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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Review

This review discusses the development of high resolution atmospheric models for the IPCC's AR5, focusing on regional climate change, weather extremes, air quality, and cloud feedbacks. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory aims to contribute ambitiously to this component, in collaboration with the DOE, and hopes to generate several hundred years of simulations with a horizontal resolution of 25km. The improvement of winter mean precipitation in the Western U.S. with higher resolutions is highlighted.

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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Review

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  1. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Review June 30 - July 2, 2009

  2. Atmospheric Dynamics – Synthesis and Future Directions Presented by Isaac Held

  3. High resolution atmospheric models for AR5 The plan for CMIP5 (for the IPCC’s AR5) includes an atmosphere/land “time-slice” component for high resolution simulations of regional climate change, weather extremes, air quality, cloud feedbacks The lab has decided to contribute ambitiously to this component, in collaboration with DOE, which is offering substantial computer resources A horizontal resolution of 25km is reasonable given the size of these resources We hope to generate a total of ~500 yrs of simulations (several SST anomalies and several (3?) choices of model physics) 3

  4. Winter mean precipitation in Western U.S. improves dramatically with horizontal resolution 200 km 50 km PRISM observations 25 km 25 year global AMIP simulations

  5. High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling Plans • High resolution development branch will merge with AM3 trunk model, facilitating air quality/aerosol research (time-slices with 50km version possible for AR5) • Unified non-hydrostatic finite volume code with static/adaptive mesh refinement will be developed (in part with HFIP funding) to enable a new generation of research on extreme weather and regional climate change • Development of global “cloud resolving” model, initially at 5km resolution, will be actively pursued in collaboration with DOE • Will work with collaborators (and National Climate Service as it evolves) to add value to high resolution regional climate projections, through statistical refinement and impacts modeling

  6. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Review June 30 - July 2, 2009

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