Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Interannual and Interdecadal Climate Variability and Predictability
with Special Sessions on Chaos and Nonlinearity in the Climate System
Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Edward N. Lorenz"
MOCA Joint Symposium 09
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19-24 July 2009
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 23 January 2009
For further information, please go to:
http://www.moca-09.org/e/J09.shtml
The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
(IAMAS), the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the
Oceans (IAPSO), and the International Association for the Cryospheric
Sciences (IACS) invite submissions to session J09, "Interannual and
Interdecadal Climate Variability and Predictability with Special
Sessions on Chaos and Nonlinearity in the Climate System Dedicated to
the Memory of Professor Edward N. Lorenz," to be held at the MOCA Joint
Assembly, 19-24 July 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(http://www.moca-09.org). The abstract submission deadline is Friday, 23
January 2009.
Session Description:
Although climate predictions are demanded on increasingly fine regional
scales, the climate system is dominated on interannual-to-decadal
timescales by large-scale patterns that control regional climate. These
patterns couple distinct components of the climate system and disparate
regions of the globe, and as a result remain a challenge to simulate and
to understand. This symposium aims to synthesize current knowledge of
and ability to predict interannual-to-decadal variability. Papers are
solicited that elucidate the mechanisms of interannual to decadal
variability and lend insight into how coupled climate interactions
(atmosphere-ocean-sea ice, troposphere-stratosphere, biosphere-climate,
chemistry-climate, etc.) give rise to this variability.
The symposium will include sessions on important sectors of
interannual-to-decadal variability, as well synthesis sessions,
including:
- Indian and Pacific Ocean sectors;
- The Atlantic sector (including North America and Europe);
- The Southern Hemisphere (including Antarctica);
- The Arctic sector;
- Perspectives on theoretical understanding of interannual-to-decadal
timescale variability; and
- Perspectives on climate prediction on interannual-to-decadal
timescales via simulation with comprehensive climate models.
In light of Professor Edward N. Lorenz's fundamental contributions to
the understanding of nonlinear chaotic dynamics and of climate system
dynamics, MOCA-09 will, in his honor, dedicate part of this symposium to
the theme "Chaos and Nonlinearity in the Climate System." This part of
the symposium will highlight recent advances in the analysis of chaotic
systems and applications to climate. It will also seek to develop new
questions of theoretical interest that arise from observations and
models of climate dynamics, with an emphasis on nonlinear aspects of
climate, such as nonlinear feedbacks and the effect of nonlinearity on
predictability.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
- Ichiro Yasuda, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Mark Serreze, NSIDC/ CIRES, USA
- Judith Perlwitz, CIRES, USA
- Shang-Ping Xie, University of Hawaii, USA
- Ben Kirtman, University of Miami, USA
- Jerry Meehl, NCAR, USA
- Fei Fei Jin, University of Hawaii, USA
- Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA
- Tim Palmer, ECMWF, UK
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Friday, 23 January 2009. For further information, including abstract
submission guidelines, please go to: http://www.moca-09.org/e/J09.shtml.