A12E:
Physics of Climate Models II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Steven K Krueger, Univ of Utah-Meteorology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Conveners:  Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Steven K Krueger, Univ of Utah-Meteorology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Yangang Liu, Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States and Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Yangang Liu, Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Air-Sea interactions:Observations and models
Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
10:35 AM
 
The Vertical Profile of Ocean Mixing
Raffaele M Ferrari1, Maxim Nikurashin2, Trevor J McDougall3 and Alizera Mashayek1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
10:50 AM
 
Anisotropic Mesoscale Eddy Transport in Ocean General Circulation Models
Scott James Reckinger1, Baylor Fox-Kemper1, Scott Bachman2, Frank Bryan3, John Dennis3 and Gokhan Danabasoglu3, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:05 AM
 
A new framework for parameterization of heterogeneous ocean convection
Mehmet Ilicak1, Alistair Adcroft2 and Sonya Legg2, (1)Uni Research, Bergen, Norway, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:20 AM
 
Accurate and Robust Quantification of Energy Pathways in the Ocean
Matthew W Hecht, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States and Geoffrey K Vallis, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
11:35 AM
 
11:50 AM
 
An Analysis of Interannual Variabilities in High Cloud Cover from AIRS Data: Imprints of the El NiƱo-Southern Oscillation and Comparison to Models
Yuk L Yung1, Katie Antilla1, Sze-Ning Mak2, Tiffany M Chang3, King-Fai Li4, Hui Su5, Sun Wong6 and Jonathan H. Jiang6, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
12:05 PM
 
Scale dependence of entrainment-mixing processes and microphysical properties: facts from observations, insights from theory, and implications for related parameterizations
Yangang Liu1, Chunsong Lu2, Satoshi Endo3, Wuyin Lin3 and Shengjie Niu2, (1)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States, (2)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
 
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