EP51E:
Verification, Validation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Scaling Challenges in Geophysical and Surface Process Models I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Conveners:  Fabian A Bombardelli, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Kaveh Zamani, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Jordan Marie Adams, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States and Daniel E. J. Hobley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Fabian A Bombardelli, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Exploring Post-Wildfire Hydrologic Response in Central Colorado Using Field Observations and the Landlab Modeling Framework.
Jordan Marie Adams, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States, Francis K Rengers, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Nicole M Gasparini, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States, Gregory E Tucker, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Sai Siddhartha Nudurupati, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Daniel E. J. Hobley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Eric W.H. Hutton, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, CO, United States
 
No Future in the Past? The role of initial topography on landform evolution model predictions
Greg R Hancock, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Tom J Coulthard, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom and John Lowry, Hydrologic, Geomorphic and Chemical Processes Program, Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist, Darwin, Australia
 
A Comparison of the CHILD and Landlab Computational Landscape Evolution Models and Examples of Best Practices in Numerical Modeling of Surface Processes
Nicole M Gasparini1, Daniel E. J. Hobley2, Gregory E Tucker3, Erkan Istanbulluoglu4, Jordan Marie Adams5, Sai Siddhartha Nudurupati4 and Eric W.H. Hutton6, (1)Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States, (6)Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Calibration of the 2D Hydrodynamic Model Floodos and Implications of Distributed Friction on Sediment Transport Capacity
Thomas Croissant, Dimitri Lague and Philippe Davy, University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France
 
Uncertanity Analysis in Parameter Estimation of Coupled Bacteria-Sediment Fate and Transport in Streams
Arash Massoudieh1, Tri Le1 and Yakov A Pachepsky2, (1)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (2)USDA ARS, BARC, ANRI, Beltsville, MD, United States
 
Simulating Topographic Inversion during Deglaciation
Peter L Moore, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
 
A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Scheme for Estimating Erosion Rates Under Current Climate Conditions
Lauren Lowman and Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
 
Scale Invariance in Landscape Evolution Models Using Stream Power Laws
Jeffrey S Kwang and Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Verification of Predictability between Global Seasonal Forecasting System Version 5 and Unified Model for 12-Day Forecast Period
Sang-Min Lee, Yeon-Hee Kim, Chun-Ho Cho and Hyun-Suk Kang, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea
 
Toward an Objective Method to Distinguishing Deltaic Depositional Environments
Adrienne E Block, Martin Perlmutter, Julian Thorne and Michael Pyrcz, Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
Verification & Validation Toolkit to Assess Codes: Is it Theory Limitation, Numerical Method Inadequacy, Bug in the Code or a Serious Flaw?
Fabian A Bombardelli, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Kaveh Zamani, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Code and Solution Verification of 3D Numerical Modeling of Flow in the Gust Erosion Chamber
Alexander Yuen, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Fabian A Bombardelli, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Validation of numerical simulation of the mean flow and turbulence on the non-aerated zone of a stepped spillway 
Juan Pablo Toro, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Quantifying uncertainty and variability in sediment yield estimates in Le Sueur River Basin
Karthik Kumarasamy and Patrick Belmont, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States
 
A low-order model for long-range infrasound propagation in random atmospheric waveguides
Christophe Millet, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France and Francois Lott, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique - LMD, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
 
Improvement of Surface Temperature Prediction Using SVR with MOGREPS Data for Short and Medium range over South Korea
Sung-Joon Lim, Reno K Choi, Kwang-Deuk Ahn, Jong-Chul Ha and Chun-Ho Cho, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seogwipo-si, South Korea
 
Tectonics from Fluvial Topography Using Formal Linear Inversion: Theory and Applications to the Inyo Mountains, California
Liran Goren, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Matthew Fox, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Sean Willett, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Verification of Precipitation Forecasts from Two Numerical Weather Prediction Models for the Middle- and North-Eastern Region of the USA
Ridwan Siddique1, James Brown2, Seann M Reed3 and Alfonso Mejia1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Hydrologic Solutions Limited, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)National Weather Service, Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center, State College, PA, United States
 
Suite of Benchmark Tests to Conduct Mesh-Convergence Analysis of Nonlinear and Non-constant Coefficient Transport Codes
Kaveh Zamani, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Fabian A Bombardelli, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States