A43J
Process-Oriented Evaluation of Climate Model Physics Using Observations and High-Resolution Models I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3010 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Conveners:  Matthew D Lebsock1, Minghuai Wang2 and Joao Teixeira1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Chairs:  Matthew D Lebsock1, Minghuai Wang2, Joao Teixeira1 and Kentaroh Suzuki3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China(3)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Matthew D Lebsock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
13:40
Constraining Processes Involved with Aerosol Effects on Cloud Radiative Forcing (Invited) (58276)
Steven John Ghan1, Minghuai Wang2, Shipeng Zhang2, Hailong Wang1, Kai Zhang1, David Neubauer3, Ulrike Lohmann3, Sylvaine Ferrachat3, Toshihiko Takemura4, Andrew Gettelman5, Hugh Morrison5 and Jan Griesfeller6, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
13:55
Control of Shortwave Radiation Parameterization on Tropical Climate Simulation (77708)
Julien Crétat1, Sebastien Gildas Masson2, Sarah Berthet3, Guillaume Samson4, Pascal Terray5, Jimy Dudhia6, Françoise Pinsard5 and Christophe Hourdin5, (1)LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)CICESE, Ensenada Baja Califo, Mexico, (4)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (5)LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
14:10
A-Train Based Observational Metrics for Model Evaluation in Extratropical Cyclones (69911)
Catherine M Naud, Columbia University, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, James F Booth, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Derek J Posselt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
14:40
Global climate impacts of fixing the Southern Ocean shortwave radiation bias in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) (Invited) (58208)
Jennifer E Kay1, Brian Medeiros2, Vineel Kumar Reddy Yettella1, Cecile Hannay3, Peter Caldwell4, Casey Wall5 and Cecilia M Bitz6, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
14:55
Summer Arctic Clouds in the ECMWF Forecast Model: an Evaluation of Cloud Parameterization Schemes (64334)
Georgia Sotiropoulou1, Joseph Sedlar1, Richard Forbes2 and Michael K H Tjernstrom1, (1)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
15:10
Bayesian Exploration of Cloud Microphysical Sensitivities in Mesoscale Cloud Systems (Invited) (58387)
Derek J Posselt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
15:25
Synthesis of Entrainment and Detrainment formulations for Convection Parameterizations (Invited) (58721)
Pier Siebesma, Technical University of Delft (TUD), Delft, Netherlands; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
 
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