A54C
Identifying Links between the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Extremes II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3004 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Deepti Singh, Stanford Earth Sciences, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Julien Cattiaux, CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, Daniel E Horton, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Science, Evanston, IL, United States and Nathaniel C. Johnson, NOAA Princeton, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Deepti Singh, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Julien Cattiaux, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
OSPA Liaisons:  Daniel E Horton, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Science, Evanston, IL, United States; Stanford Earth Sciences, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
16:00
Techniques that Link Extreme Events to the Large Scale, Applied to California Heat Waves (Invited) (63893)
Richard Grotjahn, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
16:15
Analogues of atmospheric circulation to probe extreme and rare events (Invited) (63383)
Pascal Yiou, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
16:30
The influence of atmospheric blocking on extreme winter minimum temperatures in North America (75112)
Kirien Whan and Francis W Zwiers, University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada
16:45
Butterflies, Black swans and Dragon kings: How to use the Dynamical Systems Theory to build a "zoology" of mid-latitude circulation atmospheric extremes? (72315)
Davide Faranda, Pascal Yiou and Carmen MC Alvarez Castro, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
17:00
Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Associated with Temperature Extremes as a Basis for Model Evaluation: Methodological Overview and Results (Invited) (58681)
Paul C Loikith, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Anthony J Broccoli, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Duane E Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Benjamin R Lintner, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
17:15
Stationary Wave Interference and its Relation to Tropical Convection and Climate Extremes (Invited) (74853)
Steven B Feldstein1, Michael Goss1 and Sukyoung Lee2, (1)Penn St Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
17:30
Linking Quasi- Resonant Amplification of Planetary Waves to Weather Extremes in Northern and Southern Hemisphere. (72756)
Kai Kornhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
17:45
Reduced weather variability indicated by decreases in atmospheric energy spectra (82674)
Nicholas R Cavanaugh, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
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