A13A:
Advances in High Resolution Climate Modeling III Posters

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Session ID#: 15040

Session Description:
The appropriate simulation of climate impacts on hydrology, ecosystems, landslides, fires, etc. requires climate models to resolve complex terrain and the physical processes creating snowfall and severe local storms.  In the past this has not been possible due to computer and model constraints leading to the use of statistical and other downscaling techniques.  In recent years, however, increasing computer power has enabled at least limited simulations at very high horizontal resolution, 4 km and below.  At these resolutions, convective parameterizations are no longer needed to resolve storms and updraft/downdraft created by complex terrain are for the most part resolved.  This session invites papers exploring the use of high resolution modeling to investigate the impact of climate change on precipitation, hydrology, evapotranspiration, ecosystems, land slides, fires, and other local phenomenon.
Primary Convener:  Roy Rasmussen, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Philip J Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Izuru Takayabu, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan and Julio T Bacmeister, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Izuru Takayabu1, Julio T Bacmeister2, Philip J Rasch3 and Roy Rasmussen2, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan(2)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States(3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julio T Bacmeister, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A New High Resolution Climate Dataset for Climate Change Impacts Assessments in New England (125561)
Muge Komurcu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States and Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Changes in Precipitation Characteristics over North America by the Late 21st Century Simulated by a Convection-Permitting Model (126615)
Aiguo Dai, University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Roy Rasmussen, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Changhai Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Kyoko Ikeda, National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Ability of WRF to Simulate Rainfall Distribution Over West Africa: Role of Horizontal Resolution and Dynamical Processes (127308)
Kouakou Kouadio1, Abdourahamane Konare2, Sophie Bastin3 and Vincent Olanrewaju Ajayi1, (1)West Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptation Land Use, Graduate Research Program on West African Climate Systems (GRP-WACS),Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, (2)universitéFelix Houphouet Boigny, Science des Structures de la matiere et de Technologie, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire, (3)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
Evaluation of thermal environment modification due to land-use/land-cover change and the global climate change over the Tokyo Metropolitan area (132864)
Masayuki Hara, Tomohide Shimada and Junichi Wakisaka, Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Kazo, Japan
Extreme Precipitation Events in the Valley of Mexico as Revealed by a Long-term Climate Simulation (135503)
Thang Manh Manh Luong1, Christopher L Castro2, Carlos Abraham Ochoa1, Arturo Quintanar1 and David K Adams3, (1)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Extreme Landfalling Atmospheric River Events in Arizona: Possible Future Changes (137741)
Itinderjot Singh, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
HIGH RESOLUTION MODELING IN MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN FOR WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: AN EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENT CASE STUDY (151129)
Matthew T. Masarik1, Katelyn FitzGerald1, Alejandro N Flores2, Korri Anderson3 and Spencer Tangen3, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)National Weather Service, Forecast Office, Boise, ID, United States
Added value of convection-permitting regional climate model simulations for storms over the German Bight and Northern Germany (156608)
Benjamin Schaaf, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Frauke Feser, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
High resolution regional climate simulation of the Hawaiian Islands – Validation of the historical run from 2003 to 2012 (161614)
Lulin Xue1, Andrew James Newman2, Kyoko Ikeda3, Roy Rasmussen2, Martyn P Clark4 and Andrew J Monaghan5, (1)Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Boulder, United States, (2)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Summer Leeside Rainfall Maxima over the Island of Hawaii (189310)
Yu-Fen Huang, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, United States and Yi-Leng Chen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
High Resolution Regional Climate Simulations over Alaska (193182)
Andrew J Monaghan1, Martyn P Clark2, Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold3, Andrew James Newman4, Keith N Musselman2, Michael J Barlage5, Lulin Xue6, Changhai Liu7, Ethan D Gutmann8 and Roy Rasmussen4, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Programs, Jacksonville, FL, United States, (4)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, United States, (6)Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Boulder, United States, (7)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Numerical simulation of the sea breeze, ideal and realistic: Baja California, Mexico case (179415)
Gabriela Colorado1, Efrain Mateos2 and Rosario Ayala2, (1)IMTA Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Jiutepec, Mexico, (2)Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Jiutepec, Mexico
The Simulated Response of Mountain Breeze Circulations to Regionally Enhanced Warming Caused by the Snow Albedo Feedback (182291)
Theodore Letcher, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States and Justin R Minder, State University of New York, University at Albany, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States
Dynamical Downscaling Overcomes Deficiencies in Gridded Precipitation Products in the Sierra Nevada, California (196385)
Mimi Abel, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and Brian M Henn, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Evaluation of snow depth over Japan simulated by a non-hydrostatic regional climate model (173414)
Rui Ito1, Hidetaka Sasaki2, Hiroaki Kawase3, Takahiro Sasai4, Takeshi Yamazaki5 and Koji Dairaku1, (1)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (5)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Using Satellite- and Ground-Based Simulators to Evaluate the US DOE Climate Model (ACME) Simulated Clouds (162226)
Yuying Zhang1, Shaocheng Xie2, Wuyin Lin3, Stephen A Klein1, Marcia L Branstetter4, Katherine J Evans5, Roger Marchand6, Pavlos Kollias7 and Eugene Edmund Clothiaux8, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (8)Penn State, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
Use Short and Nudged Simulations to Understand Resolution Sensitivity of Clouds and Their Radiative Effects in Climate Models (166238)
Kai Zhang, Hui Wan and Philip J Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
High-Resolution Climate Model Analyses of Extratropical Transition of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones (179011)
Dr. Maofeng Liu, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States, Gabriel Andres Vecchi, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and James A Smith, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Cloud and Circulation Feedbacks in a Near-Global Aquaplanet Cloud-Resolving Model (136676)
Pornampai Narenpitak, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Christopher Stephen Bretherton, Allen Institute for AI, Seattle, United States and Marat Khairoutdinov, Stony Brook University, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Role of moist processes in the development of the March 2005 atmospheric river event (192416)
Ashley Elizabeth Payne, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Hypsometric analysis improves topography-based subgrid structures for land surface modeling (167005)
Teklu K Tesfa and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
A statistical downscaling using high resolution regional climate model simulation results (191669)
Yasutaka Wakazuki, Ibaraki University and JAMSTEC, Mito, Japan
A Scale-Adaptive Turbulent Kinetic Energy Closure for the Dry Convective Boundary Layer (190575)
Marcin Kurowski and Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Acceleration of a Semi Implicit Non-hydrostatic Atmospheric Model on Many Core Architecture (139622)
Daniel S Abdi, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, Francis Giraldo, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Applied Mathematics, Monterey, CA, United States, Lucas Wilcox, Naval Postgraduate School, Pacific Grove, CA, United States and Timothy Warburton, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Aeras: A Performance Portable, High-Resolution Global Atmosphere Model (188551)
William Frederick Spotz and Irina Tezaur, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

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