A34E:
Precipitation €”From Too Little to Too Much: Emerging Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers and Calwater Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Studies II

Session ID#: 5320

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3006 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Primary Convener:  F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Co-conveners:  Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Kimberly A Prather, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, La Jolla, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
3329 Mesoscale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The CalWater 2 - ARM Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (ACAPEX) (Invited) (2610)
L Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Kimberly A Prather, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, F Martin Ralph, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, J. Ryan Spackman, Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, Chris W Fairall, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Paul J DeMott, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Jiwen Fan, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States and Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Ice Nucleating Particles and their Role in California Winter Clouds (24121)
Paul J DeMott1, Kimberly A Prather2, Thomas Christopher James Hill1, Christina S. McCluskey3, Ezra Levin4, Kaitlyn J Suski5, Jessie Creamean6, Douglas B Collins7, Andrew Martin8, Gavin Cornwell9, Hashim Al-Mashat10, Daniel Rosenfeld11, L Ruby Leung12, Jennifer M Comstock5, Jason M Tomlinson5, Sonia M Kreidenweis1 and Markus D Petters13, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (8)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of California San Diego, Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, United States, (10)University of California San Diego, Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, CA, United States, (11)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (12)Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, (13)University of California Riverside, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Riverside, United States
Storm dynamics orographic kinematics and naturally emitted aerosols conspire to create a natural cloud seeding environment over California (22859)
Andrew Martin1, Kimberly A Prather2, L Ruby Leung3 and Kaitlyn J Suski3, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Influence of Large-scale Climate Modes on Atmospheric Rivers That Drive Regional Precipitation Extremes (17358)
Bin Guan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Eric J Fetzer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Paul J Neiman, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Untangling the Impacts of Climate Variability on Atmospheric Rivers and Western U.S. Precipitation Using PERSIANN-CONNECT (19906)
Scott L Sellars1, Xiaogang Gao1, Kuo-lin Hsu1, Soroosh Sorooshian2 and Staryl McCabe-Glynn1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Implementation and Initial Application of an Atmospheric River Detection Tool Based on Integrated Vapor Transport (28405)
Gary A Wick, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Atmospheric Rivers in the CESM: Validation, Connections to Extreme Precipitation, and Projections for the Future (7541)
Christine A Shields, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey Theodore Kiehl, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Atmospheric Rivers in a Hierarchy of High-Resolution Global Atmospheric Models (21931)
Marie-Estelle Demory1, Reinhard Schiemann2, David A Lavers3, Matthew Mizielinski4, Pier Luigi Vidale5 and Malcolm J Roberts4, (1)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)NCAS Climate, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom