GC44A
Climate Extremes: Trends, Mechanisms, and Prediction III

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3012 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  JinHo Yoon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Hyungjun Kim, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Chairs:  JinHo Yoon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
OSPA Liaisons:  Hyungjun Kim, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
16:00
HYDROCLIMATIC EXTREMES: INFERENCES AND PREDICTION FROM A DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE (Invited) (59784)
Upmanu Lall, Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States
16:15
Linking Extreme Weather Events and Extreme ENSO States (66485)
Judith Perlwitz, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
16:30
Increasing Temperature Extremes during the Recent Global Warming Hiatus (63725)
Nathaniel C Johnson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Yu Kosaka, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan and Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
16:45
The role of anthropogenic climate change in recent Australian climate extremes (Invited) (62416)
Andrew King, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia and David J Karoly, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
17:00
A Physical Model for Extreme Drought over Southwest Asia (67115)
Andrew Hoell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Mathew A Barlow, Univ of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Forest Cannon, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
17:15
PREDICTABILITY OF EXTREME PRECIPITATIONS OVER THE CONTERMINOUS US, 1949-2010 (61423)
Mingkai Jiang and Benjamin S Felzer, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
17:30
Global and Regional Variations in Mean Temperature and Warm Extremes in Large-Member Historical AGCM Simulation (71889)
Youichi Kamae1, Hideo Shiogama2, Yukiko Imada3, Masato Mori4, Osamu Arakawa1, Ryo Mizuta5, Kohei Yoshida6, Masayoshi Ishii7, Masahiro Watanabe8, Masahide Kimoto9 and Hiroaki Ueda1, (1)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (4)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan, (5)Meteorological Research Inst., Tsukuba, Japan, (6)MRI/JMA, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, (8)University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (9)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
17:45
Trend of climate extremes in North America: A comparison between dynamically downscaled CMIP3 and CMIP5 simulations (84575)
Hsin-I Chang1, Christopher L Castro1, Linda O Mearns2 and Melissa S Bukovsky2, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States