A33P
Improving Clouds and Water Vapor Simulations in Climate Models and Observing System Simulation Experiments I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3008 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Jonathan H. Jiang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Leo Donner, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Nikki Prive, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Leo Donner, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
13:40
A33P-01
Clouds in the next generation of the Community Earth System Model (Invited) (60280)
Andrew Gettelman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and CESM Atmospheric Model Development Team
13:55
A33P-02
Observing System Simulation Experiments for Hurricanes (Invited) (59500)
Robert M Atlas1, Ross N Hoffman2, Lisa Bucci3, Bachir Annane3 and Shirley Murillo1, (1)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)University of Miami, CIMAS, Miami, FL, United States
14:10
A33P-03
Resolution dependance of Convection, Macro- and Micro-Physical Moist Processes in the GEOS-5 AGCM: Spanning from 200 to 12 km (Invited) (60311)
Andrea Molod, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
14:25
A33P-04
Evaluation and Application of a Rigorously Validated Ocean OSSE System to Improve Ocean Model Initialization for Coupled Hurricane Prediction (82218)
George R Halliwell Jr1, Vassiliki Kourafalou2, Ioannis Androulidakis3, HeeSook Kang2, Michael F Mehari4, Robert M Atlas1 and Matthieu Le Henaff2, (1)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, NOAA/AOML/PhOD, Miami, FL, United States
14:40
A33P-05
Incorporation of New Convective Ice Microphysics into the NASA GISS GCM and Impacts on Cloud Ice Water Path (IWP) Simulation (Invited) (60355)
Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States and Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
14:55
A33P-06
Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud Variations with Sea Surface Temperature in Observations and Models (68717)
Hui Su1, Jungmin Park2, Tsae-Pyng J Shen1, Jonathan H. Jiang1, Yong-Sang Choi3, Chengxing Zhai1 and Lei Huang1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Ewha Womans University, Atmospheric Science and Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
15:10
A33P-07
The impact of satellite wind measurements on hurricane forecasts in OSSEs: Ocean surface winds versus 3-D wind profiles (67898)
Zhaoxia Pu and Shixuan Zhang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
15:25
A33P-08
Value-added Impact from Future Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder Observations on Hurricane Forecasts (63686)
Jun Li1, Timothy J. Schmit2, Zhenglong Li3, Feng Zhu1, Agnes Lim3, Robert M Atlas4 and Pereira John5, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)ASPB/CoRP/STAR/NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States, (3)CIMSS/SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (4)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (5)OPPA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
 
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