Session: Climate Variability and Change Poster Session, Tuesday (97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

483

The Diurnal Cycle of Warm Season Rainfall over West Africa

Gang Zhang, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and K. H. Cook and E. K. Vizy

484

Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Simulations of Precipitation over Japan

Akihiko Murata, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan

485

Regional Climate Modeling of the Changes in Environmental Stability and Heavy Rainfall under Global Warming

Tetsuya Takemi, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan

Handout (1.0 MB)

486

Representation of Southern African Monsoon In A High Resolution AGCM and Its Future Projections

Jerry Raj, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and G. L. Stenchikov and H. K. Bangalath

487

The Effect on Simulated Ocean Climate of a Parameterization of Unbroken Wave-induced Mixing incorporated into the k-epsilon Mixing Scheme

Kevin J.E. Walsh, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and P. Govekar, A. V. Babanin, M. Ghantous, P. Spence, and E. Scoccimarro

488

What Would Happen to Superstorm Sandy under the Influence of a Substantially Warmer Sea Surface Temperature in a Future Climate?

William K. M. Lau, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. J. Shi, K. M. Kim, and W. K. Tao

489

More Frequent Intense and Long-Lived Storms Dominate the Trend in Central U.S. Rainfall

Zhe Feng, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. Y. R. Leung, S. Hagos, R. A. Houze Jr., C. Burleyson, and K. Balaguru

Handout (11.3 MB)

490

Analyzing Changes in Future Extreme Events in New England using A New Dynamically Downscaled High Resolution Climate Dataset

Muge Komurcu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and M. Huber

Poster 491 has been moved. Now Poster 79A

492

Updating a Climatology of Extreme Snowfall Events in the United States

Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, NC; and D. S. Arndt

493

Towards an Event Based Indicator for Monitoring Change in Extreme Precipitation in Support of the US National Climate Assessment

Paul Loikith, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and E. A. Slinskey and D. E. Waliser

494

Characterizing Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns and Associated Temperature and Precipitation Extremes over the Northwestern United States using Self Organizing Maps

Alex Sweeney, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and P. Loikith and B. Lintner

495

Impact of Climate Change on Winter Storm Moisture Transport over the Western United States

Kelsey M. Malloy, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Alexander, K. M. Mahoney, and M. Mueller

496

High Resolution Climate Model Simulations of Stabilized 1.5 and 2 Degree Warming Scenarios

Michael F. Wehner, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and D. Stone, J. Johnson, B. Loring, H. Krishnan, and T. O'Brien

497

Analyzing Large-Scale, Wintertime Extreme Warm Events using Self-Organizing Maps

Kirsten J Mayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin

498

Atmospheric Rivers and Enhanced Integrated Vapor Transport Probability Forecasts as seen during Frontal Passages in Southern California with an Emphasis on Strong Wind Episodes

Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA

Manuscript (586.3 kB)

Handout (788.0 kB)

499

Dynamical Analysis of Northeast US Extreme Precipitation Based on Tropopause Height Patterns

Laurie Agel, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and M. Barlow

500

The Role of Atmospheric Circulation on Rain-on-Snow Driven Ablation in the Eastern United States

Lori J. Wachowicz, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and T. L. Mote

501

WRF Modeling of Hurricane Norbert Record Rainfall with Monsoon Flooding in Arizona

Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Prescott, AZ; and J. White

502

Beyond the Mean: Trends in United State Convective Environments

John T. Allen, Central Michigan Univ., Mt Pleasant, MI; and C. Lepore and M. K. Tippett

503

Uncovering Potential Dynamical Pathways from Planetary Scales to Regional Extreme Weather Events

504

Colorado Front Range Windstorms in a Changing Climate

Seth Antozzi, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA; and J. J. Barsugli, J. M. Brown, and A. J. Ray

Handout (601.1 kB)

505

Characteristics of Heat Waves in Mesoamerica and Caribbean Region

Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez, J. M. Castro, M. E. Angeles, C. M. Salazar, E. W. Harmsen, and N. Hosannah

