A13L:
Improving Physical Process Representation in Global Models I

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Session ID#: 16246

Session Description:
Use of detailed observations, theoretical understanding and process modeling to improve the physical processes representation in global models is a top research priority of US CLIVAR and the broader earth science community. Translation of improved understanding from process studies to earth system models (ESMs) include identification of poorly represented physical processes; improved representation of the process via parameterization or by explicit representation; rigorous evaluation of these changes. These approaches require contributions from many different specialists. Hence, more rapid communication between these various groups would speed progress. 

 This session intends to facilitate this progress by (1) identifying opportunities for transferring new process understanding to improve physical process representation and (2) diagnosing primary sources of error in models that limit performance and require improved process-understanding.  Submissions addressing interactions between different components of ESMs are particularly encouraged, such as – but not limited to – atmosphere-land-ocean-cryosphere interactions, as are advances facilitating scale-insensitive parameterization.

Primary Convener:  Aneesh Subramanian, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Eric D Maloney, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Marika M Holland, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, United States and Yi Ming, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
Chairs:  Eric D Maloney, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Aneesh Subramanian, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Marika M Holland, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, United States and Yi Ming, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Aneesh Subramanian, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3365 Subgrid-scale (SGS) parameterization [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Towards improved and more routine Earth system model evaluation in CMIP (Invited) (126240)
Axel Lauer, German Aerospace Center DLR Wessling - DLR, Wessling, Germany and Veronika Eyring, German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Making objective summaries of climate model behavior more accessible (Invited) (192609)
Peter J Gleckler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Convective transition statistics for climate model diagnostics (188485)
Yi-Hung Kuo1, J David Neelin1, Kathleen A. Schiro2, Baird Langenbrunner1, Katrina Hales1, Andrew Gettelman3, Chih-Chieh Chen4, Richard B Neale3, Yi Ming5, Eric D Maloney6 and Carlos R Mechoso7, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Process Oriented Diagnostics of Tropical Cyclones in Climate Models (163197)
Suzana J. Camargo1, Daehyun Kim2, Yumin Moon2, Adam H Sobel3, Allison A Wing3, Hiroyuki Murakami4, Kevin A Reed5, Enrico Scoccimarro6, Gabriel Andres Vecchi7, Michael F Wehner8, Colin M. Zarzycki9 and Ming Zhao10, (1)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (5)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (6)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, BOLOGNA, Italy, (7)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA/OAR/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
Parameterizations with and without Climate Process Teams (Invited) (175255)
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
A CPT for Improving Turbulence and Cloud Processes in the NCEP Global Models (Invited) (177448)
Steven K Krueger1, Shrinivas Moorthi2, Prof. David A Randall3, Robert Pincus4, Peter Bogenschutz5, Alexei Belochitski6, Minoru Chikira7, Donald A. Dazlich7, Dustin J Swales8, Prabhat Kumar Thakur1, Fanglin Yang9 and Anning Cheng10, (1)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)NOAA, OAR/GSL, Boulder, United States, (9)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, (10)NOAA/NWS/NCEP EMC, College Park, MD, United States
Improving the Representation of Estuarine Processes in Earth System Models (160526)
Qiang Sun, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, Michael M Whitney, University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, Frank Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States and Prof. Yu-heng Tseng, PhD, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Climate Process Team “Representing calving and iceberg dynamics in global climate models” (175863)
Olga V Sergienko, Princeton University, AOS, Princeton, United States, Alistair Adcroft, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, AK, United States, Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Robert Hallberg, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Leigh A Stearns, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Alon A Stern, New York University, New York, United States

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