Dates: 13–17 December 2021
Location: Online and in New Orleans, LA, USA (hybrid event)
Abstract Submission Deadline: 4 August 2021
This special edition of the e-news features AGU Fall Meeting sessions that touch on GEWEX research themes. Below you’ll find a list of sessions convened by GEWEX working groups, followed by sessions that are of interest to the GEWEX community. Sessions are listed by section number. The list is available in greater detail at https://www.gewex.org/resources/calls-for-papers/#AGU.
- A037. CMIP6 Climate Model Evaluation
Conveners: Baijun Tian (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Shaocheng Xie (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab), Ming Zhao (NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), Brian Medeiros (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
This session aims to bring together scientists who work in the Obs4MIPs, the COSP, and the CMIP6 climate models for their latest results.
- A039. Convection Processes and Their Environmental and Aerosol Interactions: Theory, Observation, and Modeling
Conveners: Dié Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Michael P Jensen (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Andreas F Prein (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Yunyan Zhang (Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab)
The session invites theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that advance the process-level understanding of convection and its representation in models.
- A054. Extreme Precipitation in Past, Present, and Future Climates
Conveners: Markus Donat (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Erich M Fischer (ETH Zurich), Andreas F Prein (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Angie Pendergrass (Cornell University)
This session will focus on precipitation extremes, including their driving dynamic and thermodynamic processes, external drivers, impacts, statistical properties, and changes in their occurrence related to climate variability and climate change.
- A060. General Session: Atmospheric Dynamics & Climate
Conveners: L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest Nat’l Laboratory), James W Hurrell (Colorado State University), Cecilia M Bitz (University of Washington)
Papers on all physical processes within Earth’s atmosphere and climate are encouraged, including global and regional-scale circulation, convection and its interactions with circulation, tropical and extratropical cyclones, variability from subseasonal-to-decadal time scales, and longer-term climate change.
- A065. High resolution Earth system modeling on large supercomputers
Conveners: L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest Nat’l Laboratory), Malcolm J Roberts (Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change), Pier Luigi Vidale (University of Reading), Gokhan Danabasoglu (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
With submissions particularly encouraged on ~10 km and ultra-high (order km) scales, this session welcomes contributions on development of parameterizations to improve model components and the coupled system at these resolutions.
- A073. Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications
Conveners: Ping Yang (Texas A&M University College Station), Lazaros Oreopoulos (NASA GSFC)
This session provides a forum for the presentation of recent advances in electromagnetic scattering, such as the scattering properties of nonspherical aerosol particles and ice crystals, 3-D radiative transfer, vector radiative transfer simulations, fast radiative transfer models for the interpretation of hyperspectral measurements, and the applications of fundamental light scattering and radiative transfer theories in active and passive remote sensing applications and in climate
science.
- A086. Numerical coupling of atmospheric processes in current and future models: Challenges and paths forward
Conveners: Hui Wan (Pacific Northwest Nat’l Laboratory), Sean Patrick Santos (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University), Ben J Shipway (United Kingdom Met Office)
This session discusses process coupling in weather and climate models, with an emphasis on addressing computational and numerical concerns.
- A089. Process-based Testing and Evaluation of Weather and Climate Models
Conveners: Weiwei Li (National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center), Michael B Ek (National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center), Lulin Xue (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Stan Benjamin (NOAA Global Systems Laboratory)
This session aims to bring together scientists who work on a variety of numerical models (weather/climate, regional/global, coupled/uncoupled, deterministic/ensemble, etc.). It will focus on: 1) T&E of model physics, their interactions, and impacts on the overall performance of a model, and 2) applying process-based T&E to advance understanding of physical processes.
- A090. Process-level Understanding of Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions and Their Parameterizations in Weather and Climate
Models
Conveners: Seoung Soo Lee (University of Maryland College Park), Vaughan T Phillips (Lund University), Kentaroh Suzuki (University of Tokyo), Hyungjun Kim (University of Tokyo)
This session invites all theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies of cloud-aerosol-precipitation interactions (CAPI) that advance the process-level understanding of CAPI mechanisms using either the traditional microphysical approach or the more recent approach involving those microphysical and dynamical feedbacks.
- A091. Process-Oriented Analysis of Cloud and Precipitation Physics
Conveners: Jennifer E Kay (University of Colorado at Boulder), Kentaroh Suzuki (University of Tokyo), Minghuai Wang (Nanjing University), Florent Brient (LMD/IPSL)
In this session, organizers solicit presentations that advance process understanding of cloud and precipitation physics and their representation in weather and climate models using observations and modeling.
