A41J:
Toward a Better Understanding of Moist Processes and Their Role in the Climate System II Posters


Session ID#: 8652

Session Description:
The interaction of moist processes with large-scale circulation plays a vital role in the climate system because it has wide-ranging implications for the patterns of mean climate and its variability, as well as for the response to anthropogenic radiative forcing. Representing these moist process interactions and feedbacks in the framework of numerical models remains a grand challenge, and it is one of the major reasons for the systematic errors in the models and also for the uncertainty in future climate projections. This session seeks contributions that focus on identifying and understanding mechanisms controlling moist processes-climate interactions and feedbacks. Both observational and modeling studies are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, process studies of deep convection and its interaction with the climate system, feedbacks between land surface processes and moist convection, climate model biases related to moist processes, or the response of moist processes to anthropogenic radiative forcing.
Primary Convener:  Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ingo Richter, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Application Laboratory, Research Institute for Value-Added-Information Generation, Kanagawa, Japan, Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Jin-Yi Yu, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Chairs:  Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
OSPA Liaison:  Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Probing Cold Pool Dynamics using a Lagrangian Particle Model (66070)
Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States and Zhiming Kuang, Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States
What Controls the Strength of the Hydrological Cycle and Subtropical Relative Humidity in an Idealized Model? (64084)
Michelle Elizabeth Frazer1, Yi Ming2 and Isaac Held1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Boston College, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Chestnut Hill, United States
Moist formulations of the EP flux and their connection to surface westerlies in current and warmer climates (73612)
John G Dwyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Paul A O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
The Coupling of Convection, Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics, Surface Radiation, and Sea-Surface Temperature Hot Spots as Characterized by MODIS, TRMM, CERES, and ECMWF-Interim Reanalysis Data (76137)
Terence L Kubar, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Ali Behrangi, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
CAUSES: Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface (77042)
Hsi-Yen Ma1, Stephen A Klein1, Shaocheng Xie1, Cyril Julien Morcrette2, Kwinten Van Weverberg3, Yunyan Zhang4 and Min-Hui Lo5, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Ghent University, Department of Geography, Ghent, Belgium, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (5)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Estimating the gross moist stability in shallow and deep convection (77137)
Chao An Chen, Academia Sinica, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Taipei, Taiwan, Bor-Ting Jong, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Chia Chou, Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Impacts of Convective Triggering on Convective Variability in a Climate Model (80821)
Yi-Chi Wang, Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Over estimated topographic diabatic heating in NCAR CAM simulations during the Indo-Asian monsoon season (82156)
R. Paul Acosta, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
On the Relationship between Column Water Vapor and Deep Convection during GOAmazon 2014-2015: A Comparison to the Tropical Western Pacific (82866)
Kathleen A. Schiro, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States and J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Clausius-Clapeyron Scaling of Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) in Cloud-Resolving Simulations (85447)
Jacob Seeley, Harvard University, Center for the Environment, Cambridge, United States and David M Romps, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

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