A34D:
Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather: Theory, Modeling, and Observations III


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Session ID#: 58229

Session Description:
There is a growing need to understand how extreme weather phenomena will change in the future under climate change. Such a goal requires insight into how such phenomena, including but not limited to severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and extreme precipitation,  emerge within the climate system in general. This session seeks novel research bridging the gap between climate and extreme weather with an emphasis on understanding both the underlying climate physics that generate such events and the mechanisms by which their statistics vary across climate states, including global warming. Analyses employing a wide range of methodologies are welcome, including idealized and high-resolution climate modeling, observational and historical data analysis, and theory.
Primary Convener:  Daniel Robert Chavas, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Convener:  Kevin A Reed, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel Robert Chavas, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Chairs:  Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Daniel Robert Chavas, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kevin A Reed, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4301 Atmospheric [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Oceanic and Atmospheric Controls on Tropical Cyclone Activity (Invited) (376819)
Christina M Patricola, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Ping Chang, Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, United States and Ramalingam Saravanan, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
On the imprint of volcanic eruptions on tropical cyclone activity (422220)
Francesco S.R. Pausata, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and Suzana J. Camargo, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Empty nesting: Where do you need high resolution to accurately simulate Atlantic hurricane impacts in climate models? (412374)
Colin M. Zarzycki, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Characterizing the Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Outbreaks in the Western United States (360176)
Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov1, Paul C Loikith2, Duane Edward Waliser3, Hugo Lee3 and John T Abatzoglou4, (1)University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Portland State University, Geography, Portland, OR, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Responses of hail and storm days to climate changes in the Tibetan Plateau (417523)
Tian Zou1,2, Qinghong Zhang1 and Wenhong Li3, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (3)Duke Univ-Nicholas School, Durham, United States
Increasingly powerful tornadoes (411488)
James Elsner, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Observed changes in temperature extremes and their relation to non-Gaussian warm-side tails (399419)
Jacob Sheldon Hunter, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, Paul C Loikith, Portland State University, Geography, Portland, OR, United States and J David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Warming Warms the Warmest Worst (425204)
Suqin Duan, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and David M Romps, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

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