GC12A:
Advancing Science of the Arctic System: Observing, Modeling, and Prediction of Critical Processes, Feedbacks, and Their Role in Climate Change I

Session ID#: 2571

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3002 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, Renu Joseph, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, United States, Philip W Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Scott Harper, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Scott Harper, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States, Philip W Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Scott Harper, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Enhanced Climate Changes at High Latitude

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC12A-01
Towards Improving Sea Ice Predictabiity: Evaluating Climate Models Against Satellite Sea Ice Observations (Invited) (3661)
Julienne Christine Stroeve, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States; University College London, Centre for Polar Observations and Modelling, London, United Kingdom
GC12A-02
Autonomous Investigations of Marginal Ice Zone Processes- Changing Feedbacks and Observational Challenges (25884)
Craig Lee, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States and ONR Marginal Ice Zone Team
GC12A-03
Boundary layer stability acts to ballast the mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet (13681)
Max B Berkelhammer, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, United States, David Noone, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States; College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, University of Bergen & BCCR, Bergen, Norway, Michael O'Neill, NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Adriana Raudzens Bailey, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States; Dept Atmospheric & Oceanic Sci, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher Cox, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and David P Schneider, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
GC12A-04
Investigating the Influence of Anomalous Heating Related to Arctic Amplification on Wintertime Stationary Wave Activity: An Idealized Approach (21950)
Stefan Sobolowski, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway, Raymond Sellevold, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway and Camille Li, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
GC12A-05
The Importance of Model Physics to Simulation of Arctic Sea Ice (Invited) (5085)
Daniel Lee Feltham1, Michel Tsamados1, Daniela Flocco2, David Schroeder3, Harold DBS Heorton3 and Alek Petty4, (1)University of Reading, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (4)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
GC12A-06
Non-linear feedbacks affecting sea ice deformation in the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) (Invited) (4506)
Andrew Roberts1, Wieslaw Maslowski2, Thomas Mills3, Elizabeth Clare Hunke4, Anthony Craig5, Robert Osinski6, John J Cassano7, Alice K DuVivier8, Mimi Abel8, Xubin Zeng9, Michael Brunke9, William J Gutowski Jr10 and Brandon J Fisel11, (1)Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy, Pearl City, HI, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (5)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, United States, (6)Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (11)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
GC12A-07
Interactions Between Arctic Sea Ice, Clouds, and the Circulation (8041)
Patrick C Taylor1, Seiji Kato2, Kuan-Man Xu1 and Noel C Baker1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States
GC12A-08
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Sensitivity of Polar Clouds to Climate Change and Sea Ice (11053)
Dr. Xiyue Zhang, PhD1, Tapio Schneider2, Kyle Gregory Pressel2, Zhihong Tan3, Colleen M. Kaul2 and Joao Teixeira4, (1)California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
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