A41D:
High-Resolution Climate Modeling II Posters


Session ID#: 8453

Session Description:
The appropriate simulation of climate impacts on hydrology, ecosystems, landslides, fires, etc. requires climate models to resolve complex terrain and the physical processes creating snowfall and severe local storms.  In the past this has not been possible due to computer and model constraints leading to the use of statistical and other downscaling techniques.  In recent years, however, increasing computer power has enabled at least limited simulations at very high horizontal resolution, 4 km and below.  At these resolutions, convective parameterizations are no longer needed to resolve storms and updraft/downdraft created by complex terrain are for the most part resolved.  This session invites papers exploring the use of high resolution modeling to investigate the impact of climate change on precipitation, hydrology, evapotranspiration, ecosystems, land slides, fires, and other local phenomenon.
Primary Convener:  Roy Rasmussen, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ethan D Gutmann, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ethan D Gutmann, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Roy Rasmussen, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS: American Meteorological Society -
Index Terms:

1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate Change in the Next 30 Years: What Can a Convection-Permitting Model Tell Us that We Did Not Already Know? (60271)
Giorgia Fosser, Met Office Hadley Center, Exeter, United Kingdom, Samiro Khodayar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany and Peter Berg, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Simulation of Historical and Future Precipitation over the Wasatch (60903)
Jason Scalzitti1, Courtenay Strong1 and Adam Kochanski2, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
When does climate shift emerge in the future beyond the historical variability of precipitation? (62366)
Shoji Kusunoki, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
A High Order Vertical Representation for Increased Atmospheric Model Throughtput (70656)
David Matthew Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Comparison of ocean physical and biogeochemical mean state and climate sensitivity across ocean model resolution from 100 km to 10 km (70722)
John P Dunne, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and The GFDL CM2.6-miniBLING team
Quantifying uncertainty due to internal variability using high-resolution regional climate model simulations (74874)
Ethan D Gutmann, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Kyoko Ikeda, National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Roy Rasmussen, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Martyn P Clark, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Jeffrey Richard Arnold, MITRE Corporation Mclean, Climate + Environmental Sciences, Mclean, United States
Using High Resolution Simulations with WRF/SSiB Regional Climate Model Constrained by In Situ Observations to Assess the Impacts of Dust in Snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin (74935)
Catalina M Oaida Taglialatela1, McKenzie Skiles2, Thomas H Painter2 and Yongkang Xue3, (1)Raytheon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/PODAAC, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
Incremental dynamical downscaling for probabilistic analysis based on multiple GCM projections (77464)
Yasutaka Wakazuki, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
High Resolution Climate Modeling of the Water Cycle over the Contiguous United States Including Potential Climate Change Scenarios (80080)
Roy Rasmussen1, Kyoko Ikeda2, Changhai Liu3, David Gochis4, Fei Chen5, Michael J Barlage5, Aiguo Dai6, Jimy Dudhia7, Martyn P Clark3, Ethan D Gutmann8, Yanping Li9 and Headwater's team, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (8)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Dynamical Downscaling of Climate Change over the Hawaiian Islands (82468)
Chunxi Zhang, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Yuqing Wang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Meteorology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States, Kevin Peardon Hamilton, IPRC/Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Axel Lauer, German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Climate Model Simulation of Present and Future Extreme Events in Latin America and the Caribbean: What Spatial Resolution is Required? (83483)
Clinton M Rowe, Robert James Oglesby, Rachindra Mawalagedara and Azar Abadi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States

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