A44A:
Constraining Climate Model Simulations and Predictions Using Observations II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Hui Su1, Jonathan H. Jiang1 and Leo J. Donner2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Conveners:  Hui Su, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Leo J. Donner, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
A44A-01
 
The tropospheric moisture and double-ITCZ biases in CMIP5 models
Baijun Tian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:15 PM
A44A-02
 
A-Train Observations in Extratropical Cyclones: A Comprehensive Tool for Model Evaluation
Catherine M Naud, Columbia University, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, James F Booth, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, Derek J Posselt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
4:30 PM
A44A-03
 
Constraining cloud responses to CO2 and warming in climate models: physical and statistical approaches
Steven C Sherwood1, David Fuchs2, Sandrine Bony3 and Dufresne Jean-Louis3, (1)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, (3)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France
4:45 PM
A44A-04
 
Predicting Shortwave Cloud Feedback in Models and Observations Based on the Seasonal Cycle of Liquid Water Path
Paulo Ceppi, Daniel McCoy and Dennis L. Hartmann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
5:00 PM
A44A-05
 
Observed relationship between Arctic sea ice, cloud, and solar radiation and its implication for ice-albedo feedback
Yong-Sang Choi1, Baek-Min Kim2, Sun-Kyong Hur3, Seong-Joong Kim2, Joo-hong Kim2 and Chang-Hoi Ho3, (1)Ewha Womans University, Atmospheric Science and Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (2)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (3)Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
5:15 PM
A44A-06
 
Confronting Climate Model Simulations with Satellite-Based Evaluation of Warm Rain Formation: Can We Reconcile “Bottom-up” Process-Based Constraints with the “Top-Down” Temperature Trend Constraints?
Jean-Christophe Golaz1, Kentaroh Suzuki2 and Huan Guo1, (1)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamis Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:30 PM
A44A-07
 
Climate Model Sensitivity to Moist Convection Parameter Perturbations
Diana N. Bernstein and J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
5:45 PM
A44A-08
 
Estimating climate sensitivity from an ensemble of GCM configurations optimized to outgoing TOA radiation
Kuniko Yamazaki1, Simon FB Tett2, Daniel J Rowlands3, Michael J Mineter1 and Coralia Cartis3, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
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