C23A:
Progress in Land Surface Modeling in Cold Regions for Earth System Models II Posters

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Session ID#: 12571

Session Description:
The predictive capability of land surface models with respect to processes and properties of cold regions has advanced in recent years. Improvements to algorithms representing snowpack evolution, vegetation-snow interaction, and the thermal and hydrological properties of frozen soils offer the promise of enhanced performance in Earth System Models (ESMs), which will enable a better understanding of the response of cold regions to and interaction with changes in climate. For this session, we invite papers presenting the implementation of new or improved algorithms related to snow or land surface processes in cold regions in ESMs or their land surface components. Papers documenting the performance of large-scale models in cold regions, including those participating in the ESM Snow Model Intercomparison Project (ESM-SnowMIP) are also welcome.
Primary Convener:  Paul A Bartlett, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Gerhard Krinner, LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Chairs:  Gerhard Krinner, LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Richard Essery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Paul A Bartlett, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]
1823 Frozen ground [HYDROLOGY]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Simulation of Snow and Winter Albedo in the Canadian Land Surface Scheme: Preliminary Results for ESM-SnowMIP (140835)
Paul A Bartlett1, Libo Wang2, Diana Verseghy1 and Joe Melton3, (1)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Processes Section, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Victoria, BC, Canada
Coupling hydraulic and hydrological models to simulate the streamflow of a large arctic river: The case of the Mackenzie River (183750)
Dr. Mohamed Elshamy, MSc PhD, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Alain Pietroniro, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Howard S. Wheater, Centre for Hydrology and Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Quantifying the uncertainty in historical and future simulations of Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover (163683)
Chad William Thackeray1, Christopher G Fletcher1, Lawrence Mudryk2 and Chris Derksen2, (1)University of Waterloo, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Impact of Dynamic Vegetation on Land-Atmosphere Interactions over a Pan-Arctic Domain (148565)
Bernardo Stephan Teufel and Laxmi Sushama, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Advances in RUC LSM snow component to address cold biases in snow-covered regions in RAP and HRRR (161943)
Tatiana G Smirnova1, Stan Benjamin2 and John M Brown2, (1)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Towards an Improved Representation of Polar Snow and Firn in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) (140913)
Leo van Kampenhout1, Jan Lenaerts2, William H Lipscomb3, William Sacks4 and Michiel R van den Broeke2, (1)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Effects of modeling decisions on cold region hydrological model performance: snow, soil and streamflow (165650)
Keith N Musselman1, Martyn P Clark1, Abraham Melesse Endalamaw2, Bob Bolton3, Bart Nijssen4 and Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)US Army Corps of Engineers, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Programs, Jacksonville, FL, United States
The Implement of a Multi-layer Frozen Soil Scheme into SSiB3 and its Evaluation over Cold Regions (195723)
Qian Li, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
Quantifying the role of permafrost distribution in groundwater dynamics and surface water interactions using a three-dimensional hydrological model (157771)
Chang Liao, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Qianlai Zhuang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States
Testing turbulence schemes in land models during stable conditions (186829)
Karl E Lapo1, Martyn P Clark2, Bart Nijssen1 and Jessica D Lundquist3, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States
Lake Ice Observations and Modeling: Case Study of Lake Mendota Winter 2015-2016 (162157)
David E Reed1, Ankur R Desai2, Henry Nuckels3, Jonathan E Thom3, Chin H Wu4 and Christopher Enos3, (1)Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin - Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States

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