Handout (936.0 kB)

506

Numerical Modeling of a Heavy Rainfall Event in Present and Future Climates

John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and T. D. Allison and H. E. Fuelberg

Handout (6.6 MB)

507

Climate Change and Extreme Precipitation Events in the Iberian Peninsula

508

Sixty Years of Increasing Wind Storm Damages in European Forests

H Gregow, FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and A. Laaksonen

509

Assessing East Coast Blizzards Under Climate Change

Tyler Janoski, GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Handout (1.1 MB)

510

Present Simulation and Future Projection of Tropical Storm Activity Over the Western North Pacific in 20-km HiRAM and MRI Climate Models

Chih-Hua Tsou, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. Y. Tu, C. T. Chen, and T. P. Tzeng

511

Large-scale Controls on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity on Seasonal Time Scales

Young-Kwon Lim, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert, O. Reale, A. M. Molod, M. J. Suarez, and B. M. Auer

512

Seasonal and Annual Trends of Australian Minimum/Maximum Temperature during 1856-2014

William A. van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and A. Mouraviev

Manuscript (332.9 kB)

513

Impacts of Soil Moisture Variability Caused by Thawing and Snow Melting in Spring on Precipitation in Summerer

514

The Dependence of Cloud Property Trend Detection on Satellite Instrument Accuracy

Yolanda L. Shea, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, S. Sun-Mack, P. Minnis, and M. D. Zelinka

515

A Comparison of Daily Temperature Averaging Methodologies: Spatial Variability, Seasonal Patterns, and Related Climate Variables in the CONUS

Jase E. Bernhardt, Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY

516

Long-Term Daily Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Asia and Its Use for Climate Monitoring

Hirotaka Sato, JMA, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Kamiguchi, Y. Mochizuki, and A. Yatagai

Handout (2.2 MB)

517

Use of a Fourier Lockin CW Waveform for the ASCENDS Mission

Grant Matthews, Zedika Solutions LLC, Fort Wayne, IN

Handout (416.8 kB)

518

NOAA's State Climate Summaries for the National Climate Assessment: State-Level Trends in Temperature and Precipitation

Laura E. Stevens, CICS-NC, Asheville, NC; and S. M. Champion, K. E. Kunkel, R. Frankson, J. D. Runkle, B. C. Stewart, D. R. Easterling, L. Sun, J. Griffin, and S. Veasey

Handout (3.8 MB)

519

How Forest Cover and Climate Change Affect the Frequency and Distribution of Boundary Layer Cumulus Clouds in the Eastern United States—An Observational Analysis

Jeffrey M. Freedman, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald

520

Effects of Land Management Strategies on Northern Plains Energy Balance Climatology

Gabriel Bromley, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT; and T. Gerken, M. M. Morgan, and P. Stoy

521

Co-Occurrence of Extreme Temperature and Moisture over the Contiguous U.S

Colin Raymond, Columbia University, New York, NY; and D. Singh and R. M. Horton

522

Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis of Various Angular Momentum Waves

523

Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis of Rossby Haurwitz Angular Momentum Waves

Ernesto W. Findlay, SUNY, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Handout (8.6 MB) Handout (2.0 MB)

524

Formation Mechanism of a Western Hemisphere Circulation Pattern during Boreal Winter

Ming Bao, Nanjing Univeristy, Nanjing, China; and P. Ceppi, D. L. Hartmann, and X. Tan

525

Global and Synoptic-Scale Forcings on Extreme Snow Melt Runoff Events

Gina R. Henderson, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and J. L. Arthur, D. J. Leathers, D. A. Robinson, and T. Mote

526

Examining the Influence of East Asian Winter Monsoon Cold Surges on the Areal Extent of the Lower Tropospheric, Northern Hemisphere Wintertime Cold Pool

Simran K. Raju, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin

527

A Global View of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability over the Last 60 Years

Qinghua Ding, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

528

Using Empirical Orthogonal Function/Principal Component Analysis to Explore Wintertime Pacific Jet Variability

