PC42A:
High-Resolution Climate Modeling I
Session ID#: 92902
Session Description:
High-resolution (HR) climate simulations that either permit or explicitly resolve eddies in the oceans and tropical cyclones in the atmosphere have gained significant momentum over the last few years. Such HR simulations are necessary to assess and quantify the role of fine-scale ocean features, including fronts, eddies, and filaments, and their interactions with the atmosphere and sea-ice in climate variability and prediction. Specifically, improving our understanding of how multi-scale interactions arising from coupling the better resolved atmosphere and ocean models influence the low-frequency, large-scale behavior of the Earth system has important implications for advancing our predictions of the natural climate variability with important societal benefits. Despite progress, there are many challenges associated with HR climate modeling that include model evaluation, data volume and processing, computational performance, and model initialization. This session invites presentations on all aspects of HR climate modeling, including studies from field programs and coordinated HR modeling projects. Studies on observational data and metrics that can be used for evaluation of HR simulations and on efficient diagnostics tools for analysis of large data are particularly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Primary Chair: Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs: Ping Chang, Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States and Shaoqing Zhang, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Primary Liaison: Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Moderators: Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Ping Chang, Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Overview and Application of High-resolution CESM Simulations (642577)
Sun-Seon Lee1, Axel Timmermann2, Christian Wengel1 and Jung-Eun Chu3, (1)IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, (2)Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, South Korea, (3)City University of Hong Kong, School of Energy and Environment, Hong Kong, China
An Investigation of the Effect of Ocean Mesoscale Variability on the Dynamics of the North Pacific Jet Stream and Storm Track (647981)
Ramalingam Saravanan1, Istvan Szunyogh2, Eric Forinash3, Gyorgyi Gyarmati3, Yinglai Jia4 and Ping Chang5, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Science, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States, (4)Ocean University of China, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Qingdao, China, (5)Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, United States
High-Resolution Modeling of Arctic Climate Using the Regional Arctic System Model for Dynamical Downscaling of Global Climate Model Reanalyses and Projections (641925)
Prof. Wieslaw Maslowski, Ph.D.1, Robert Osinski2, Younjoo Lee1, Jaclyn L Clement Kinney3, Anthony Craig3, Mark W Seefeldt4, John J Cassano5 and Bart Nijssen6, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (3)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
The effect of increased resolution in the Energy, Exascale, Earth System Model (E3SM) (652204)
Luke P Van Roekel1, Mathew E Maltrud1, Milena Veneziani2, Andrew Roberts3, Peter V Caldwell4, David Bader5 and Azamat Mametjanov6, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Otto, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (6)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States
OM4: GFDL’s ¼ degree ice-ocean model component for CMIP6 (654059)
Alistair Adcroft1, John P Dunne2, Stephen Griffies3, Robert Hallberg4, Matt Harrison3, Malte Jansen5, Sonya Legg6, Brandon G Reichl4 and Rong Zhang7, (1)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NOAA Geophys Fluid Dynamic, Princeton, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (5)University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States
A New Ocean Model On The Uniform-Jacobian Cubic Grid (657835)
Francois Engelbrecht, University of the Witwatersrand, Global Change Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, John Leonard McGregor, Pedro M. S. Monteiro, School for Climate Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Nicolette Chang, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, NRE, Cape Town, South Africa
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Dynamics – Scale Interactions and Response to Greenhouse Warming in the ICCP High-Resolution CESM Simulation (649039)
Christian Wengel1, Malte F Stuecker2, Sun-Seon Lee3 and Axel Timmermann3, (1)IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, (2)IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan, South Korea, (3)Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, South Korea
