A34E:
Precipitation—From Too Little to Too Much: Emerging Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers and Calwater Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Studies II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kimberly A Prather, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
A34E-01
 
The CalWater 2 - ARM Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (ACAPEX)
Lai-Yung Leung1, Kimberly A Prather2, F Martin Ralph2, Daniel Rosenfeld3, J. Ryan Spackman4, Chris W Fairall5, Paul J DeMott6, Jiwen Fan1 and Chun Zhao7, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States
4:15 PM
A34E-02
 
Ice Nucleating Particles and their Role in California Winter Clouds
Paul J DeMott1, Kimberly A Prather2, Thomas Christopher James Hill1, Christina S McCluskey1, Ezra JT Levin1, Kaitlyn J Suski3, Jessie Creamean4, Douglas B Collins2, Andrew Martin5, Gavin Cornwell2, Hashim Al-Mashat2, Daniel Rosenfeld6, L. Ruby Leung7, Jennifer M Comstock8, Jason M Tomlinson8, Sonia M Kreidenweis9 and Markus D Petters10, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (7)Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (9)Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (10)North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, United States
4:30 PM
A34E-03
 
Storm dynamics orographic kinematics and naturally emitted aerosols conspire to create a natural cloud seeding environment over California
Andrew Martin, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Kimberly A Prather, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Kaitlyn J Suski, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
4:45 PM
A34E-04
 
Influence of Large-scale Climate Modes on Atmospheric Rivers That Drive Regional Precipitation Extremes
Bin Guan1, Noah P Molotch2, Duane Edward Waliser3, Eric J Fetzer3 and Paul J Neiman4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
5:00 PM
A34E-05
 
Untangling the Impacts of Climate Variability on Atmospheric Rivers and Western U.S. Precipitation Using PERSIANN-CONNECT
Scott L Sellars, Xiaogang Gao, Kuo-lin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian and Staryl McCabe-Glynn, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
5:15 PM
A34E-06
 
Implementation and Initial Application of an Atmospheric River Detection Tool Based on Integrated Vapor Transport
Gary A Wick, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
5:30 PM
A34E-07
 
Atmospheric Rivers in the CESM: Validation, Connections to Extreme Precipitation, and Projections for the Future
Christine A Shields, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey Theodore Kiehl, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
5:45 PM
A34E-08
 
Atmospheric Rivers in a Hierarchy of High-Resolution Global Atmospheric Models
Marie-Estelle Demory1, Reinhard Schiemann2, David Anthony Lavers3, Matthew Mizielinski4, Pier Luigi Vidale5 and Malcolm Roberts4, (1)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)NCAS Climate, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
 
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