A31M:
Extratropical and High-Latitude Storms, Teleconnections, and the Changing Polar Climate I

Session ID#: 2055

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Kent Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
Co-conveners:  Qinghua Ding, University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Xiaojun Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kent Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3364 Synoptic-scale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Enhanced Climate Changes at High Latitude

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A31M-01
The Relationship Between Recent Arctic Amplification and Extreme Mid-Latitude Weather (Invited) (3838)
Judah Levi Cohen, Atmos and Environ Res Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, James Screen, University of Melbourne, University of Exeter, Melbourne, Australia; University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Jason C Furtado, University of Oklahoma, School of Meterology, Norman, OK, United States, Mathew A Barlow, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lowell, United States, David P Whittleston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States, Dim Coumou, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, Jennifer Ann Francis, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, NJ, United States, Klaus Dethloff, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, United States
A31M-02
Summer-to-winter sea-ice linkage between the Arctic Ocean and the Okhotsk Sea through atmospheric circulation (19257)
Masayo Ogi, University of Manitoba, Centre for Earth Observation Science, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Bunmei Taguchi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Meiji Honda, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, David G Barber, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada and Søren Rysgaard, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
A31M-03
Atmospheric Controls on Upwelling in the Pacific Sector of the Arctic Ocean (Invited) (6279)
Robert S Pickart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Michael A Spall, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
A31M-04
Responses of the Bering-Chukchi Shelf Circulation at Synoptic and Inter-Annual Time Scales to the Location, Strength, and Direction of North Pacific and Western Arctic Winds (Invited) (7072)
Seth L Danielson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, United States, Thomas Weingartner, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Katherine Hedstrom, UAF, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Knut Aagaard, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Rebecca A Woodgate, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, Enrique N Curchitser, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Phyllis J Stabeno, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
A31M-05
Greenland Blocking As a Mechanism for Recent Arctic/Mid-Latitude Weather Linkages (8621)
James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, United States, Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom and Muyin Wang, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States
A31M-06
Influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on the Northern Hemisphere Climate in Winter (17699)
Yannick Peings, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States and Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
A31M-07
Identifying Dynamical Forcing and Cloud-Radiative Feedbacks Critical to the Formation of Extreme Arctic Sea-Ice Extent in the Summers of 2007 and 1996 (17829)
Xiquan Dong1, Behnjamin J Zib1, Baike Xi2, Yi Deng3, Xiangdong Zhang4, Bing Lin5 and Charles N. Long6, (1)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
A31M-08
Skillful long-range prediction of European and North American winters (Invited) (4685)
Rosemary Eade1, Adam A Scaife2, Alberto Arribas2, Ed W Blockley2, Anca Brookshaw2, Robin T Clark2, Nick J Dunstone2, David Fereday2, Christopher Kenneth Folland2, Margaret Gordon2, Leon Hermanson2, Jeff R Knight3, Daniel J Lea2, Craig MacLachlan2, Anna Victoria Maidens2, Matthew Martin2, Andrew Peterson2, Doug M Smith4, Michael Vellinga2, Emily Wallace2, Jennifer Waters2 and Andrew M Williams2, (1)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, EX1, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
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