83rd Annual

Session 13: Climate Change Modeling: II

Thursday, 13 February 2003: 1:30 PM-5:15 PM
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Sensitivities of a high-resolution coupled GCM in a CO2 doubling experiment
Keiko Takahashi, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; and W. Ohfuchi, N. Komori, H. Nakamura, H. Sakuma, and T. Sato

  2:00 PM
Can the CCM3 Global Climate Model Accurately Simulate the Arctic Oscillation?
Raymond Mooring, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Poster PDF (259.9 kB)
  2:15 PM
A 12-year (1987–1998) ensemble simulation of the U.S. climate with a variable-resolution stretched-grid GCM
Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. L. Takacs and R. C. Govindaraju

  2:30 PM
Impact of increased CO2 levels on interannual tropical variability
Antonio Navarra, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy; and C. Annalisa

  2:45 PM
Interactions among cloud, water vapor, radiation and large-scale circulation in the tropical climate
Kristin Larson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. L. Hartmann

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~klarson/interaction.html

Poster PDF (136.7 kB)
  3:00 PM
Runoff sensitivity to climate warming: a process study with a coupled climate-runoff model
Jan Kleinn, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Frei, J. Gurtz, P. L. Vidale, and C. Schär

Poster PDF (662.9 kB)
  3:15 PM
Evaluating the A1 scenario in the CCSM for West Africa: 20th and 21st century climates
Gregory S. Jenkins, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and E. M. Blaisdell

  3:30 PM
Changes in thermohaline circulation in future climate
Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Meehl, W. Washington, and A. Dai

Poster PDF (641.7 kB)
  3:45 PM
The simulated impact of surface albedo feedback on climate variability
Alex Hall, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

  4:00 PM
Analysis of GCM predicted precipitation recycling over large basins
E. F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. Sheffield

  4:15 PM
Quasi-periodic natural variations in the Thermohaline Circulation and climate in a 1400 year coupled model calculation
Jeff R. Knight, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and R. J. Allan, C. K. Folland, and M. Vellinga

  4:30 PM
A dynamically interactive column physics model suitable for diagnosing GCM errors and climate variability
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bergman

  4:45 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:00 p.m.)