A53K:
Precipitation €”From Too Little to Too Much: Emerging Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers and Calwater Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Studies IV Posters

Session ID#: 5322

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Andrew Martin, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Gary A Wick, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, 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:

 
Interannual Variations in Aerosol Sources and Their Impact on Orographic Precipitation over California’s Central Sierra Nevada (13593)
Jessie Creamean1, Andrew P Ault2, Allen B White1, Paul J Neiman1, Patrick Minnis3 and Kimberly A Prather4, (1)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Chemistry, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)SSAI/Larc, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
The Dominant Snow-forming Process in Warm and Cold Mixed-phase Orographic Clouds: Effects of Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Ice Nuclei (13491)
Jiwen Fan, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States, Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, L Ruby Leung, Pac NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States and Paul J DeMott, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
Characterization of the Rainfall Associated with Atmospheric Rivers during the Ifloods Campaign over the Central United States (6505)
Munir Ahmad Nayak1, Gabriele Villarini1, David A Lavers2 and Allen Bradley1, (1)The University of Iowa, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
 
Atmospheric Rivers and the Connection to Heavy Rainfall Events in the Southeastern U.S. (13202)
Kelly M Mahoney1, Darren L Jackson2, Ellen Sukovich3, Gary A Wick4, Paul J Neiman5, Robert Cifelli6, Allen B White6 and Benjamin J Moore7, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)SUNY Albany, Albany, United States
 
Spatiotemporal Structure of Tropical Moisture Exports and their Precursors associated with High Precipitation induced Floods over the Continental United States (16631)
Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
 
Classification of atmospheric river events on the U.S. west coast using a trajectory model (18777)
Ju-Mee Ryoo1, Duane Edward Waliser2, Darryn Waugh3, Sun Wong4, Eric J Fetzer4 and Inez Y Fung5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Arctic and Tropical Influence on Extreme Precipitation Events, Atmospheric Rivers, and Associated Isotopic Values in the Western U.S. (20195)
Staryl E McCabe-Glynn1, Kathleen R Johnson2, Yuhao Zou1, Jeffrey M Welker3, Courtenay Strong4, Jonathan J Rutz5, Jin-Yi Yu6, Kei Yoshimura7, Scott L Sellars1 and Ashley Elizabeth Payne1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, (5)NOAA, Boulder, United States, (6)NTU National Taiwan University, Department of Earth System Science, Taipei, Taiwan, (7)The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
 
Extreme Precipitation Events Over the Iberian Atlantic Margin: The Role of Atmospheric Rivers (20748)
Jorge Eiras-Barca, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain and Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Non Linear Physics Group, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 
Atmospheric River Development and Effects on Southern California (26824)
Sarah May Harris, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Atmospheric Rivers in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia: The Bella Coola Event of 2010 and Alaska Events of 2012 (28897)
David A Lavers, UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, CA, United States, F Martin Ralph, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Paul J Neiman, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Gary A Wick, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Carven Allen Scott, National Weather Service Alaska Region Headquarters, Environmental Scientific Services Division, Anchorage, AK, United States, Douglas McCollor, BC Hydro, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Thomas White, British Columbia Ministry of the Environment, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Dynamical processes and forecast uncertainty associated with an extreme-rain-producing atmospheric river over the southeastern U.S. during late October 2007 (29952)
Benjamin J Moore1, Lance F Bosart2 and Daniel Keyser1, (1)SUNY Albany, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, (2)University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States
 
Understanding the Role of Water Vapor Transport in Extreme Precipitation Events in Nepal (30482)
Kritika Thapa, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, United States, Theodore A Endreny, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Environmental Resources Engineering, Syracuse, United States and Craig R Ferguson, SUNY at Albany, Albany, United States