A32D:
Extratropical and High-Latitude Storms, Teleconnections, and the Changing Polar Climate II

Session ID#: 5347

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Qinghua Ding, University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States and Xiaojun Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States
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:  Xiaojun Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States
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:

A32D-01
The impact of projected Arctic sea ice loss on the Tropics: the role of ocean dynamics (Invited) (4354)
Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert A Tomas, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
A32D-02
Tropical Connections to Climatic Change in the Extratropical Southern Hemisphere: The Role of Atlantic SST Trends (Invited) (4698)
Graham Robert Simpkins1,2, Dr. Shayne McGregor3, Andrea Taschetto2,4, Laura Ciasto5 and Matthew H England4,6, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (2)ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, Australia, (3)Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (4)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (6)Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A32D-03
The Relationship Between the ITCZ and the Southern Hemispheric Eddy-Driven Jet (Invited) (2320)
Paulo Ceppi1, Yen-Ting Hwang2,3, Xiaojuan Liu2, Dargan M Frierson2 and Dennis L. Hartmann1, (1)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
A32D-04
A theory for polar amplification from a general circulation perspective (Invited) (2576)
Sukyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States; Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
A32D-05
Weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex by Arctic sea-ice loss (21345)
Baek-Min Kim, KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, Seok Woo Son, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Seung-Ki Min, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, Republic of (South), Jee Hoon Jeong, Chonnam National University, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Gwangju, South Korea, Seong-Joong Kim, KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Incheon, South Korea, Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Taehyoun Shim, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South) and Jin-Ho Yoon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
A32D-06
CMIP5 projections of Arctic amplification, of the North American/North Atlantic circulation, and of their relationship  (22724)
Elizabeth A Barnes, Boston University, Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences; Earth & Environment, Boston, United States and Prof. Lorenzo M Polvani, PhD, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, United States
A32D-07
Isolating the Impact of human-induced Arctic Sea Ice Loss on the Atmosphere (27813)
Kelly E McCusker1, John C Fyfe2 and Michael Sigmond2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Environment Canada, Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada
A32D-08
Cyclone and Anticyclone Activities Impact Eurasian Surface Climate and Cause Extreme Cold Events ? (31137)
Chuhan Lu1, Xiangdong Zhang2, Zhaoyong Guan1, Zhaomin Wang1 and Yujing Qin1, (1)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
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