Maria Mercedes Madsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin

529

Revisiting Trends in the North Atlantic Subtropical High for the Southeast US Summer Climate and Climate Change

Jared H. Bowden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and T. L. Spero, K. D. Talgo, W. Li, C. G. Nolte, and A. Hanna

530

Link Between CERES Radiative Energy Flux and Southern Hemisphere Jet Stream Variability

Zoe A Brooke Zibton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

531

Quantitative Decomposition of Radiative and Non-Radiative Contributions to Temperature Anomalies Related to Siberian High Variability

Tae-Won Park, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. H. Jeong, Y. Deng, and M. Cai

Handout (2.6 MB)

532

Response of Winter Moisture Circulation to the India-Burma Trough and Its Modulation By the South Asian Waveguide

Xiuzhen Li, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China

533

Future Changes in Precipitation over East Asia Projected by the Global Atmospheric Model MRI-AGCM3.2

Shoji Kusunoki, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan

534

Assessment of Future Change in Extreme Precipitation Frequency Around Japan By Applying Statistical Downscaling Approach to CMIP5 Data

Kenji Oshio, JMA, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Ishihara and S. Wakamatsu

535

Impact of Horizontal Resolution of Topograpy on Surface Water Budget over the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Mountain Ranges using 60-km-mesh Global Atmospheric Model

Osamu Arakawa, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; and A. Kitoh and T. Ogata

536

High-Resolution Future Climate Projections over Contiguous United States

Jiali Wang, ANL, Lemont, IL; and V. R. Kotamarthi

537

A Study of the Relationship Between the Intraseasonal Variability and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in a GCM

Nirupam Karmakar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India; and A. Chakraborty and R. S. Nanjundiah

538

Climate Downscaling for Water Reservoir Impact Studies

I. C. Oliveira, IBM Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and A. B. Buoro and A. C. Nogueira Jr.

539

Climate Change Hazards: Extreme Precipitation and Flooding in Oklahoma's Tribal Nations

Kristina Mazur, NCEP Student Internship Program, Ocean Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and E. Mullens and D. H. Rosendahl

Handout (1.3 MB)

540

Defining Philippine Climate Zones Using Cluster Analysis

Irenea L. Corporal-Lodangco, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie

541

Analysis of Climate Variability over the Yakima Valley: The Weather As a Decision Support System

Melba Salazar-Gutierrez, Washington State University, Prosser, WA; and B. Chaves-Cordoba, S. Hill, and G. Grove

542

Snowfall Changes During the California Drought

Veronica Fall, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Martin, L. M. Leslie, and M. B. Richman

543

WRF GCM and Reanalysis-driven Dynamical Downscaling Evaluation of Present Day Climate Simulations over Bolivia

Azar Mohammad Abadi, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and R. Oglesby, C. M. Rowe, and R. Mawalagedara

544

Observed and CMIP5 Modeled Influence of Large-Scale Circulation on Summer Precipitation and Drought in the South-Central United States

Jung-Hee Ryu, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and K. Hayhoe

545

Southern Hemisphere Circulation Change from Paleoclimate (LGM) to Future (RCP4.5) Climate

Seo-Yeon Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. W. Son

546

Decadal Analysis of Future Extreme Climatic Conditions in Southern and Central European Regions

Judit Bartholy, Eotvos Lorand Univ., Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongracz, I. Pieczka, and K. Szabone Andre

Manuscript (3.5 MB)

547

Lightning Flash Rate in the Lower Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela Related to Sea Surface Temperatures and Tropospheric Airflow

Deirdre Smith, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and J. C. Trepanier and Á. Muñoz

548

CMIP5 Global Climate Model Performance Evaluation over the South-Central United States

Derek H. Rosendahl, South Central Climate Science Center, Norman, OK; and D. Rupp, R. McPherson, and B. Moore III

549

Impacts of ENSO on Tornado Frequency and Geographical Distribution in the Eastern United States

Coryn Collins, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Poster Session 2 Climate Variability and Change Poster Session, Tuesday