A53L:
Polar Atmospheric Processes and Their Interactions with the Land, Ice, and Ocean Surface

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Session ID#: 33549

Session Description:
The earth’s polar regions are experiencing unprecedented changes, which will have profound effects on the global climate, society and biodiversity. Given the complexity of polar climate, a complete understanding requires a continuous effort in observation, modeling, and a thorough analysis of each component and their interactions. This session invites contributions on recent advances in polar remote sensing and in situ observations, modeling and analysis of polar atmospheric processes and their physical, chemical and biological interactions with the ice sheets, sea ice and open oceans. We especially welcome papers on polar radiation budget, boundary layer, polar cloud, blowing snow processes, and precipitation modeling or analysis.
Primary Convener:  Patrick C Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Yuekui Yang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Lauren M Zamora, University of Maryland, College Park, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Yuekui Yang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Jan Lenaerts, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lauren M Zamora, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:

0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Is it Becoming Warmer and Wetter in the Antarctic? A Look at Evaporation from the Southern Ocean (Invited) (211624)
Linette Boisvert, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States and Chung-Lin Shie, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Code 610.2, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Observing and modeling the Antarctic planetary boundary layer (Invited) (229627)
David H Bromwich, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Jonathan Wille, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, John J Cassano, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, Melissa A Nigro, CIRES - Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Marian Mateling, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Matthew A. Lazzara, Madison Area Technical College, Department of Physical Sciences; School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Madison, United States
AERI Observations of Antarctic Clouds Properties During AWARE (227519)
Jonathan Gero, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, United States, Penny M Rowe, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO, United States and Von Patrick Walden, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
The mixed Antarctic boundary layer: An analysis based on Concordiasi dropsonde observations during spring 2010 (296577)
Manisha Ganeshan, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Yuekui Yang, NASA, Greenbelt, United States
Observations and modeling of drifting snow occurrences in coastal East Antarctica (231413)
Charles Amory, Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium, Christoph Kittel, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, Hubert Gallée, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France and Xavier Fettweis, University of Liège, Département de Géographie, Liège, Belgium
New Perspectives on Blowing Snow Transport, Sublimation, and Layer Thermodynamic Structure over Antarctica (225982)
Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Yuekui Yang, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, Vinay Kayetha, Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, United States and Rebecca Pauly, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
How do the radiative effects of springtime clouds and water vapor modulate the melt onset of Arctic sea ice? (242870)
Yiyi Huang1, Xiquan Dong2, Baike Xi2 and Yi Deng3, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, (3)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
Arctic atmospheric preconditioning: do not rule out shortwave radiation just yet (255253)
Joseph Sedlar, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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