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 Fall Meeting
14-18 December 2009
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 3 September 2009
For further information, please contact:
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Vladimir Alexeev
Email: valexeev [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Organizers of Session A07, "Extratropical and High-Latitude Storms:
Synoptic-Scale Perspective and Linkage to Large-Scale Climate
Variability, Change, and Impact," announce a call for abstracts. The
session will be convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting, 14-18 December 2009, in San Francisco, California.
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;
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, such as polar lows, and
impacts of storm activity on coastlines, ecosystem, and society in the
extratopical and polar regions are also welcome.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 3 September 2009, at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password at: http://agu-fm09.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Vladimir Alexeev
Email: valexeev [at] iarc.uaf.edu
John E Walsh
Email: jwalsh [at] iarc.uaf.edu