A54E:
Regional Climate Modeling IV

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States and Jason Peter Evans, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Primary Conveners:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States
Co-conveners:  Lai-Yung Leung, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lai-Yung Leung, Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Exploring a Multi-resolution Approach Using AMIP Simulations
Koichi Sakaguchi1, L. Ruby Leung2, Chun Zhao1, Qing Yang3, Jian Lu3, Samson M Hagos3, Todd D. Ringler4, Sara Rauscher5 and Li Dong6, (1)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pac NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)LANL, LOS ALAMOS, NM, United States, (5)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (6)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States
4:15 PM
 
Variable-Resolution Ensemble Climatology Modeling of Sierra Nevada Snowpack within the Community Earth System Model (CESM)
Alan Rhoades1, Paul Aaron Ullrich2, Colin M. Zarzycki3,4, Michael Levy4 and Mark Taylor5, (1)University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Univ California Davis, Fremont, CA, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
4:30 PM
 
Arctic Storms in a Regionally Refined Atmospheric General Circulation Model
Erika L Roesler, Mark Taylor, Mark Boslough and Sharon Sullivan, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
4:45 PM
 
Projections of Increased Intensity of Summer Rainfall over the UK from Very High Resolution Regional Climate Model Simulations
Hayley J Fowler1, Elizabeth J Kendon2, Steven C Chan3, Nigel M Roberts4, Malcolm Roberts2 and Catherine A Senior2, (1)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1, United Kingdom, (4)MetOffice@Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
5:00 PM
 
Climatic impact of urbanization in Eastern China: modeling the combined urban heat island and aerosol effects
Yun Qian1, Ben Yang1, Chun Zhao2, L. Ruby Leung3, Huiping Yan4 and Jiwen Fan5, (1)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (2)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pac NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (4)PNNL, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
5:15 PM
 
Land-Use Change Impacts on Intensity, Duration, and Frequency of Precipitation in the South Platte River Basin
Aaron Pina, Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and A Scott Denning, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
5:30 PM
 
Evaluating the Respective Impact of the Radiative Forcing and Fertilization Response of Vegetation to a Carbon Dioxide Enriched Atmosphere during Severe Heatwaves in Western Europe
Leo Adrien Lemordant, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Marc Stéfanon, CEA Saclay DSM / LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France and Philippe Drobinski, CNRS, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau Cedex, France; Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France
5:45 PM
 
Lake-river-atmosphere Interactions as Simulated by the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) over North-east Canada
Oleksandr Huziy, Laxmi Sushama and René Laprise, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
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