87th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 2A: Model Diagnostic Studies - General

Monday, 15 January 2007: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
214B (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Chair:  Gerald L. Potter, LLNL
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Wide band power and harmonic amplitude of precipitation
A.C. Ruane, ECPC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA; and J. O. Roads

  2:00 PM
Influence of surface water on US regional climate forecasts
A. M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads

  2:15 PM
Evaluation of cloud-radiation interaction within a single column model and regional climate modeling frameworks
Suryun Ham, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Seoul, South Korea; and H. Park and S. Y. Hong

  2:30 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  4:00 PM
Identifying climate model deficiencies in simulating tropical intraseasonal variability: application of weather-forecasting and single-column-modeling methodologies
Gerald L. Potter, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. S. Boyle, S. A. Klein, S. Xie, J. J. Hnilo, D. L. Williamson, J. Olson, R. Pincus, X. Wei, and G. Zhang

  4:15 PM
  4:30 PM
Impact of drifted basic states on the simulated tropical intraseasonal variability in a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM
Harun Ar Rashid, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and O. Alves and H. Hendon

  4:45 PM
  5:00 PM
The impact of the boundary layer parameterization on the weather and climate of the GEOS-5 model
Caterina M. Tassone, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. T. Bacmeister and L. L. Takacs

  5:15 PM
Why simulating the ITCZ in GCMs is so difficult
Winston Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez, J. T. Bacmeister, B. Chen, and L. L. Takacs