GEWEX Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop

Welcome

by Roy Rasmussen, Graeme Stephens, and James Hurrell (NCAR Director)

Invited Talks

• Christoph Schaer: Challenges in Convection-Resolving Climate Modeling   PDF

• Roy Rasmussen: Changes in the Western U.S. snowpack with a CONUS-scale convection-permitting climate model    PDF

• Bill Skamarock: Variable-resolution global atmospheric modeling spanning convective to planetary scales   PDF

• Graeme Stephens: Satellite observations   PDF

• Gary M. Lackmann: High-Resolution Numerical Studies of Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change   PDF

• Stefan Sobolowski: CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study: Convective phenomena at high resolution over Europe and the Mediterranean   PDF

Model Evaluation

• Prein: Simulating convective storms: An object based evaluation of a continental-scale convection permitting climate simulation   PDF

• Trier: Influences of PBL Parameterizations on Warm-Season Convection-Allowing Simulations   PDF

• Chaboureau: Object approaches for exploring high-resolution simulations   PDF

• Cook: Improved Simulation of the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation with Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling

• Iguchi: Precipitation Variability and Diurnal Cycle of Convection-Permitting Deterministic Simulations versus Mesoscale Multi-Physics Ensemble Simulations   PDF

• Mahoney: The role of “gray zone” convective model physics in high-resolution simulations of the 2013 Colorado Front Range Flood   PDF

Climate change assessments

• Dai: Changes in Precipitation Characteristics over North America by the Late 21st Century Simulated by a Convection-Permitting Model

• Di Luca: Using convection permitting simulations to study the intensity of extreme East Coast Lows   PDF

• Hoogewind: The Impact of Climate Change on Severe Convective Storms in the United States: Insight from High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling   PDF

• K. Rasmussen: High-resolution regional climate simulations of warm season convection in the United States    PDF

• Ban: Scaling and Intensification of Extreme Precipitation in Climate Change Simulations at Kilometer-Scale Resolution

• Kawase: Challenges of convection-permitting regional climate simulations in Japan   PDF

• Gutmann: Internal Variability and Convection Permitting Regional Climate Simulations   PDF

Panel Discussion

Approaches to CPCSs

CPM grid spacing

• Fosser: Impact of different convection permitting resolutions on the representation of heavy rainfall over the UK   PDF

• Noda: Resolution dependency of clouds and precipitation derived from 14-kilometre- to sub-kilometer-mesh nonhydrostatic global simulations

Land-Atmosphere interactions

• Flores: The Accidental Climate Modeler: The Increasingly Important Role of Land-Atmosphere Models for High Resolution Ecohydrologic Process Study    PDF

• Goergen: Added value and land-atmosphere coupling in convection-permitting WRF climate simulations over a Middle European domain

• Letcher: Dynamic and non-local responses to the snow albedo feedback over the Colorado Rocky Mountains   PDF

• Minder: Diagnosing and evaluating the snow-albedo feedback over complex terrain in high-resolution regional climate change simulations

Observational Datasets and global CPM efforts

• Newman: Development of Gridded Ensemble Precipitation and Temperature Datasets over the Entire 50 United States   PDF

• Ekstrom: Understanding changes in short-duration rainfall extremes under global warming: The GEWEX cross-cut on sub-daily rainfall extremes (INTENSE)   PDF

• Malardel: Is the ECMWF model ready for convection-permitting modeling?   PDF

Tropical Climate

• Weber: Why Convection-Allowing NWP is Needed: An Evaluation of CFSv2/GFS Tropical Convection on Subseasonal Time Scales   PDF

• Nolan: Comparisons of Parameterized versus Explicit Convection in Global-Scale Simulations Using the WRF Model in Aquachannel and Aquapatch Configurations

• Ruppert: Tropical Climate Forcing by the Diurnal Cycle of Convective Clouds   PDF

• Moncrieff: Simulation and Parameterization of Organized Tropical Convection   PDF

• Wang: Cloud, microphysics, radiation and dynamics – lessons from cloud-permitting simulations of the DYNAMO MJO events

• Chen-Using 4-km WRF CONUS simulations to diagnose surface coupling strength.pdf
• Eghdami_Analysis_of_vertical_scaling_of_horizontal_wind_kinetic_energy_spectra.pdf
• Ekstrom_AreConvectivePermittingSimulationsMeaningfulForIVAWorkOnWatershedScale.pdf
• Goergen_et_al.GEWEX_CPCM_workshop.WRF_pEU3km_impl_at_JSC_poster121.v2016-09-04_05f_KGo.pdf
• Havenga_South-AfricansMostDevstatingHailstormsAnSynopticScaleunderstandingOfEvents.pdf
• heinzeller_aerosol-aware_convection_resolving_climate_modelling.pdf
• Kollet_at_al.GEWEX-CPCM-WS_2016_final_330ppi.pdf
• Marinier_case_study_IP_WRF_PGW.pdf
• Martynov_Simulations_of_hailstorms_over_Switzerland_in_a_warmer_climate.pdf
• Matilla_Exploring GEOS-5 Nature Run Deep Convection Events via a Statistically Driven Case Finding System.pdf
• Michaelis_Introducing_the_MultiScale_KainFritsch_Scheme_to_the_MPAS.pdf
• Michaelis_Representation_of_the_Extratropical_Transition_of_Tropical_Cyclones_using_Global_Models.pdf
• Monaghan_USACE_AK_GEWEX_poster_v1.pdf
• Nie_Impact of Anthropogenic Heat on Summertime Rainfall in Beijing.pdf
• Scaff_Verification_of_Summer_Precipitation_in_a_continental_scale_with_WRF_4km.pdf
• Tawfik_Dynamic-scale-awareness.pdf
• Trapp-psgw-GWEX-2016.pdf
• wang_The Remote Effect of the Tibetan Plateau on downstream flow in early summer-1.pdf