Call for Abstracts
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022
3-8 April 2022
Vienna, Austria and Virtual
Abstract submission deadline: 14 January 2022, 1:00 p.m. Central European Time
For more information, go to:
https://www.egu22.eu/
Organizers invite abstracts for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2022. This event will take place 3-8 April 2022 virtually and in-person in Vienna, Austria.
Conveners of the following session invite abstracts:
SESSION CL4.8: Climate Variability and Prediction in High Latitudes
Conveners: Neven-Stjepan Fuckar, Torben Koenigk, Helge Goessling, and Sam Cornish
Session Abstract:
The Arctic sea ice and high latitude atmosphere and oceans have experienced significant changes over the modern observational era. The polar climate is crucial for the Earth’s energy and water budget, and its variability and change have direct socio-economic and ecological impacts. Thus, understanding high-latitude variability and improving predictions of high latitude climate is highly important for society. Long-term variability in ocean and sea ice are the largest sources for predictability in high latitudes. Dynamical model predictions are not yet in the position to provide us with highly accurate predictions of the polar climate. Main reasons for this are the lack of observations in high latitudes, insufficient initialization methods, and shortcomings of climate models in representing some of the important climate processes in high latitudes.
This session aims for a better understanding and better representation of the mechanisms that control high latitude variability and predictability of climate in both hemispheres from sub-seasonal to multi-decadal time-scales in past, recent, and future climates. Further, the session aims to discuss ongoing efforts to improve climate predictions at high latitudes at various time scales (as e.g., usage of additional observations for initialization, improved initialization methods, impact of higher resolution, improved parameterizations, novel verification approaches) and potential teleconnections of high latitude climate with lower latitude climate. Conveners also aim to link polar climate variability and predictions to potential ecological and socio-economic impacts and encourage submissions on this topic.
The session offers the possibility to present results from ongoing projects and research efforts on the topic of high-latitude climate variability and prediction, including, but not limited to, the WMO Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP), NordForsk-project ARCPATH, MOSAiC, and the H2020-projects APPLICATE, INTAROS, BlueAction, and KEPLER.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/42663