First Lorenz Center
Workshop
Water in the Climate System
February 10-12, 2014
Dedham, Massachusetts
Workshop Program (click here for pdf file)
Sunday,
February 9th
Afternoon: Check-in
6:00: Reception, Gun
Room
7:00: Dinner, Dining
Room
Monday,
February 10th
7:15 8:15: Breakfast, Dining Room
8:30 8:45: Introduction to the Lorenz Center and to
the Workshop Kerry Emanuel and Dan Rothman
1. Convection Chris Bretherton, Session Chair
8:45 9:45: Presentations
Some theoretical questions about convective parameterization Isaac Held
New developments
related to gross moist stability David Raymond
Can a bulk plume
represent the effect of aqueous-phase reactions in shallow cumuli? Ji Nie, Zhiming
Kuang, Daniel Jacob, and Jiahua Guo
9:45
10:15: Break
10:15 11:00: Presentations
Sensitivity of deep convection to free-tropospheric
humidity in a hierarchy of models Gilles Bellon
Large-scale
structures in moist atmospheric convection Alexandre
Pieri, Jost von Hardenberg, Antonio Parodi, and Antonello Provenzale
11:00 12:00: Discussion of Convection
12:15 1:30:
Lunch, Dining Room
2. Water Vapor, Clouds, and Climate John Marshall, Session Chair
2:00 3:00: Presentations
Radiative Convective Equilibrium (RCE) Bjorn Stevens
Radiative-Convective Instability Kerry Emanuel, Allison Wing, and Emmanuel Vincent
Self-Aggregation of
Convection in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Caroline Muller
3:00
3:30: Break
Water
Vapor, Clouds, and Climate continued
3:30
4:30 Presentations
Water vapor as an
active scalar
Adam Sobel
On the role of convective
aggregation in climate: observational and modeling perspectives Sandrine Bony
Stratospheric water
vapor and climate Ted Shepherd
4:30 5:30:
Discussion of Water Vapor, Clouds, and Climate
6:00: Reception, Gun Room
7:00: Dinner, Dining Room
Tuesday, February 11th
7:15 8:15: Breakfast, Dining Room
3. Moisture and Weather Sandrine Bony, Session Chair
8:45 9:45:
Presentations
A near-global CRM
study of moisture and tropical atmospheric predictability Chris Bretherton
and Marat Khairoutdinov
The Pliocene
Permanent El Nino and Atmospheric Superrotation Nathan Arnold and Eli Tziperman
Towards a theory for
free-tropospheric relative humidity David Romps
9:45
10:15: Break
10:15 11:00: Presentations
Weather
Regimes and a Stochastic/Deterministic Strategy for Ultra-High Resolution
Simulation of Earths Water Cycle Tim Palmer
The role of
mid-tropospheric humidity in tropical cyclone genesis and intensification Brian Soden, Eui-Seok Chung, and David Yeoman
11:00 12:00: Discussion of Moisture and Weather
12:15
1:30: Lunch, Dining Room
4. Potpourri Alan Betts, Session Chair
2:00 3:00: Presentations
Freshwater transport
in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a passive ocean John Marshall and
David Ferreira
Bistability of the
climate around the habitable zone: a thermodynamic investigation Valerio Lucarini, Robert Boschi, Edilbert Kirk,
Nicholas Iro, Frank Lunkeit, and Salvatore Pascale
The abrupt seasonal transition of
the Northern Hemisphere general circulation: mechanisms and future changes Tiffany Shaw
3:00
3:30: Break
Potpourri
continued
3:30 4:30: Presentations
Aridity and the
Branching of River Networks Dan Rothman
A symmetric energy
balance as a macroscopic constraint on Earths climate? Graeme Stephens
Regional feedback patterns and
regional climate predictability Gerard Roe
4:30 5:30:
Discussion of Potpourri
6:00: Reception, Gun Room
7:00: Dinner, Dining Room
Wednesday,
February 12th
7:30 8:30: Breakfast, Dining Room
5. Precipitation and Climate Bjorn Stevens, Session Chair
9:00 9:45:
Presentations
Contrasting responses
of mean and extreme snowfall to climate change Paul OGorman
Variability and
Change in Our Water: Some Results from
Climate Model Ensembles Susan Solomon, Ken Strzepek, and Brent Boehlert
9:45
10:15: Break
10:15 11:00: Presentations
Coupling Climate to Clouds, Land-use,
Precipitation and Snow Alan Betts
Rapid adjustments of
precipitation to climate forcings - are
they real and what can we learn from
them?
Piers Forster
11:00 12:00: Discussion of Precipitation and Climate
12:00 1:15:
Lunch, Dining Room
Workshop ends