GC31C:
Climatology and Trends of Extreme Events in Climate Models Capable of Resolving Regional-Scale Processes I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Donald J Wuebbles, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, William Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL, United States
Co-conveners:  William Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Extreme Precipitation: Resolving the Added Value of High-Resolution Physical and Statistical Modeling
Katharine Hayhoe1, Anne Marie K Stoner1, Jiali Wang2, Ian Scott-Fleming1, Sachith Abeysundara1 and Veerabhadra Rao Kotamarthi3, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (3)Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL, United States
8:15 AM
 
Extreme Daily Precipitation in North American Climate Simulations: Scales and Processes
William J Gutowski Jr, Justin M Glisan, Sho Kawazoe and Kevin M Smalley, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Atmospheric Rivers in the Southwestern US: Climatology and Possible Future Changes
Francina Dominguez and Erick R Rivera-fernandez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
8:45 AM
 
Daily Temperature Records in a Warming Climate
Gerald A Meehl and Claudia Tebaldi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
9:00 AM
 
Bayesian Inversion for Large Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow
Omar Ghattas1,2, Tobin Isaac2, Noemi Petra3 and Georg Stadler2,4, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of California Merced, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, (4)New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States
9:15 AM
 
Preparing CAM-SE for Multi-Tracer Applications: CAM-SE-Cslam
Peter Hjort Lauritzen1, Mark Taylor2 and Steve Goldhaber1, (1)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
9:30 AM
 
NICAM 870m mesh simulations on the K computer and a road toward global LES
Hisashi Yashiro1, Hirofumi Tomita1 and Satoh Masaki2, (1)RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Sciences, Kobe, Japan, (2)AORI The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
9:45 AM
 
Why Do Gcms Have Trouble with the MJO?
Charlotte A DeMott, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and David A Randall, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States