A51C:
Atmospheric Circulation and Hydrological Cycle under a Changing Climate: Monsoons, Storm Tracks, and the ITCZ I Posters

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Session ID#: 12850

Session Description:
Despite recent progress in understanding the atmospheric circulation and hydrologic cycle response to global warming, our confidence in regional climate projections from state-of-the-art climate models remains poor due to the lack of understanding of the zonally asymmetric aspects of the global circulation. Improved understanding of regional climate change projections requires a combination of theory, novel diagnostic frameworks, hierarchical modeling, and comparison with observations, especially on the coupling between atmospheric circulations and moisture at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.

We welcome contributions covering theoretical, idealized and comprehensive modeling, as well as diagnostic frameworks and metrics for understanding the atmospheric circulation and its response to climate change.  Contributions including, but not limited to, monsoons, storm tracks, the ITCZ, stationary waves, blocking, and atmospheric rivers are highly encouraged.

Primary Convener:  Patrick Martineau, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Martineau, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Dargan M Frierson, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States
Chairs:  Patrick Martineau, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Geeta Persad, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Patrick Martineau, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3319 General circulation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Ongoing Poleward Shift of the ITCZ over West Africa (135115)
Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, United States, Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Sultan Hameed, Stony Brook University, SoMAS, Stony Brook, NY, United States
A Regional View of Earth’s Expanding Tropical Belt (169365)
Daniel Schmidt and Kevin M Grise, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Frequency of Mid-Tropospheric Dry Layers in the Tropical Pacific ITCZ using ERA-Interim Reanalysis (196018)
Elissa Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Anita D Rapp, Texas A&M University College Station, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX, United States and Kyle Wodzicki, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Oceanic versus atmospheric meridional energy transport response to interhemispherically-asymmetric solar forcing in the CESM (169939)
Sungduk Yu, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Mike S Pritchard, NVIDIA Corporation, NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara, United States
Analyzing Seasonal and Interannual Changes in the West African Monsoon with Machine Learning Approaches: Self-Organizing Mapping (196229)
Mollie M. Van Gordon1, Laurel Larsen2 and John C H Chiang1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States
Accurately simulating the southeast moisture transport across the Indo-Gangetic plain using high-resolution NCAR CAM AGCM (182725)
R. Paul Acosta, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
South American Monsoon: Recent Droughts in the Context of Changing Global Circulation. (168487)
Anji Seth, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Katia Fernandes, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States and Suzana J. Camargo, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Indian Monsoon Precipitation in CMIP5: The role of tropical convection in biases and inter-model spread (159483)
Samson M Hagos, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Karthik Balaguru, PNNL, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, United States and Moetasim Ashfaq, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Detection, Attribution and Projection of Regional Rainfall Changes on (Multi-) Decadal Time Scales: A Focus on Southeastern South America (183079)
Honghai Zhang1,2, Thomas L Delworth3, Fanrong Jenny Zeng4, Gabriel Andres Vecchi2, Karen Paffendorf2 and Liwei Jia5,6, (1)Princeton University, AOS, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, United States
Decadal variability of the position and strength of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone and its relationship to precipitation variability and extremes over Southeastern Brazil (182408)
Marcia T Zilli, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Benjamin R Lintner, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Substantial warming of tropical agricultural regions caused by biomass lost from neighboring forests (190144)
Avery Cohn, Tufts University, The Fletcher School, Medford, MA, United States and Members of Tufts Agriculture, Forests, & Biodiversity Group
Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling for Sahel Rainfall Variability (177092)
Juergen Bader, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, The Land in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany
Robust drying influence of mean ocean surface warming on The Sahel and implications for constraining future rainfall change (145025)
Spencer A Hill, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Ming Zhao, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Isaac Held, NOAA Princeton, Princeton, NJ, United States
The Projected Changes in the relationship between Precipitation, African Easterly Jet and African Easterly Waves under global Warming (144158)
Ibourahima Kebe, West Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptation Land Use, West African Climate System, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The effects of continental evaporation for precipitation over East Asia (169626)
Jinuk Kim1, Yu-Kyung Hyun1, Kyung-On Boo2, Sungbo Shim1 and Young-Hwa Byun1, (1)National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seogwipo-si, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Institute of Meteorological Sciences/Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea
Characterizing the Climatological Distribution of Rain Frequency and Intensity (197530)
Angeline G Pendergrass, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Evaluating hydrological cycle and extremes in an aquaplanet world using wave activity transformation (125392)
Jian Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Relative contributions of different weather systems to the changes in annual mean and extreme precipitation in CMIP5 models (172642)
Nobuyuki Utsumi, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan, Hyungjun Kim, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Shinjiro Kanae, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan and Taikan Oki, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Statistical Relationships Between the Subtropical Jet Stream and Extra-tropical Cyclones (165901)
Jiabin LIU1, John C H Chiang1, Mr Prabhat2, Burlen Loring3 and Grzegorz Muszynski4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Computational Research Division, Berkeley, United States, (4)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Observed North Pacific Atmospheric Rivers in Conditions of a Warming Climate (169393)
Katerina R Gonzales1, Daniel L Swain1 and Noah S Diffenbaugh2, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Earth System Science and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States
Beyond Cold and Warm Fronts: An Objective Classification for Maritime Mid-Latitude Fronts (185445)
Clemens Spensberger, Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Michael Sprenger, ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Wave events: climatology and relationship to Northern Hemisphere winter blocking and weather extremes (164372)
Patrick Martineau1, Gang Chen2 and David Alex Burrrows1, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Response of Persistent Wave Events to an Idealized Arctic Amplification Signature (140923)
David Alex Burrrows1, Gang Chen2 and Patrick Martineau1, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Trends in the Northern-hemisphere Climatologies of Local Wave Activity and Fluxes in a Warming Climate (197912)
Clare Huang and Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
The Role of Diabatic Heating on the Co-Variability of Finite-Amplitude Wave Activity and Zonal Index with Implications in a Changing Climate (198486)
Lei Wang, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Jian Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Edwin P Gerber, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States and Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Impacts of the North Atlantic Warming Hole on Atmospheric Circulation (159138)
Melissa Gervais1, Jeffrey L Shaman1 and Yochanan Kushnir2, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY, United States
Characteristics of Atmospheric Circulation and Hydrologic Cycle over the North Pacific on Sub-seasonal Timescale (154461)
Xuejuan Ren, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Arctic climate sensitivity to changes in North Pacific and North Atlantic ocean heat flux (193697)
Summer Kate Praetorius, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, Maria Rugenstein, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States

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