A54D:
Regional Climate Modeling III

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Session ID#: 16369

Session Description:
This session focuses on the state of the art in regional climate modeling on seasonal to centennial time scales. Contributions are solicited on coordinated experiments that focus on regional and high resolution global modeling such as CORDEX; novel approaches for model evaluation, especially process-oriented model verification; new developments such as coupled earth system modeling at regional scales and convection-permitting simulations; ensemble methods and uncertainty analyses; and assessing the added value of regional modeling. Results from use of regional models for process understanding and downscaling of IPCC climate change scenarios are also encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States and Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modelling tropical-like cyclones (medicanes) over the Mediterranean Sea in a regional climate model ensemble: impact of ocean-atmosphere coupling and increased resolution (155994)
Enrique Sanchez1, Miguel Angel Gaertner1, Juan Jesús González Alemán1, Raquel Romera1, Marta Domínguez1, Victoria Gil1, Clemente Gallardo1, Mario Miglietta2, Kevin J Walsh3, Dmitry Sein4, Samuel Somot5, Alessandro Dell'Aquila6, Claas Teichmann7, Bodo Ahrens8, Erasmo Buonomo9, Augustin Colette10, Sophie Bastin11, Erik van Meijgaard12 and Grigory Nikulin13, (1)UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha), Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, Spain, (2)ISAC/CNR, Lecce, Italy, (3)University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences, Parkville, Australia, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France, (6)ENEA National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy, (7)Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Hamburg, Germany, (8)University of Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany, (9)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (10)INERIS, Verneuil-en-Halatte, France, (11)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (12)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (13)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Rossby Centre, Norrköping, Sweden
Regional Climate Model Evaluation of the Mesoamerican Rainy Season and Mid-Summer Drought (134895)
Danielle Groenen, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Vasubandhu Misra, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States, Hugo Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Regional Climate Modeling of Vegetation Feedbacks on the Asian-Australian Monsoon Systems (141550)
Michael Notaro1, Guangshan Chen2, Yan Yu2, Fuyao Wang1, Ahmed Bayoumy Tawfik3 and Reto Stoeckli4, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)MeteoSwiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland
A New Paradigm of Reginal Climate Modeling Accounting for the Role of Oceans: Amazon as a Case Study (178463)
Amir Erfanian, University of Connecticut, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States and Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
Effects of wintertime atmospheric river landfalls on surface air temperatures in the Western US: Analyses and model evaluation (152721)
Jinwon Kim1, Bin Guan2, Duane Edward Waliser3 and Robert Ferraro3, (1)Korean Meteorological Administration, Seoguipo, South Korea, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Characterization of climate model errors over North America using the NARCCAP RCM, CMIP5-AMIP and Transpose-AMIP experiments (181334)
Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island, Department of Geoscience, Narragansett, RI, United States and Raymond S Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Snow Water Equivalent in NARCCAP and NA-CORDEX Simulations Including Measures of Observational Uncertainty (187349)
Rachel Rose McCrary, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Assessing uncertainty and sensitivity of model parameterizations and parameters in WRF affecting simulated surface fluxes and land-atmosphere coupling over the Amazon region  (138888)
Yun Qian1, Chen Wang2, Maoyi Huang1, Larry K Berg1, Qingyun Duan3, Zhe Feng4, ManishKumar Shrivastava5, Hyeyum Hailey Shin6 and Song-You Hong7, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (3)Hohai University, Nanjing, China, (4)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)NOAA, GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)University of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States

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