- A092. Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation, and Application
Conveners: Jan Dominik Keller (Deutscher Wetterdienst), Michael G Bosilovich (Earth Sciences Division, NASA), Masatomo Fujiwara (Hokkaido University)
The session invites contributions on new developments, evaluation, and intercomparison (especially with respect to energy, water or carbon cycle) as well as applications of reanalyses.
- A093. Regional climate: modeling, analysis, and impacts
Conveners: Paul Aaron Ullrich (University of California Davis), Melissa S Bukovsky (National Center for Atmospheric Research), L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest Nat’l Laboratory)
This session focuses on the state of the art in modeling and analysis of regional climate and regional climate impacts on subseasonal-to-multidecadal timescales.
- B042. Improving Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions through Integration of Surface Layer, Atmospheric Composition, and Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Measurements
Conveners: Manuel Helbig (Dalhousie University), Celia Faiola (University of California Irvine), Ana Maria Yáñez-Serrano (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Volker Wulfmeyer (University of Hohenheim)
This session investigates how integration of soil, vegetation, surface flux, atmospheric composition and ABL measurements can 1) improve our understanding of land-atmosphere interactions, feedbacks, and coupling; 2) foster new cross-disciplinary collaborations between atmospheric and surface flux scientists; and 3) open up forward-thinking avenues for integrated cutting-edge research.
- GC013. Advancing Research on the Hydro-climate of South America
Conveners: Roy Rasmussen (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Monica Ainhorn Morrison (Indiana University Bloomington), Maria Laura Bettolli (University of Buenos Aires)
This session invites abstracts on the South American hydro-climate, including studies using the newly performed Convective Permitting Climate Model simulations created with the Weather, Research and Forecasting (WRF) modeling system to investigate the mesoscale factors impacting the hydro-climate for typical and extreme events in South America.
- GC084. The Flows of Energy Through the Climate System
Conveners: Maria Zita Hakuba (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Lijing Cheng (Institute of Atmospheric Physics), Martin Wild (ETH Zurich), Karina von Schuckmann (Mercator Ocean)
This session concerns various aspects of Earth’s energy budget and the variability in its radiative and non-radiative components, as well as the processes yielding such changes and their implications on multiple time and spatial scales.
- H021. Advancing Land Surface Models for Hydrological and Environmental Applications
Conveners: Bailing Li (NASA GSFC), Jifu Yin (NOAA College Park), Sujay V Kumar (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Guo-Yue Niu (University of Arizona)
This session will highlight the latest developments in land surface models (LSMs), diagnosis techniques and datasets.
- H032. Atmospheric water resources: remote sensing, AI, mechanisms, and technologies
Conveners: Haiyun Shi (Southern University of Science and Technology), Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi (University of Virginia), Qingyun Duan (Hohai University), Ji Chen (University of Hong Kong)
It is valuable to explore non-traditional water resources (e.g., atmospheric water resources, AWR), and some related challenges and issues are: (1) spatial-temporal evolution of AWR based on multi-source data; (2) variation features of AWR at different atmospheric levels; (3) physical mechanisms, effectiveness, and development potential of AWR utilization; and (4) key technologies of AWR utilization. Conveners welcome all contributions that address the supplementary and complementary role of
each of these challenges.
- H037. Characterizing human management features with remote sensing Conveners: Sujay V Kumar (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center),
Manuela Girotto (University of California Berkeley)
This session solicits innovative contributions on remote sensing approaches focused on capturing the impact of human footprint on the terrestrial water cycle.
- H049. Essential Water Variables (EWVs) observations and applications for research, water resources management, and operational decision
support
Conveners: Sushel Unninayar (NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University), George John Huffman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Dalia Kirschbaum (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Jared Keith Entin (NASA HQ–SMD)
Papers are invited that demonstrate the use of priority EWVs in critical water research, operational water resources management and prediction/mitigation of impacts of water cycle extremes, or that identify existing deficiencies and necessary improvements in observing, data exchange and modeling systems.
- H052. Flood Analytics, Operational Forecasting, and Adaptive Flood Management for an Uncertain Future: Challenges and Innovations
Conveners: Vidya Samadi (Clemson University), Ibrahim Demir (University of Iowa), Meghna Babbar-Sebens (Oregon State University)
This interactive session aims to bridge the gap between science, engineering, and practice in the modeling and operational forecasting of flooding events, techniques for flood warning and communication, and system analysis approaches for adaptive management of flood risks in an uncertain and changing world.
