U31A:
2015–2016 El Niño: Global Anomalies and Societal Impacts at Regional Scale

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Session ID#: 13412

Session Description:
High-impact weather and climate extreme events occur over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and have significant societal impacts.  The strong 2015-16 El Niño, interacting with other global anomalies, has had a profound influence on regional extreme events worldwide.  This session solicits input from multidisciplinary physical, biological, and social scientists to advance our understanding, forecasting capability, and decision-making related to climate extreme events.  We will discuss studies related to this recent El Niño event that focus on the observations and modeling of extreme drought, floods, heat waves and cold surges, anomalously severe storms, marine heat waves, harmful algal blooms, vector-borne diseases, and their societal impacts (e.g., water resources, marine ecosystems, fishery, and human health).
Primary Convener:  Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States
Conveners:  Meghan F Cronin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States and Terri S Hogue, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Chairs:  Meghan F Cronin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Shuyi S Chen, University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4522 ENSO [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Understanding and modelling extreme El Nino events (Invited) (122339)
Eric Guilyardi, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS/IRD/MNHN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
El Niño impacts on South America (Invited) (142752)
Alice M Grimm, Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Physics, Curitiba, Brazil
Impacts of 2015-2016 El Nino on Asian-Australian Monsoon Hydrological Hazard (Invited) (172969)
Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, United States
Marine Heat Waves and Their Impacts on Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems (Invited) (152629)
Nicholas A Bond, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
California’s Water Management Response in the Wake of an Underwhelming El Niño (Invited) (162338)
Mark Gold, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Early Warning and Early Action during the 2015-16 El Nino Event (Invited) (179597)
Lisa M Goddard, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate & Society, Palisades, NY, United States and Andrew William Robertson, Center for Climate Systems Research @NASA GISS, New York, United States

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