A11N:
Weather and Climate in High Mountains: Observations and Modeling Posters

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Session ID#: 12943

Session Description:
High Mountains are recognized for their significant role in the climate system and implication for global hydrological cycles. They influence physical and dynamical processes from the boundary layer to the stratosphere, and are of primary importance for the future of water resources in large areas of our planet.  Observing and modeling weather and climate in High Mountain’s complex terrain is recognizably challenging and requires multiple approaches and techniques. With the rapid warming of the planet, the fate of water resources and the ability to mitigating hazards for large populations in developing countries may depend on the development and improvement of observational methods and modeling approaches. This session invites researchers interested in presenting the progress of studies investigating weather and climate variation and change on a broad range of temporal scales in High Mountain areas using observational data, atmospheric modeling, and remote sensing techniques.
Primary Convener:  Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
Convener:  Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
Chairs:  Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

To Catch a Cloud - Multiscale Precipitation Processes in the Andes and in the Himalayas (Invited) (119962)
Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, Masih Eghdami, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Yajuan Duan, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States and Anna Maria Wilson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States
Orographic Barriers, Rainshadows, and Earth Surface Processes in the Central Andes (Invited) (125055)
Bodo Bookhagen, University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Manfred R Strecker, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Changes in South American Low-level jet during summer (126590)
Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, Tessa Montini, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
Multi-resolution modeling of snow-dominated basins (141801)
Elisabeth Baldo, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Steven A Margulis, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Examining Dynamical Processes of Tropical Mountain Hydroclimate, Particularly During the Wet Season, Through Integration of Autonomous Sensor Observations and Climate Modeling (144768)
Robert Ake Hellstrom, Bridgewater State University, Geography, Bridgewater, MA, United States, Alfonso Fernandez, Universidad de Concepción, Geography, Concepción, Chile, Bryan G Mark, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Jason Michael Covert, University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, United States
The South American Low-Level Jet: A New Climatology, Variability, and Changes (145462)
Tessa Montini, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
Effects of Topographic Smoothing on the Simulation of Winter Precipitation in High Asia (151942)
Forest Cannon1, Leila V Carvalho2, Charles Jones3, Jesse Norris1, George N Kiladis4 and Bodo Bookhagen5, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
The mountain-plain circulation of the Central Andes and the aridity of the Atacama Desert (160557)
Joseph Galewsky, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
A quantitative study on the mass elevation effect of the Rocky Mountains and its significance for treeline distribution (172325)
Jing WANG and Baiping Zhang, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
MJO-ENSO Influence on Extreme Rainfall over the Peruvian Andes (188002)
Haline Heidinger, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States and Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
Evaluating Precipitation Elevation Gradients in the Alaska Range using Ice Core and Alpine Weather Station Records (189880)
Erin McConnell1, Erich C Osterberg2, Dominic Winski2, Karl J Kreutz3, Cameron P Wake4, Seth W Campbell5, David G Ferris Mr.6 and Sean D Birkel5, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, (3)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (4)University of New England, Biddeford, United States, (5)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, United States, (6)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States
Exploration of relative skill of individual CORDEX South Asia domain experiments (GCM/RCM combinations) for spatiotemporal simulation of temperature and precipitation over the Karakoram sub-region (190978)
Nathan Daniel Forsythe1, Hayley J Fowler2 and David Pritchard1, (1)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
A 35-year dataset of WRF downscaling over High Asia describing precipitation and temperature trends associated with glacier retreat/advance over the Himalaya and Karakoram (193421)
Jesse Norris1, Leila V Carvalho2, Charles Jones3 and Forest Cannon1, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
Analysis and Comparison of the Temperature and Snowfall Conditions for the Winters of 2014/15 and 2015/16 at Three Ski Resorts in British Columbia, Canada (194638)
Michael Josef Pidwirny and Shane Pedersen, Univ of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada

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