- H062. Hydroinformatics: Computational Intelligence, Sensing, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Scientific Computing
Conveners: Vidya Samadi (Clemson University), Ibrahim Demir (University of Iowa), Branko Kerkez (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Gerald Corzo Perez (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education)
The goal of this session is to provide an active forum to discuss scientific ideas and technical solutions to the advancement of (i) predictive and analytical models based on computational intelligence, machine learning, and data science, (ii) workflow automation techniques through the use of modern computing, crowdsourced data, sensing, and web services, (iii) methods for the analysis of big datasets, including
remote sensing, time series, and synthetic/real-time monitoring data, and (iv) Artificial Intelligence in digital analysis and natural language processing for water resources decision making.
- H065. Integrated soil modeling
Conveners: Dani Or (ETH Zurich), Michael Young (University of Texas at Austin)
This session will focus on computational and mathematical soil models that address integration of multiple soil processes across scales; approaches for providing data and parameters and upscaling strategies for application of such models to address contemporary climatic, agronomic and hydrologic issues.
- H068. Land-Atmosphere Interactions: From Bedrock to Boundary Layer
Conveners: Kaighin A Mccoll (Harvard University), Yunyan Zhang (Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab), Joseph A Santanello (NASA), Heng Xiao (Pacific Northwest Nat’l Lab)
This session invites studies that take advantage of these new opportunities to provide novel insights into the spatial and temporal variability of land-atmosphere interactions and associated processes.
- H113. Utilizing Precipitation Datasets and Quantifying Associated Uncertainties in Hydrometeorological and Climate Impact
Applications
Conveners: Paul A Kucera (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), Ali Behrangi (University of Arizona), Emad H Habib (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
This session seeks contributions from the research, operational, and user communities that utilize precipitation datasets in applications that address scientific and societal needs from flood forecasts to climate impact studies.
Other Sessions of Interest
- A003. Advanced remote sensing in preparation for NASA’s PACE mission
- A006. Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model
Applications
- A007. Advances in remote sensing and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols and clouds
- A011. Aerosols, Clouds, Convection and Precipitation
- A018. Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Interactions with Clouds, Radiation, and Climate on Regional Scale
- A020. Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate
- A027. Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change
- A029. Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather: Observations, Theory, and Modeling
- A030. Building Confidence in Future Projections of Regional Precipitation: Identifying Dynamic Sources of Certainty and
Uncertainty
- A034. Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021
- A035. Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms
- A036. Cloud observations and measurements from remote sensing instruments
- A043. Decision-relevant understanding of precipitation extremes and their impacts
- A045. Diagnostic tools and metrics for improving subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction
- A053. Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling
- A056. Extreme Weather Events: Forecast skill, Uncertainty Quantification and Impact Modeling
- A061. General Session: Atmospheric Physics, Radiation, Clouds, and Aerosols
- A070. Lagrangian and Climatological Transitions of Warm Boundary Layer Clouds
- A071. Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations as Tools for Exploring Natural Variability, Change Signals, and
Impacts
- A076. Mega-LES for Atmospheric Discovery: What Have We Learned and How Can We Improve?
- A087. Observation and model studies of cloud properties and associated processes
- A088. Planetary Boundary Layer Science-Focused Remote Sensing
- A100. Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services
- A103. The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Past, Present, and Future Climate: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and
Monsoons
- A105. The Madden-Julian Oscillation and Convectively Coupled Waves in the Tropics: Observations, Theory, Modeling, and
Prediction
- A109. Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes
- GC004. Advancements, Gaps and Needs in Observing, Understanding and Modeling the High-Latitude Earth Systems
- GC019 - Changes and impacts of climate variability in South America
- GC035. Drivers and Mechanisms of Terrestrial Water Cycle Changes at Global and Regional Scales
- GC085. The global water cycle: coupling and exchanges between the ocean, land, and atmosphere
- H010. Advances in quantifying impacts and extents of land-use/land-cover change on hydrology and climate change
- H023. Advancing Soil Moisture Science via Monitoring, Modeling, and Remote Sensing
- H036. Changing water cycles in African drylands to global change
- H050. Evapotranspiration (ET): Advances in In Situ ET Measurements and Remote Sensing-Based ET Estimation, Mapping, and
Evaluation
- H056. GRACE / GRACE-FO Science in Terrestrial Hydrology
- H093. Remote Sensing, Modeling and Data Assimilation of the Terrestrial Water Cycle
- H097. Space-Based Precipitation Observations: Innovations for Science and Applications
- H100. Subgrid parameterization of physical processes in Earth System Models
- H102. Surface Water Hydrology from SWOT, NISAR, and ICESat-2
- H126. Earth System Science Results Based on NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission
Measurements
- IN004. Adopting Principles to Enhance Capabilities for Using Earth Science Data
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