A53E:
Innovative Insights into the Climate System and Climate Models: Exploring Scales and Parameter Spaces II Posters

Session ID#: 5248

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Prof. Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Aaron Donohoe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Co-conveners:  Brian H Kahn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Aaron Donohoe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Brian E J Rose, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4475 Scaling: spatial and temporal [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Computational Methods across Scales: Personal to High Performance Platforms

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Confirmation of the Existence of Super-Terminal Raindrops (9251)
Michael Larsen, College of Charleston, Physics and Astronomy, Charleston, United States, Alexander B Kostinski, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States and Arthur R Jameson, RJH Scientific, Inc., Arlington, VA, United States
 
On the Choice of Average Solar Zenith Angle (10548)
Timothy Cronin, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
The effect of ocean mixed layer depth on climate in slab ocean aquaplanet experiments. (13164)
Aaron Donohoe, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Scale-dependent instabilities in the model gray zone (16504)
Bowen Zhou, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Jason S Simon, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States and Fotini K Chow, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States
 
Examination of convective parameterization closures and their scale awareness using cloud-resolving model simulations (16944)
Suhas Ettammal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, Pune, India, Guang Jun Zhang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Rui Chen, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Resolution-dependent behavior of subgrid-scale vertical transport in the Zhang-McFarlane convection parameterization (19070)
Heng Xiao1, William I Gustafson Jr2, Samson M Hagos3, Chien-ming Wu4 and Hui Wan2, (1)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Continental Moisture Availability and Planetary Temperature in an Idealized GCM (30524)
Jacob Scheff, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States; Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Dargan M Frierson, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Exploring Variable and Uniform Resolution Modeling Approaches Using Global MPAS-A Aquaplanet Simulations: Sensitivity to Specification of Equatorial Channel (19133)
Matus Martini1, William I Gustafson Jr1, Po-Lun Ma2, William C Skamarock3 and Laura D Fowler4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Shortwave absorption by water vapor and clouds as a source of equability in warm climates (31843)
Roberto F Rondanelli1,2, Matthew Huber3 and Gary Shaffer2,4, (1)Universidad de Chile, Geophysics Department, Center for Climate Resilience Research, Santiago, Chile, (2)Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Santiago, Chile, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Spatial Variability of CCN Sized Aerosol Particles (23153)
Ari Asmi and Riikka Väänänen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
 
On the Multi-scale Variability of High-frequency Surface Air Temperature (28420)
Nicholas R Cavanaugh, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Samuel S.P. Shen, San Diego State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego, CA, United States
 
Analysis of Scale Dependent Statistics of Quasi-Steady-State Large Eddy Simulations in the Time Domain (29653)
Kyle Gregory Pressel1, Tapio Schneider1, Zhihong Tan2 and Colleen M. Kaul3, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States