A12E:
Physics of Climate Models II

Session ID#: 5269

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Steven K Krueger, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Convener:  Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-conveners:  Steven K Krueger, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A12E-01
Air-Sea interactions:Observations and models (Invited) (5437)
Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
A12E-02
The Vertical Profile of Ocean Mixing (Invited) (11623)
Raffaele M Ferrari1, Maxim Nikurashin2, Trevor J McDougall3 and Alizera Mashayek1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A12E-03
Anisotropic Mesoscale Eddy Transport in Ocean General Circulation Models (9143)
Scott James Reckinger1, Baylor Fox-Kemper2, Scott Bachman3, Frank Bryan4, John Dennis5 and Gokhan Danabasoglu4, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
A12E-04
A new framework for parameterization of heterogeneous ocean convection (12988)
Mehmet Ilicak, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway, Alistair Adcroft, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, United States and Sonya Legg, Center for Ocean Leadership at UCAR, Boulder, United States
A12E-05
Accurate and Robust Quantification of Energy Pathways in the Ocean (30256)
Matthew W Hecht, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States and Geoffrey K Vallis, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
A12E-06
Marine Boundary Layer Heights over the Eastern North Pacific Based on Measurements from the MAGIC Field Campaign (6804)
Ernie R Lewis, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
A12E-07
An Analysis of Interannual Variabilities in High Cloud Cover from AIRS Data: Imprints of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Comparison to Models (14384)
Yuk L Yung1, Katie Antilla2, Sze Ning Mak3, Tiffany M Chang4, King-Fai Li5, Hui Su6, Sun Wong7 and Jonathan H. Jiang2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (4)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
A12E-08
Scale dependence of entrainment-mixing processes and microphysical properties: facts from observations, insights from theory, and implications for related parameterizations (29561)
Yangang Liu1, Chunsong Lu2, Satoshi Endo3, Wuyin Lin3 and Shengjie Niu2, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (2)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
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