GC21D:
Earth's Energy Imbalance and Energy Flows Through the Climate System II Posters

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Session ID#: 24188

Session Description:
Earth energy imbalance is the fundamental measure of the rate at which earth’s climate changes. Solar radiation absorbed by the Earth is converted into different forms of energy. The goal of this session is to bring together observation and modeling experts and data users of ocean and atmospheric, reanalysis, air-sea fluxes, ocean heat content, 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. 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. Especially, ways to improve ocean heat content analyses and evaluation of the closure of the energy budget of various forms of energy are included. Assessments of model and reanalyses performance, observational results, and insights on Earth energy imbalance are encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States
Conveners:  Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean international, Scientific Direction, Toulouse, France, Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Tristan L'Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean International, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, Atmospheric Sciences, and Ocean Sciences

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

1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Thoughts on why in CESM a more poleward TOA energy imbalance favors more ocean-centric energy transport and weaker ITCZ shift responses (287111)
Sungduk Yu, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Mike S Pritchard, University California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
Long-term record of top-of-atmosphere albedo generated from AVHRR data (300470)
Zhen Song, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Empirical links between the local runaway greenhouse, super-greenhouse, and deep convection in Earth's tropics (282247)
Maura Claire Dewey, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Dr. Colin Goldblatt, PhD, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
The Contrasting Climate Response to Tropical and Extratropical Energy Perturbations (212545)
Matt Hawcroft, University of Exeter, CEMPS, Exeter, United Kingdom, Jim M Haywood, U.K. Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Matthew Collins, University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom and Andy Jones, Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services, Exeter, United Kingdom
“Analysis of the multi-layered cloud radiative effects at the surface using A-train data” (217768)
Antonio Viudez-Mora, William L Smith Jr and Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Understanding the Significant Disparity between Observations and CMIP5 Model Simulations at the Ocean/Atmosphere Interface in the Tropics. (224218)
Robert Junod and John R Christy, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Short Wave Part of Earth’s Energy Budget at Top of Atmosphere During 2009-2017 from Radiometer IKOR-M Data (226553)
Maksim Cherviakov, Anastasia Spiryakhina, Yana Surkova, Eugenia Kulkova and Elena Shishkina, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
TOA Radiation Balance Study through Reprocessed ERBS WFOV Nonscanner data from 1985 to 1998 (252385)
Alok K Shrestha1, Seiji Kato2, Takmeng Wong2, Paul W Stackhouse Jr3, David R Doelling3 and Robert Paul Loughman4, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Ctr Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
Uncertainty analysis of scintillometers methods in measuring sensible heat fluxes of forest ecosystem (252490)
Ning Zheng, Campbell Scientific (Beijing) Co., Ltd, Beijing, China

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