A12A:
Advances in High Resolution Climate Modeling II

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Session ID#: 16216

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:  Julio T Bacmeister, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip J Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Izuru Takayabu, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Sufficient Resolution for Climate Models (Invited) (144910)
Prashant D Sardeshmukh, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Towards a unified Global Weather-Climate Prediction System (Invited) (149598)
Shian-Jiann Lin, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, United States
The response of tropical-cyclone permitting coupled general circulation models to CO2 doubling: global and large-scale surface climate, and tropical cyclone activity. (184271)
Gabriel Andres Vecchi1, Thomas L Delworth2, Hiroyuki Murakami3, Seth Underwood4, Fanrong Jenny Zeng3, Wei Zhang1, Whit Anderson5, V. Balaji6, Jan-Huey Chen3, Keith W Dixon7, Rich Gudgel4, Lucas Harris8, Liwei Jia6, Sarah B Kapnick1, Thomas R Knutson9, Shian-Jiann Lin10, Gabriele Villarini11, Andrew Thorne Wittenberg1, Xiaosong Yang12, Kieran Thomas Bhatia13, Jie He14 and Karin van der Wiel15, (1)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)GFDL/NOAA, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)NOAA, Princeton, United States, (8)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (9)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (10)NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (11)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering & High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (12)NOAA, GFDL, Princeton, United States, (13)University of Miami, Miami, United States, (14)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, (15)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Using LES as a testing ground for developing scale-aware cumulus parameterizations (156371)
Roel Neggers1, Maren Weismüller1 and Vera Schemann2, (1)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (2)University of Cologne, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Cologne, Germany
The cloud-phase feedback in the Super-parameterized Community Earth System Model (141966)
Melissa A Burt, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States; Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Prof. David A Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
Optimizing an atmospheric general circulation model for weather prediction (10km) and climate (100km) resolutions. (177385)
William Putman1, Max Suarez1, Andrea Molod2, Lawrence Takacs1 and Donifan Barahona3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Framework for Improvement by Vertical Enhancement: A simple approach to improve low and high clouds in large-scale models (123369)
Takanobu Yamaguchi, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Laboratory / CIRES University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Graham Feingold, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Vincent E Larson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Utilization of Short-Simulations for Tuning High-Resolution Climate Model (196179)
Wuyin Lin1, Shaocheng Xie2, Po-Lun Ma3, Philip J Rasch3, Yun Qian4, Hui Wan3, Hsi-Yen Ma5 and Stephen A Klein5, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States

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