a Single-Column Model: A TWP-ICE Case Study (20686)
Ji-Young Han1, So-Young Kim2, In-Jin Choi3 and Soo Ya Bae3, (1)KIAPS (Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems), Physics Research Team, Seoul, South Korea, (2)KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, SEOUL, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
A43G-3364
Numerical Weather Predictions Evaluation Using Spatial Verification Methods (21798)
Ioannis Tegoulias, Ioannis Pytharoulis, Stylianos Kotsopoulos, Stergios Kartsios, Dimitrios Bampzelis and Theodore Karacostas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
 
A43G-3365
A comparison of global reanalyses to satellite observations: quantifying errors in Cloud Fraction and TOA cloud radiative forcings (28892)
Erica Dolinar1, Xiquan Dong1 and Baike Xi2, (1)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
A43G-3366
Assessment of NASA GISS Post-CMIP5 Single Column Model Simulated Cloud Fraction, Liquid Water Path, and Precipitation Using Ground-based and Satellite Observations (22982)
Lei Zhang1, Xiquan Dong1, Baike Xi2, Aaron D Kennedy1 and Zhanqing Li3, (1)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Univ of Maryland College Park, AOSC, College Park, United States
 
A43G-3367
Evaluation of simulated vertical aerosol profiles from global climate models (23481)
Sunmin Park, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Robert James Allen, University of California Riverside, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
 
A43G-3368
Impacts of atmospheric and oceanic resolution on the tropical Pacific climatology simulated by GFDL's new climate models (17645)
Andrew Thorne Wittenberg1, Gabriel Andres Vecchi2, Thomas L Delworth1, Anthony John Rosati3, Whit Anderson1 and Fanrong Jenny Zeng1, (1)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A43G-3369
Developing a 3D Constrained Variational Analysis Method to Calculate Large Scale Forcing Data and the Applications (16038)
Shuaiqi Tang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Minghua Zhang, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
A43G-3370
Evaluation of the UK Met Office's HadGEM3-RA and HadRM3P regional climate models within South America-CORDEX simulations: ENSO related interannual precipitation variability (18456)
Maisa Rojas, University of Chile, Department of Geophysics, Santiago, Chile and Deniz Bozkurt, University of Chile, Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Santiago, Chile
 
A43G-3371
Evaluation of A Convective Cloud Microphysics Scheme in CAM5 under the CAPT Framework (20428)
Shaocheng Xie1, Hsi-Yen Ma1, Stephen A Klein1, Xiaoliang Song2 and Guang Jun Zhang2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
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