A52B:
Innovative Insights into the Climate System and Climate Models: Exploring Scales and Parameter Spaces I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Aaron Donohoe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Brian H Kahn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 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 Liaisons:  Travis Allen O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
What Sets the Relative Humidity of the Tropical Troposphere?
David M Romps, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
10:35 AM
 
Atmospheric Moisture Budget and Spatial Resolution Dependenceof Precipitation Extremes in Aquaplanet Simulations
Qing Yang1, L. Ruby Leung1, Sara Rauscher2, Todd D. Ringler2 and Mark Taylor3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)LANL, LOS ALAMOS, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
10:50 AM
 
Unexpected Results are Usually Wrong, but Often Interesting
Matthew Huber, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States
11:05 AM
 
Scaling and Randomness of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies
Laure Zanna and Luca Porta Mana, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
11:20 AM
 
Tropical cyclone-permitting simulations of un-Earthlike climates
Timothy M Merlis, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Ming Zhao, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamis Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, United States and Isaac Held, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:35 AM
 
Multifractal Analysis of Large Eddy Simulations of Marine Stratocumulus
Colleen M. Kaul1, Kyle G Pressel1 and Joao Teixeira2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:50 AM
 
Spatial Variances of Wind Fields and Their Relation to Second-Order Structure Functions and Spectra
Gregory P King1,2, Jur Vogelzang3, Ad Stoffelen3 and Marcos Portabella1, (1)Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (2)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing, China, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
12:05 PM
 
Tinkering With AGCMs To Investigate Atmospheric Behavior
Cecilia M Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
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