AGU Fall Meeting Sessions and Events Relevant to CLIVAR
Sessions are categorized under the four research challenges identified in the Science Plan (decadal variability and predictability, climate extremes, polar climate, and climate and ocean/biogeochemistry) along with other core CLIVAR-relevant science topics:
1. Decadal variability & predictability
4. Climate & ocean carbon/biogeochemistry
5. Observing & modeling variability & change
1. Decadal variability & predictability
- Decadal-to-Multidecadal Climate Variability and Change over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- Regional Decadal Prediction
- Characterizing, Understanding, and Modeling Climate Extremes
- Climatology and Trends of Extreme Events in Climate Models Capable of Resolving Regional Scale Processes
- Disturbances and extreme climate events: impacts and feedbacks
- Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Modeling and Predictability
3. Polar climate
- Advancing Science of the Arctic System: Observing, Modeling and Prediction of Critical Processes, Feedbacks and Their Role in Climate Change.
- Arctic and Antarctic sea ice properties and processes
- Arctic Change: Impacts and Responses
- Coupling ice sheet models to climate models: current state and outlook
- East Antarctic ice-ocean-continental margin interactions from the Eocene to the future
- Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, and the Changing Arctic Climate
- Glacier-Ocean Interactions: Iceberg Calving and Submarine Melting
- Ice margin and climate changes on Greenland: Contemporary through Holocene
- Icesheet Surging, Meltwater Pathways, & Abrupt Climate Change
- On the impact of land ice-ocean interactions on Greenland and Antarctica ice mass balance
- Peeking Under the Ice: Revealing New Aspects of the Previously Hidden Polar Regions
- Polar Climate: Processes and Predictability
- Results from a Decade+ of Arctic Ocean Network Observations
- The Southern Ocean: Precipitation, Clouds, Aerosols and the Air-Sea Interface
- Tropical Connections to Polar Regions
- Understanding ice loss in coupled glacier-ocean systems through observations, modeling, and theory
4. Climate & ocean carbon/biogeochemistry
- Carbon Cycling in Arctic and Subarctic Aquatic Systems in a Changing Climate
- Changing Ecosystems of the Arctic and Antarctic
- High resolution archives of marine biogeochemistry, climate, and environmental change
5. Observing & modeling variability & change
- The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Climate Variability and Change
- Advances in Numerical Methods for Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling
Atmospheric Rivers: Observations, Dynamics, Modeling, Impacts and Applications - Airborne Systems in Support of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research
- CalWater Theme 1: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions in California
- Climate Data, Information, and Knowledge for Societal Decision Making
- Constraining Climate Model Simulations and Predictions Using Observations
- Equatorial Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Oceans
- ENSO: Precursors and Expected Change
- From QuikSCAT to RapidSCAT: Recent Accomplishments in Air/Sea Interaction and Climate Variability
- Maritime Continent: Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes and Their Interaction
- Madden-Julian Oscillation: Observations, Modeling, and Prediction
- Multi-Model Ensembles Predictions for Intraseasonal-to-Interannual Timescales
- Multi-scale variability and predictability of ocean circulation and climate over the Indo-Pacific Ocean
- North American Monsoon Processes and Prediction
- Ocean Salinity and Water Cycle Variability and Change
- Pattern Scaling and Other Climate Model Emulators: Strengths, Limitations, and Relevance for Future Scenario Choices
- Physics of Climate Models
- Progress and Challenges in the Development of a Global Drought Information System
- Recent observations and modeling studies on the Physical Oceanography and Air-sea interactions of the Arabian Sea/Northern Indian Ocean
- Regional Climate Modeling
- Scale Dependence, Scale Invariance, and Scale Aware Parameterization
- Sea level, ice sheets, and high-latitude climates during previous warm periods
- Understanding spatial and temporal variability of sea level rise
- Climate sensitivity and feedbacks: advances and new paradigms
- Connecting Climate Projections to Coastal Response
- International Cooperation to Further the Earth Sciences
- Long-Range Forecasts of Seasonal Transitions in the Climate System and Their Relevance for Management and Adaptation
- Multidisciplinary Climate Change Research
- The Third U.S. National Climate Assessment: Remaining Climate Science Questions
Workshops:
- Communicating Climate Science Workshop
- Preparing for Global Change: An Education, Collaboration, and Community Engagement Workshop to Enable a Science Savvy Society
Town Halls:
December 14
December 15
- ARM Next Generation Town Hall
- Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Town Hall
- DOE’s Interests in Extreme Events
- Advancing Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction
December 16
- Town Hall Meeting on the US Group on Earth Observations and the US National Plan for Civil Earth Observations
- Leveraging Climate Science for Societal Benefit and Application
- What’s new in the NSF Geosciences
December 17
- The Next Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Application from Space
- Access to NASA Earth Observations and Earth Science Information: Current Status and an Invitation to Discuss Future Steps
December 18
- Planning for the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)
- NASA Earth Sciences Division Town Hall
- DOE’s Accelerate Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) Project
- NSF Division of Polar Programs Town Hall
- Evaluating the Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GOESS) and Envisioning the Next Decade
- Strategic Planning Update from UCAR