A108
Process-Oriented Analysis of Cloud and Precipitation Physics

Session ID#: 77543

Session Description:
Cloud and precipitation processes remain one of the largest uncertainties in weather and climate modeling, affecting estimates of both greenhouse-gas-driven climate change and aerosol forcing. Significant progress has been made in recent years in observations (satellite, in-situ and ground-based) and high-resolution modeling of these processes. In this session, we solicit presentations that advance process understanding of cloud and precipitation physics and their representation in weather and climate models using observations and high-resolution modeling. This includes innovative use of observations and high-resolution modeling to diagnose key aspects of physical processes; it also includes applying process-oriented analysis to evaluate, constrain and improve cloud and precipitation parameterizations. Presentations on how process-based constraints on model physics improve our understanding of climate feedback and aerosol forcing are encouraged. The use of satellite simulators as tools to make scale-aware and definition-aware comparisons of models and observations is welcomed.
Index Terms:

3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3333 Model calibration [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3354 Precipitation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Johannes Mulmenstadt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer E Kay, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Minghuai Wang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Primary Liaison:  Johannes Mulmenstadt, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany
 
A Stochastic Approach for Representing Uncertainty and Variability in Cloud Microphysical Parameters for use in Process-Oriented Studies (Invited) (489077)
Greg M McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Joe Finlon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Hugh Morrison, NCAR, MMM Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, McKenna Stanford, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Adam Varble, University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Robert Rauber, Univ Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Stephen W Nesbitt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, Saisai Ding, Peking University, Beijing, China and Wei WU, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, United States
 
Causes for the hitherto gross underestimation of the negative aerosol radiative forcing mediated by marine boundary layer clouds (493749)
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and Yannian Zhu, Meteorological Institute of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, China
 
Subgrid variations of the cloud water and droplet number concentration over the tropical ocean: satellite observations and implications for warm rain simulations in climate models (Invited) (493810)
Zhibo Zhang1, Hua Song1, Po-Lun Ma2, Minghuai Wang3, Vincent E Larson4, Xiquan Dong5 and Jianwu Wang6, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (4)Univ Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Information Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
The spiderweb structure of stratocumulus clouds (494084)
Georgios Matheou1, Anthony B Davis2 and Joao Teixeira2, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Modeling analysis on climatic impact of subgrid cloud inhomogeneity through precipitation and radiation processes (497782)
Haruka Hotta, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Daisuke Goto, NIES, JPN, Tsukuba, Japan and Matthew D Lebsock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
A new framework for evaluating clouds and their radiative effects in GCMs using space-based cloud and radiative flux observations (499700)
Dongmin Lee, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nayeong Cho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
A Process-Oriented Analysis of GCOM-C/SGLI for Quantifying the Response of Water Cloud Properties to Aerosols (504349)
Takashi M. Nagao and Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
 
Evaluation of modeled precipitation in oceanic extratropical cyclones using IMERG: Rain Rates, Occurrence, and Sensitivities (506492)
James F Booth, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Science, New York, NY, United States, Catherine M Naud, Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Jeyavinoth Jeyaratnam, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Ming Zhao, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Fall Characteristics of Freezing and Frozen Raindrops (506633)
Firat Y. Testik and Kalimur M. Rahman, University of Texas at San Antonio, Civil and Environmental Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Process-based insight into precipitation susceptibility to aerosols from global models and satellite observations (508837)
Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Daisuke Goto, NIES, JPN, Tsukuba, Japan and Takuro Michibata, RIAM Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kasuga, Japan
 
Prognostic Precipitation in the MIROC6-SPRINTARS GCM: Improvements in Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions (514256)
Takuro Michibata, RIAM Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kasuga, Japan, Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Miho Sekiguchi, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan and Toshihiko Takemura, Kyushu University, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Fukuoka, Japan
 
