CLIVAR-relevant sessions at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting

Organized according to core science topics and research challenges presented in the updated Science Plan, the list of sessions is not intended to be exhaustive, but to help the community digest the collection of the hundreds of sessions and events. 

  

US CLIVAR-specific sessions

Climate Extremes: Trends, Mechanisms, and Prediction

Climate Research to Applications: Realizing societal benefits of information from US CLIVAR Science

Enhancing Our Understanding, Monitoring, and Forecasting of the 2014-2015 El Nino and Its Relationship with the Record Warming in the North Pacific

Monitoring, Understanding and Forecasting of the 2014/15 and 2015 El Nino 

US CLIVAR session on improved representation of physical processes in global models 

US CLIVAR Session on the Global Energy Balance, Ocean Heat Content, and the Warming Hiatus

This session will also feature a panel discussion with Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Thomas Karl, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, Shang-Ping Xie, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Veronica Nieves, University of California Los Angeles,  Ka Kit Tung, University of Washington, and Dean Roemmich, University of California San Diego.

 

Town Halls

CLIVAR-Climate and Ocean-The next 10 years of CLIVAR science as part of the World Climate Research Programme

A critical gap in data management: integration workflows for models and data

Building Science Knowledge and Meeting Climate Change Challenges: US Global Change Research Program and the National Climate Assessment

Decadal USGCRP Science Assessment of the Carbon Cycle in the US and North America: The 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report

Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee: Accelerating the Pace of Arctic Research

NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall

NASA Sea Level Change Town Hall

NOAA's Research and Development Enterprise

Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Town Hall 

The 2017-2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space

Utilizing online streaming data from the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative

What is new in NSF Geoscience

 

Sub-Seasonal to Interannual Variability and Predictability

Equatorial Dynamics of the Oceans and Atmosphere 

Madden-Julian Oscillation

Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction of Weather and Climate 

The El Niño - Southern Oscillation continuum 

 

Decadal Variability and Predictability

Intraseasonal to Decadal Climate Variability, Prediction, and Predictability Associated with Land-Atmosphere Interactions

Teleconnections in Hydrological Systems at Decadal Timescales: Challenges for Hydrological Modeling and Projection Uncertainties 

  

Climate and Extreme Events

Advances in Hydroclimatology and Climate Change

Characterizing and interpreting changes in temperature and precipitation extremes

Climate extremes: Trends, Mechanisms, and Prediction 

Dynamics and Predictability of Midlatitude Storms in a Changing Climate 

Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought

Identifying links between the large-scale atmospheric circulation and climate extremes 

The Attribution of Extreme Weather Events and their Impacts to External Drivers of Climate Change

Tropical Cyclones and Climate on All Timescales

Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Modeling and Predictability

Understanding and Attributing Extreme Weather Events and Their Impacts Across Actors and Spatial Scales

 

Polar Climate

Advances in Understanding Sea Ice Variability and Change in the Coupled Earth System 

Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Properties and Processes 

Atmospheric drivers of recent and future changes in the cryosphere

Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Weather, and the Changing Polar Climate

Glacier-Ocean Interactions: Observations, Mechanisms, and Synthesis

Looking to the Future of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research

Modeling of the Cryosphere: Glaciers and Ice Sheets

Polar Climate and Predictability 

The Role of Meltwater in Abrupt Climate Change: From the Arctic to Antarctic

  

Climate and Ocean Carbon/Biogeochemistry 

Eastern boundary upwelling systems: Natural laboratories for studying the impacts of multiple stressors on marine ecosystems

New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models

Profiling Float and New Technologies for Observation of Ocean Physics and Biogeochemistry

  

Air-Sea Interaction, Marine Boundary Layer, and Clouds

Coupling of Clouds, Convection, Radiation, and Aerosols in the Climate System

Improving Clouds and Water Vapor Simulations in Climate Models and Observing System Simulation Experiments

Interplay of Surface-Atmosphere Coupling and Atmospheric Dynamics in the Changing Climate System

Large-Eddy and High-Resolution Simulations for Improved Understanding and Parameterization of Clouds and Boundary Layer Processes

Marine Boundary Layer Clouds and Aerosols: Observations and Process Modeling

Measurement and modelling of the ocean surface boundary layer

 

Observing and Modeling Variability and Change

Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms

Dynamical downscaling: methodology and assessment

Evaluating Reanalysis: What can we learn about past weather and climate?

High Resolution Climate Modeling

Multi-scale modeling of the atmosphere

Process-oriented evaluation of climate model physics using observations and high-resolution models

Regional Climate Modeling 

Stochastic Modelling in Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics

Taking the temperature of the Earth: Long term trends and variability across all domains of Earth's surface

Toward Reducing Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Evaluation, Understanding, and Improvement 

  

Other relevant sessions

Asia-Pacific climate: past, present, and future 

Connecting stakeholders with climate science: the role of climate programs

Detecting and Attributing Impacts of Climate Change

Dynamics of the hydrological cycle: Monsoons, storm tracks, and the ITCZ

General Oceanography

Hydroclimate and Atmospheric Circulation Patterns on Multidecadal to Millennial Timescales

Ocean Change in the Anthropocene: Implications for Climate, Ecosystems, and Societies

Regional and Global Sea Level Variability and Projections