GC13C:
Climate Extremes: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Attribution III


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Session ID#: 58897

Session Description:
Extreme water cycle events such as droughts and floods represent the greatest impacts of climate variability and change on the coupled energy-water-land systems, and consequently on our environment and society. Thus, understanding and predicting single and compound extreme events related to the water cycle is critical for securing water, energy, and food supply and for effective decision-making. However, this presents significant scientific challenges due to gaps in mechanistic understanding, limitations in modeling approaches, and lack of observations. This session invites contributions that advance understanding of water cycle extremes from weather to climate timescales and/or their impacts on the coupled energy-water-land systems, including theoretical research, data analysis, numerical modeling, and/or data-model integration. This session also welcomes studies in relevant areas such as convection processes and modeling, impacts of climate variability and change on water cycle extremes, surface/subsurface water interactions, managed and unmanaged ecosystems, and environmental and societal impacts of extreme events.
Primary Convener:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States; U.S. Geological Survey EROS Center / FEWS NET, Sioux Falls, United States
Conveners:  Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Stephanie Herring, NOAA Boulder, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Chairs:  Stephanie Herring, NOAA Boulder, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States, Andrew Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Daniel Mitchell, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom and Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

An Increase in Tropical Cyclone Intensification (355793)
Kieran Thomas Bhatia, BP, London, United Kingdom; Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Gabriel A Vecchi, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Thomas R Knutson, NOAA/ Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Hiroyuki Murakami, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Keith W Dixon, NOAA, Princeton, United States and James Kossin, NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information, Madison, United States
Detecting climate change impacts on North Atlantic hurricane precipitation and size in a high-resolution climate model (452826)
Kevin A Reed, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, Alyssa M Stansfield, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Colin M. Zarzycki, Penn State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, State College, United States, Michael F Wehner, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Paul Aaron Ullrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PCMDI, Livermore, CA, United States
Future hottest day per year poses a humid-heat stress risk despite being amplified by land surface drying (362947)
Ethan Coffel1, Justin S Mankin1, Jonathan Winter2 and Radley M Horton3, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Columbia University, Climate School, New York, United States
Ocean temperature extremes driven by an enhanced seasonal cycle- A role for ocean yellowing? (351709)
Anand Gnanadesikan, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Grace Kim, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Marie-Aude Sabine Pradal, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, United States
Quantifying the historical intensity and spatial extent of extreme tropical cyclone precipitation (445748)
Dr. Danielle E Touma, PhD, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Daniel E Horton, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Suzana J. Camargo, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States; Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States
Revisiting European heat waves of the last 30 years with a physically consistent groundwater-to-atmosphere regional terrestrial system model (362784)
Carina Furusho-Percot1, Klaus Goergen2, Bibi S Naz3, Wendy Katherine Sharples4, Jessica Keune5, Ketan Kulkarni6 and Stefan J Kollet3, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (Agrosphere, IBG-3), Jülich, Germany, (2)Research Center Juelich, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich, Germany, (3)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Juelich, Germany, (4)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, (5)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, (6)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Juelich, Germany
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Heat Waves Across the United States (387073)
David Keellings, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
The relationship between ocean temperature extremes and coral bleaching, as documented by a new global coral bleaching database (414505)
Simon D Donner1, Alex Tso2 and Gregory JM Rickbeil2, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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