A41E:
Improving Clouds and Water Vapor Simulations in Climate Models and Observing System Simulation Experiments II Posters


Session ID#: 9069

Session Description:
This session covers two related topics including "Clouds and Water Vapor Simulations in Climate Models" as well as "Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)".

First, this joint session invites studies focusing on: (1) climate model improvements in simulating clouds and water vapor, including using observations to quantify model biases and guide model improvements; (2) advances in understanding physical and dynamical processes that are helpful for improving model parametrization of clouds and humidity fields.

Second, it also covers all aspects of the applications of OSSEs including, but not limited to: (1) Validation of free-running Earth System Model (ESM) or “Nature run", (2) Simulation of different observations from "Nature run" including discussions around forward models, (3) Assimilating data from future instruments using OSSE experiments, (4) Evaluating different data assimilation technique using OSSEs, (5) Investigating the impact of new data types on data assimilation using OSSEs, (6) Other applications of OSSE such as retrieval of geophysical variables.
Primary Convener:  Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Leo Donner, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Isaac Moradi, CICS/ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Nikki Prive, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Isaac Moradi, CICS/ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States; Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Leo Donner, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States

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

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluation of CO Distribution and Variation in the UTLS from GMI and GEOS-Chem Simulations by Using Aura MLS Observations (62779)
Lei Huang, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Lee T Murray, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Megan Rose Damon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
An Assessment of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis: Comparisons with MLS and In Situ Water Vapor Measurements (66075)
Henry B Selkirk1,2, Andrea Molod3,4, Steven Pawson5, Anne R Douglass2, Holger Voemel6, Dale F Hurst7,8, Jonathan H. Jiang9, William G Read10, Michael J Schwartz11 and Michael Manyin2,12, (1)GESTAR, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (7)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Evaluation of Aerosol Properties in GCMs using Satellite Measurements (66766)
Yuan Wang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Hongliang Zhang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Implementation of new empirical parameterization for cloud droplet number concentrations to HadGEM2-AO (68237)
Hannah Lee, Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Seong Soo Yum, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Evaluation of subtropical marine low stratiform clouds in CMIP5 AMIP experiments using ISCCP observations and simulator outputs (68799)
Tsuyoshi Koshiro, Hideaki Kawai and Seiji Yukimoto, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
Interannual Variabilities in High Cloud Cover from AIRS Data and Comparison to Climate Models (70670)
King-Fai Li1, Sze Ning Mak2, Tiffany M Chang3, Katie Antilla4, Hui Su5, Sun Wong5, Jonathan H. Jiang4 and Yuk L Yung6, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
An Assessment of the Cirrus Cloud Representation in the Tropical Tropopause Layer of the CAM5/CARMA Model Through Comparisons With ATTREX 3 and CALIPSO Observations (73027)
Christopher Maloney, University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Brian Toon, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC/LASP, Boulder, CO, United States and Charles Bardeen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Evaluation of a GCM with the CERES Flux-by-Cloud Type Simulator (75034)
Zachary Eitzen1, Wenying Su2, Kuan-Man Xu2, Norman G Loeb2, David R Doelling2, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo3, Moguo Sun4 and Fred G Rose5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA, United States
Post-CMIP5 Model Improvements in Clouds and Water Vapor (81070)
Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Impact of deep convection to water vapor vertical transport in the lower stratosphere at high latitudes (84732)
Chuntao Liu, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Data Assimilation-Based SST Reconstruction from Coral δ18Ο Records (84790)
Maud Comboul, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Julien Emile-Geay, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Gregory J Hakim, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States and Michael N Evans, University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
OSSE Evaluation of Prospective Aircraft Reconnaissance Flight Patterns and their Impact on Hurricane Forecasts (85887)
Kelly Elizabeth Ryan1, Lisa R. Bucci2, Hui Christophersen3,4, Robert M Atlas5, Shirley Murillo5 and Peter Dodge3, (1)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, United States, (2)University of Miami, CIMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (3)NOAA-AOML, Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL, United States, (4)University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, CIMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (5)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Improving US Winter Storm Forecasts using Simulated Dropsondes in the GFS Model (73500)
Jason M English1,2, Tanya Rae Peevey2,3, Hongli Wang4, Lidia Cucurull5 and Andrew Kren6, (1)NOAA GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, ESRL Global Systems Division, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL, United States
Retrieved Products from Simulated Hyperspectral Observations of a Hurricane (67495)
Lena Fornito Iredell1, Joel Susskind2, John M Blaisdell3,4 and Louis C Kouvaris2,3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Applications International Corporation Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
An instrument simulator for geostationary satellites (70063)
Patricia Castellanos1, Arlindo da SIlva2, Virginie Buchard2 and Ravi Govindaraju3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (Code 610.1), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
IMPACT OF CYGNSS DATA ON HURRICANE ANALYSES AND FORECASTS IN A REGIONAL OSSE FRAMEWORK (83113)
Bachir Annane1, Brian Daniel McNoldy2, Lisa R. Bucci1, Javier Delgado1, Robert M Atlas3 and Sharanya Majumdar4, (1)University of Miami, CIMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, United States, (3)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Univ Miami, Miami, FL, United States

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