First Lorenz Center
Workshop
Water in the Climate System
February 10-12, 2014
MIT Endicott House
Dedham, Massachusetts
LINKS TO
PRESENTATIONS
(These are presented here in the order in which they appeared in the program).
1. Convection
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
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
2. Water Vapor, Clouds, and Climate
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
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
3. Moisture and Weather
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
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
4. Potpourri
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
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
5. Precipitation and Climate
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
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