GC31D:
Earth's Energy Imbalance and Energy Flows through the Climate System I Posters

Submit an Abstract to this Session Please know the abstract submission deadline has passed. There are no exceptions to this deadline and no new abstracts can be submitted.
You can still search the program to see your colleague�s abstract submissions as well as the sessions submitted for the 2016 Fall Meeting. The final program will be released in early October.


Session ID#: 12738

Session Description:
Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is the fundamental measure of climate. The goal of this session is to bring together experts from ocean and atmospheric reanalysis, air-sea fluxes, ocean heat content (OHC), climate models, atmospheric radiation and sea level to better synthesize all the information available on the energy flows through the climate system and inventories of where it resides.  This is a central topic under a CLIVAR research focus “CONCEPT-HEAT” “Consistency between planetary energy balance and ocean heat storage”.  Papers on fluxes of energy at top-of-atmosphere and the surface, and analyses of changes in storage of energy and its movement around are encouraged.   A major reservoir is the ocean and ways to improve OHC analyses and achieve closure of the energy budget over time are especially included.   Assessments of model and reanalyses performance, observational results, and insights on EEI from both global and regional “cage” studies are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean international, Scientific Direction, Toulouse, France
Chairs:  Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean international, Scientific Direction, Toulouse, France
OSPA Liaison:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Analysis of the residual in column integrated atmospheric energy balance (162858)
Seiji Kato1, Kuan-Man Xu2, Takmeng Wong2, Norman G Loeb2, Fred G Rose3, Kevin E Trenberth4 and Tyler Thorsen2, (1)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Inter-hemispheric asymmetry of the global energy budget and near-surface temperature anomalies throughout the 20th Century (158533)
Valerio Lembo1, Doris Folini2, Martin Wild3 and Piero Lionello1, (1)University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, (2)ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Constraining Changes in Ocean Heat Content from 1990-2015 Using a Data Assimilation Ocean Circulation Model (139104)
Aaron Bagnell, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Timothy J DeVries, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
The Effect of Cloud Type on Earth’s Energy Imbalance (124158)
Yun Hang, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States and Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States
Magnetic remote sensing of ocean heat content (191894)
Robert Tyler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Terence J Sabaka, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Time and Spectral Dependent Degradation Correction for ERBE WFOV Shortwave Nonscanner Instruments and Revisiting its Radiation Observations (1985 to 1998) (175142)
Alok K Shrestha1, Seiji Kato2, Takmeng Wong3, Paul W Stackhouse Jr3, Fred G Rose4, Walter F Miller4, Kathryn Bush4, David A Rutan4, Patrick Minnis5 and David R Doelling5, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States

See more of: Global Environmental Change