A51J:
Multiscale Modeling of the Atmosphere I Posters


Session ID#: 8518

Session Description:
Atmospheric phenomena operate across a wide spectrum of scales, ranging from thousands of kilometers to a handful of meters. The ability to model finer scales appropriately has been shown to produce better representations of atmospheric states. While computing power has increased greatly over the past few decades, simulating the global atmosphere at high resolution remains burdensome.  However, novel techniques such as variable-resolution global modeling, adaptive mesh refinement, and multi-model downscaling frameworks, are helping to improve regional representations of the atmosphere in addition to providing more physically realistic interactions between various atmospheric scales. This session seeks contributions regarding the development or application of multi-scale techniques for simulating the atmosphere as well as studies uncovering and addressing sensitivities arising from the response of model physics and dynamics to multiple resolutions.
Primary Convener:  Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Sang-Hun Park, Yonsei University, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, CO, South Korea and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Sang-Hun Park, Yonsei University, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, CO, South Korea
OSPA Liaison:  Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0545 Modeling [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
0550 Model verification and validation [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

High-resolution regional climate model evaluation using variable-resolution CESM over California (59181)
Xingying Huang1, Alan Rhoades1, Paul Aaron Ullrich1 and Colin M. Zarzycki2, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Assessing the Sensitivity of Simulated East Coast Winter Storms to Horizontal Resolution Using Variable-Resolution CAM (67284)
Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Spectral characteristics of mid-latitude continental convection from a global variable-resolution Voronoi-mesh atmospheric model (70497)
May Wong, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and William C Skamarock, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Upscale Effects of Variable-Resolution Meshes on the Large-Scale Circulation (74274)
Koichi Sakaguchi1, Jian Lu2, L. Ruby Leung3 and Chun Zhao2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States
Impact of vertical resolution using variable-resolution CAM-MPAS (84673)
Sang-Hun Park, Yonsei University, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, CO, South Korea
The resolution dependency of atmospheric blocking in the aqua-planet experiments (85330)
Tianyu Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Impacts of resolution-dependent physics in aquaplanet simulations (80916)
Chun Zhao1, L. Ruby Leung1, Samson M Hagos2, Jian Lu1, Koichi Sakaguchi3, JinHo Yoon1, Sang-Hun Park4, Michael Duda5 and William C Skamarock6, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Yonsei University, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, CO, South Korea, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Air-sea fluxes in a climate model using hourly coupling (62421)
Fangxing Tian, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Upscalling processes in an ocean-atmosphere multiscale coupled model (84697)
Sebastien Gildas Masson1, Sarah Berthet2, Guillaume Samson2, Julien Crétat3, Francois Colas4, Vincent Echevin5,6, Swen Jullien7, Christophe Hourdin8 and PULSATION, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)LEGOS-OMP, Toulouse, France, (3)LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)Univ Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France, (5)Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Paris, France, (6)LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris, France, (7)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (8)LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France
Anelastic and Compressible Simulation of Moist Dynamics at Planetary Scales (83753)
Marcin Kurowski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Piotr K Smolarkiewicz, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Wokingham, United Kingdom and Wojciech Grabowski, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
A method of aggregating heterogeneous subgrid land cover input data for multi-scale urban parameterization within atmospheric models (64937)
Stephen R. Shaffer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Large Eddy Simulation Embedded in Mesoscale Modeling of Convective Boundary Layers observed at the ARM SGP Central Facility (65508)
Jimin Chun, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States and Song-Lak Kang, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, United States
Controlling Factors of Long-Term Trends in Mercury Wet Deposition and Precipitation Concentrations at Huntington Wildlife Forest (62876)
Zhuyun Ye, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, Huiting Mao, SUNY-ESF, Chemistry, Syracuse, NY, United States and Charles T Driscoll, Syracuse University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States

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