A42E:
Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvement II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Jui-Lin F Li, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Fanglin Yang, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Clarksville, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jui-Lin F Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Brian Medeiros, NCAR/CGD, Boulder, CO, United States and Fanglin Yang, NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
A42E-01
 
Exploiting Satellite Observations in the Development of Global Models
Robert Pincus, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
10:35 AM
A42E-02
 
Upper Air Temperature and Circulation Climatologies from GPS Radio Occultation Measurements for Climate Process Studies and Model Evaluation
Chi O Ao1, Olga P Verkhoglyadova2, Anthony J Mannucci1 and Stephen Sylvain Leroy3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States
10:50 AM
A42E-03
 
Climate Model Evaluation Using a Satellite Simulator for TRMM PR
Thomas Spangehl1, Marc Schroeder1 and Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo2, (1)Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom
11:05 AM
A42E-04
 
On the Nature of Cloud Property Errors in Contemporary Gcms: A Hindcast Approach
Mark D Zelinka and Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
11:20 AM
A42E-05
 
CAUSES: Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface
Hsi-Yen Ma1, Stephen A Klein1, Shaocheng Xie1, Yuying Zhang1, Yunyan Zhang1, Cyril Morcrette2, Kwinten Van Weverberg2, Jon Petch2 and Min-Hui Lo3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
11:35 AM
A42E-06
 
Impact of Land Initialization on Short-Term Forecast Skill During Episodes of Wet and Dry Land-Atmosphere Coupling
Hyo-Jong Song and Craig R Ferguson, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
11:50 AM
A42E-07
 
Implication of observed cloud variability for parameterizations of microphysical and radiative transfer processes in climate models
Dong Huang and Yangang Liu, Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States
12:05 PM
A42E-08
 
Far-Infrared Surface Emissivity Impacts on Climate and the Potential for a Positive Feedback
Daniel Feldman1, William Collins1, Xianglei Huang2, Xiuhong Chen2 and Von Patrick Walden3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
 
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