PC21A:
Midlatitude Climate Dynamics and the Role of the Ocean I
PC21A:
Midlatitude Climate Dynamics and the Role of the Ocean I
Midlatitude Climate Dynamics and the Role of the Ocean I
Session ID#: 9329
Session Description:
Climate dynamics is fundamental to understand and predict regional to global climate variability and change. More information on this topic is rapidly becoming available due to increasing amount of data from both models and observations, particularly at high resolution. International climate research programmes such as CLIVAR recognize the importance of climate dynamics. This session explores climate dynamics in mid-latitudes and the role played by the ocean. Four major topics of this session are: 1) storm tracks, jet streams and weather systems, 2) air-sea interactions, in particular ocean-to-atmosphere influences, including those over oceanic currents and fronts, 3) climate phenomena such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Variability, teleconnections and their relevance for regional climate variability and change and 4) processes, variability and change in the ocean and coupling with other components of the climate system, such as the cryosphere and stratosphere. Theoretical, numerical and observational studies are welcomed.
Primary Chair: Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Chairs: Noel S Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Elisa Manzini, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Moderators: Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Noel S Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway and Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Justin Small, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Noel S Keenlyside, Geophysical Institute Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Index Terms:
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
- PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation
- TE - Tropical and Equatorial Environments
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Role of Mid-latitude Oceanic Front Zones in the Ozone-induced Climate Change over the Southern Hemisphere as Revealed in Aqua Planet Experiments (88692)
Predominant nonlinear atmospheric response to meridional shift of the Gulf Stream path from the WRF atmospheric model simulations (91928)
Wintertime atmospheric response to decadal SST anomalies in the North Pacific frontal zone and its relationship to dominant atmospheric internal variability (91398)
Distinguishing Between the Atmospheric Response to the Variability of the Kuroshio and the Oyashio Extensions in the Cold Season and the Impact of the Main Extratropical and Tropical SST Modes, and Sea-Ice Concentration Changes (91711)
State-Dependence of Atmospheric Response to Extratropical North Pacific SST Anomalies (87807)
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