Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Extratropical and Polar Storms: Synoptic-Scale Perspective and
Linkage to Large-Scale Climate Variability and Change
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
10-14 December 2007
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 September 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=393
Papers are invited for Session A25: "Extratropical and Polar Storms:
Synoptic-Scale Perspective and Linkage to Large-Scale Climate
Variability and Change" being convened at the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Fall Meeting on 10-14 December 2007 in San Francisco, California.
Session Description:
This session is a continuation of the successful sessions during
previous years. In addition to the fact that storms bring extreme
weather to the extratropical and polar regions, and are directly
responsible for the major high-wind events, 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 strengthened synoptic-scale, atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions
associated with storms. This session will continue to provide a platform
to present new progress of the studies on the extratropical and polar
storm activity from synoptic-scale analysis to its upscale/integrative
linkage to climate variability and change. Specifically, the following
topics fit this session well: (1) detection of interannual-to-decadal
variability and long-term changes of storm activity in observations and
model simulations; (2) exploration of underlying physical mechanisms and
examination of anthropogenic forcing impacts on the storm activity; (3)
investigation of storm impacts on atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions and
the associated role in climate variability and change; (4) comparison of
storm identification and tracking methodologies; and (5) statistical
analysis and model simulation of extreme weather associated with storm
events. Studies of storm-induced severe weather systems, such as polar
lows, and impacts of storm activity on coastlines, ecosystems, and
society in the extratropical and polar regions are also welcome.
Conveners:
Xiangdong Zhang
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu
John Walsh
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: jwalsh [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Vladimir Alexeev
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: valexeev [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Further information and abstract submission procedures are available at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/