A11J:
Toward a Better Understanding of Moist Process Feedbacks and Their Role in the Climate System I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Ingo Richter, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Primary Conveners:  Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Ingo Richter, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Min-Hui Lo, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan and Jin-Yi Yu, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Local and Remote Controls on Forced Sahelian Rainfall
Spencer A Hill, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Free-Tropospheric Moisture Convergence and Tropical Convective Regimes
Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Understanding the mechanisms that control the diurnal phase of tropical convection using a hierarchy of models.
Cheikh Oumar Mbengue1,2, Tapio Schneider2, Joao Teixeira3, Kyle Pressel2, Zhihong Tan1 and Colleen M. Kaul2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Summertime central U.S. warm bias examined in the short-term hindcasts
Hsi-Yen Ma1, Stephen A Klein1, Shaocheng Xie1, Min-Hui Lo2, Yuying Zhang1 and Yunyan Zhang1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Zonally asymmetric circulations and Earth's dry regions
Xavier J Levine and William R Boos, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
Impacts of model resolution and physics on the diurnal rainfall cycle over tropical lands
Yi-Chi Wang, Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Impacts of Vertical Structure of Convection on Tropical Circulation in a Warmer Climate
Chao An Chen1 and Chia Chou1,2, (1)Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
The Influence of a Single Northern Hemisphere Continent on Tropical Precipitation and Climate in Idealized GCM Experiments
Elizabeth Maroon1, Dargan M Frierson1, Sarah M Kang2 and Jacob Scheff3, (1)Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Increasing Skewness of the Vertical Velocity Distribution Shifts Rainfall to Heavier Rates
Angeline G Pendergrass, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
NU-WRF Simulations of Heavy Rain Events Over Mid-West US in the Spring 2011
Yaping Zhou1, William K-M Lau2, Di Wu3 and Wei-Kuo Tao3, (1)GESTAR/Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The atmospheric heat engine response to climate change
Olivier M Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY, United States
 
Quantifying the relationships between precipitation and atmospheric radiative cooling on a range of scales
Alexandra C Naegele and David A Randall, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
CESM cloud feedback: connections to the storm tracks and tropical circulation
Benjamin M Wagman and Charles S Jackson, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
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