A44A:
Constraining Climate Model Simulations and Predictions Using Observations II

Session ID#: 3166

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3006 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jonathan H Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Leo J. Donner, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Convener:  Hui Su, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Co-conveners:  Leo J. Donner, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jonathan H Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A44A-01
The tropospheric moisture and double-ITCZ biases in CMIP5 models (25065)
Dr. Baijun Tian, Ph.D., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
A44A-02
A-Train Observations in Extratropical Cyclones: A Comprehensive Tool for Model Evaluation (8637)
Catherine M Naud, Columbia University/NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, James F Booth, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, Derek J Posselt, University of California, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
A44A-03
Constraining cloud responses to CO2 and warming in climate models: physical and statistical approaches (Invited) (2284)
Steven C Sherwood, UNSW Sydney, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, David Fuchs, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, Australia, Sandrine Bony, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France and Dufresne Jean-Louis, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France
A44A-04
Predicting Shortwave Cloud Feedback in Models and Observations Based on the Seasonal Cycle of Liquid Water Path (31311)
Paulo Ceppi1, Daniel McCoy2 and Dennis L. Hartmann1, (1)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States
A44A-05
Observed relationship between Arctic sea ice, cloud, and solar radiation and its implication for ice-albedo feedback (21371)
Yong-Sang Choi1, Baek-Min Kim2, Sun-Kyong Hur3, Seong-Joong Kim4, Joo-Hong Kim5 and Chang-Hoi Ho3, (1)Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (3)Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Incheon, South Korea, (5)Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Ocean and Atmosphere Sciences, Incheon, South Korea
A44A-06
Confronting Climate Model Simulations with Satellite-Based Evaluation of Warm Rain Formation: Can We Reconcile “Bottom-up” Process-Based Constraints with the “Top-Down” Temperature Trend Constraints? (Invited) (4653)
Jean-Christophe Golaz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, Kentaroh Suzuki, The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Japan and Huan Guo, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
A44A-07
Climate Model Sensitivity to Moist Convection Parameter Perturbations (16346)
Diana N Bernstein and J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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