Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Extratropical and High-Latitude Storms: Synoptic-Scale Perspective and
Linkage to Large-Scale Climate Variability, Change, and Impact"
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California
15-19 December 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=program
For further information about this session, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=710
Or contact:
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Papers are invited for session A49: "Extratropical and High-Latitude
Storms: Synoptic-Scale Perspective and Linkage to Large-Scale Climate
Variability, Change, and Impact," to be convened at the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2008, in San
Francisco, California.
Session Description:
Storms bring extreme weathers to the extratropical and polar regions,
and are directly responsible for the major high-wind events, big ocean
waves and surges, coastal flooding and erosion, and rapid temperature
changes. Shift of storm track and intensification of storm activity may
also leave fingerprints on or contribute to large-scale climate
variability and change through altered or strengthen synoptic-scale
atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions associated with storms. This session
will continue to provide a platform to present new progresses of the
studies on the extratropical and high-latitude storm activity from
synoptic-scale analysis to its upscale/integrative linkage to climate
variability and change, as well as associated ecosystem- and societal
impacts. Specifically, the following topics fit this session well:
detection of interannual-to-decadal variability and long-term changes of
storm activity in observations and in model simulations; projections of
possible future conditions; exploration of underlying physical
mechanisms, examination of anthropogenic forcing impacts on the storm
activity; investigation of storm impacts on atmosphere-ice-ocean
interactions and the associated role in climate variability and change;
comparison of storm identification and tracking methodologies; and
statistical analysis and model simulation of extreme weather associated
with storm events. Studies of storm-induced severe weather systems, on
storm dangers and damages, such as big ocean waves, storms surges and
erosion as well as impacts of storm activity on coastlines, ecosystem
and society in the extratropical and polar regions are also welcome.
The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 10 September 2008, at
11:59 p.m. Universal Time. To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=program
For further information about this session, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=710
Or contact the session convenors:
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Vladimir Alexeev
Email: valexeev [at] iarc.uaf.edu
John Walsh
Email: jwalsh [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Lennart Bengtsson
Email: lennart.bengtsson [at] zmaw.de
Christoph Matulla
Email: christoph.matulla [at] zamg.ac.at
Hans von Storch
Email: hvonstorch [at] web.de