Session 9 |
| | Climate Model Analysis and Improvement |
| | Cochairs: Sumant Nigam, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
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| 11:00 AM | 9.1 | Running a climate model in forecast mode to identify the source of tropical climate errors: With specific reference to the dry bias error over the Maritime Continent in an atmosphere only GCM  
Jane Strachan, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and P. M. Inness, J. M. Slingo, and G. M. Martin |
| 11:15 AM | 9.2 | The importance of tropical Pacific SST changes between the warm pool and the cold tongue
Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo |
| 11:30 AM | 9.3 | Attribution of atmospheric variations in the 1997-2003 period to SST anomalies in the Pacific and Indian Ocean basins
Ngar-Cheung Lau, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and A. Leetmaa and M. J. Nath |
| 11:45 AM | 9.4 | An Assessment of Future Caribbean Climate Changes using the BAU Scenario by Coupling a Global Circulation Model with a Regional Model
M.E. Angeles, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez, D. J. Erickson, and J. Hernández |
| 12:00 PM | 9.5 | Relative cooling of the N. Indian Ocean: Its relation to aerosols and Indian/sub-Saharan Africa rainfall trends
C. E. Chung, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan |
| 12:15 PM | | Lunch Break (Cash and Carry available in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM | 9.6 | Assimilating precipitation to improve simulations of the North American summer circulation
Ana M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. O. Roads and M. Kanamitsu |
| 1:45 PM | 9.7 | Dynamical amplification of polar warming
Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL |
| 2:00 PM | 9.8 | The response of extratropical precipitation and moisture transport to increased CO2.
David J. Lorenz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. DeWeaver |
| 2:15 PM | 9.9 | Climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Upper Mississippi River Basin as determined by an ensemble of GCMs
Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and M. Jha, C. J. Anderson, and P. W. Gassman |
| 2:30 PM | 9.10 | Potentially predictable components of African summer rainfall in SST-forced GCM simulations
Michael K. Tippett, Internation Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and A. Giannini |
| 2:45 PM | 9.11 | A Simple Conceptual Model of Lower Troposphere Stability and Marine Stratus and Stratocumulus Cloud Fraction
Yanping He, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. Dickinson |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle
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| 3:30 PM | 9.12 | How and why to upgrade cloud microphysics in climate models
Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville |
|  | 9.13 | Solar radiation budget derived by integrating ground-based and satellite observations with a Monte Carlo radiation model
Dohyeong Kim, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan, A. Ohmura, and E. G. Dutton |
| 3:45 PM | 9.14 | Future projection of precipitation extremes with 20km-mesh Atmospheric General Circulation Model
Kenji Kamiguchi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and A. Kitoh, T. Uchiyama, R. Mizuta, and A. Noda |
| 4:00 PM | 9.15 | Some considerations of climate feedback
J. Ray Bates, Univ. College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
| 4:15 PM | 9.16 | Difficulties in simulating the phase of diurnal water and energy cycles
A.C. Ruane, ECPC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads and M. Kanamitsu |