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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, Renu Joseph, Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Phillip Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Scott Harper, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Scott Harper, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States, Phillip Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Scott Harper, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
GC12A-01
 
Towards Improving Sea Ice Predictabiity: Evaluating Climate Models Against Satellite Sea Ice Observations
Julienne Christine Stroeve, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States; University College London, Centre for Polar Observations and Modelling, London, United Kingdom
10:35 AM
GC12A-02
 
Autonomous Investigations of Marginal Ice Zone Processes- Changing Feedbacks and Observational Challenges
Craig Lee, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
10:50 AM
GC12A-03
 
Boundary layer stability acts to ballast the mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Max B Berkelhammer1, David C Noone2,3, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen4, Michael O'Neill5, Adriana Raudzens Bailey6,7, Christopher Cox3,4 and David P Schneider8, (1)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA Boulder, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Dept Atmospheric & Oceanic Sci, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:05 AM
GC12A-04
 
Investigating the Influence of Anomalous Heating Related to Arctic Amplification on Wintertime Stationary Wave Activity: An Idealized Approach
Stefan Sobolowski, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway, Raymond Sellevold, University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway and Camille Li, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
11:20 AM
GC12A-05
 
The Importance of Model Physics to Simulation of Arctic Sea Ice
Daniel Lee Feltham1, Michel Tsamados1, Daniela Flocco1, David Schroeder1, Harold DBS Heorton1 and Alek Petty2, (1)University of Reading, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
11:35 AM
GC12A-06
 
Non-linear feedbacks affecting sea ice deformation in the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM)
Andrew Roberts1, Wieslaw Maslowski1, Thomas Mills2, Elizabeth C Hunke3, Anthony Craig1, Robert Osinski4, John J Cassano5, Alice Duvivier5, Mimi Hughes5, Xubin Zeng6, Michael Brunke6, William J Gutowski Jr7 and Brandon J Fisel7, (1)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Joint Typhoon Warning Center, United States Navy, Pearl City, HI, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)The Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
11:50 AM
GC12A-07
 
Interactions Between Arctic Sea Ice, Clouds, and the Circulation
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, VA, United States
12:05 PM
GC12A-08
 
Large-Eddy Simulations of the Sensitivity of Polar Clouds to Climate Change and Sea Ice
Xiyue Zhang1, Tapio Schneider2, Kyle Pressel2, Zhihong Tan1, Colleen M. Kaul2 and Joao Teixeira3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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