Improving comparisons between GCM output and precipitation radar observations (516914)
Emily M. Riley Dellaripa1, Aaron Brandon Funk2, Courtney Schumacher2, Hedanqiu Bai2, Thomas Spangehl3 and Eric D Maloney1, (1)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
 
As Cold Clouds Warm, Their Lifetime Increases: A Negative Feedback Underestimated in GCMs (517884)
Johannes Mulmenstadt1, Sabine Hörnig2, Jennifer E Kay3, Marc Salzmann2, Po-Lun Ma1 and Johannes Quaas4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany
 
Satellite data analysis of liquid cloud growth and decay processes over semi-arid regions with a combined use of CloudSat and geostationary data (530414)
Akira Yamauchi, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Nagareyama, Japan and Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
 
Evaluation of Cloud Properties in Three Climate Models Using MODIS Observations and its Corresponding COSP Simulator. (533635)
Giulia Saponaro1, Moa Sporre2, David Neubauer3, Harri Kokkola4, Pekka Kolmonen5, Larisa Sogacheva1, Antti T Arola1, Gerrit de Leeuw6, inger Helene Karset7, Ari Laaksonen1 and Ulrike Lohmann8, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, (5)Finnish Meteorological Institu, Helsinki, Finland, (6)Finish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (7)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (8)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Aerosol Invigoration of Precipitation in Warm Clouds and the Implications to Cloud Lifetime (534929)
Alyson Douglas, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States and Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Unexpected impacts of riming on hydrometeor density and fallspeed in Multi Angle Snowflake Camera measurements (540220)
Timothy J Garrett1, Kyle Fitch2, Ahmad Talaei2 and Karlie Rees3, (1)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Effect of Ice Habit on Modeled Predictions of Orographic Precipitation (549642)
Lucas Sterzinger, University of California Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States and Adele L Igel, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
 
Radiation Effect on Growth of Cloud/Mist Droplets: A Laboratory and Modeling Study (551191)
M Quinn Brewster and Xinchang Li, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Vertical Mixing in the Lower Troposphere: A Control on Global Mean Precipitation Rates (561514)
Jacob Hendrickson, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Mike S Pritchard, University California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Christopher Terai, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Process-oriented evaluation of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in climate models and its implication for cloud water response to aerosols (564221)
Minghuai Wang1, Zhoukun Liu1, Hao Wang1, Jihu Liu1 and Daniel Rosenfeld2, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Evaluation of cloud hydrometers from Korean Integrated Model (KIM) using multi reanalysis products and satellite observations (569881)
Akkisetti Madhulatha1, Rae Seol Park2, Jung-Yoon Kang, Tae-Hun Kim2 and Song-You Hong4, (1)Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, South Korea, (2)KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, South Korea, (3)KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Evaluation of cloud microphysics parameterizations during the ICEPOP field campaign in Korea (574109)
Kyo-Sun Lim, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, South Korea, Eun-Chul Chang, Kongju National University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea and Ruiyu Sun, NWS/NCEP/EMC/IMSG, College Park, MD, United States
 
A-Train estimates of the sensitivity of warm rain likelihood and efficiency to cloud size (584117)
Kevin Mitchell Smalley, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Anita D Rapp, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Gauging the boundary layer vs free tropospheric thermodynamic contributions to convective onset in GCMs using GNSS satellite radio occultation (RO) retrievals (610618)
Yi-Hung Kuo1, Ramon Padulles2, J David Neelin1, Joe Turk3, Manuel de la Torre-Juárez3, Chi O Ao4 and Svetla M Hristova-Veleva4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Microphysical structure of non-precipitating warm cumulus: adiabatic processes vs entrainment and mixing (616990)
Eshkol Eytan1, Alexander Khain2, Mark Pinsky3, Orit Altaratz1 and Ilan Koren1, (1)Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (2)Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
An efficient model development framework for an Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux cloud and precipitation parameterization with 20 free parameters (617055)
Mark Smalley1, Kay Suselj1, Matthew D Lebsock2 and Joao Teixeira1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
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