A54D:
Organized Convection Across Scales: Fundamentals and Phenomena IV

Session ID#: 5245

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Ahmed B Tawfik, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Co-conveners:  Ahmed B Tawfik, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Duane Edward Waliser, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mitchell W Moncrieff, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3371 Tropical convection [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A54D-01
Self-Aggregation of Convection in Long Channel Geometry (Invited) (3073)
Allison A Wing, University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States and Timothy Cronin, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
A54D-02
Convective aggregation in idealised models and realistic equatorial cases (Invited) (16333)
Christopher E Holloway, University of Reading, NCAS-Climate, Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
A54D-03
Vertical-Velocity Distributions as a Key to Representing Convection across Sub-Grid Scales in Climate Models (Invited) (2427)
Leo Donner, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
A54D-04
Tradeoffs in Acceleration and Initialization of Superparameterized Global Atmospheric Models for MJO and Climate Science (Invited) (24259)
Mike S Pritchard, University California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Christopher Stephen Bretherton, Allen Institute for AI, Seattle, United States and Charlotte A DeMott, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
A54D-05
Improvements in the representation of the Indian Summer Monsoon in the NCEP Climate Forecast System version 2 (3433)
Rodrigo J Bombardi1, Edwin Kahn Schneider2, Lawrence Marx2, Subhadeep Halder2, Bohar Singh2, Ahmed B Tawfik3, Paul Dirmeyer4 and James L Kinter5, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (4)COLA, Fairfax, United States, (5)George Mason University, Virginia Climate Center, Fairfax, United States
A54D-06
Mesoscale organization in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) (22585)
Julio T Bacmeister1, Stanley B Trier2, Christopher A Davis3 and Patrick Callaghan2, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
A54D-07
Senstivity simulations of the MJO and tropical climate using a superparameterized version of the global WRF model (30356)
Stefan Tulich, CIRES/University of Colorado, Longmont, CO, United States
A54D-08
Feedbacks and Convection in the Gap Between GCMs and CRMs (26257)
Levi Glenn Silvers, Bjorn B Stevens, Cathy Hohenegger and Giorgetta A. Marco, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
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