HR: 11:45h
AN: A22B-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Studies of the General Circulation with a Simplified Moist GCM
AU: * Frierson, D M
EM: dargan@atmos.washington.edu
AF: Univ. of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640,
AB: Idealized atmospheric models often ignore moisture and latent heating due to the significant complexity associated with moist convection. However, for many atmospheric phenomena, moisture is of fundamental importance. We will discuss the development of a idealized moist general circulation model, including the formulation and testing of different physicalparameterizations such as radiation and convection schemes. Then we provide a survey of some of the results we have derived using this model, involving the Hadley circulation, midlatitude static stability, jet latitude, and atmospheric energy transports. We also provide comparisons with full GCMs, to validate the results from the idealized model.
DE: 3319 General circulation (1223)
DE: 3337 Global climate models (1626, 4928)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting