Blocking and Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate Workshop Agenda
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Workshop registration and breakfast |
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Welcome, opening remarks, and workshop goals |
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Session 1: Extreme Weather and Links to Blocking and/ or Persistent Circulation PatternsChairs: Lei Wang and Vee Narinesingh |
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| (Invited) A primer on extreme weather and links to blocking and/or persistent circulation patterns | Olivia Romppainen-Martius, University of Bern | ||
| Storm swamp: A key region for concurrent blocking and heat wave events with quasi-stationary Rossby waves amplification | Valentina Castañeda, Purdue University | Download | |
| Severe weather in southern Europe and severe flooding in Pakistan in August 2022: Linked blocking-related extreme weather events | Lance Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY | Download | |
| Trends in extreme cold air outbreaks in a changing climate and the role of blocking | Hilla Afargan Gerstman, ETH Zurich | ||
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Lightning talks for virtual posters |
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Poster session 1 |
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Lunch |
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Session 2: Theory, Diagnostics, and Hierarchical Modeling of BlockingChairs: Jian Lu and Gang Chen |
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| (Invited) What’s so hard about making theories of atmospheric blocking? | Noboru Nakamura, University of Chicago | Download | |
| A novel atmospheric background state with potential relevance for the onset of blocking | Volkmar Wirth, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Download | |
| Northern Hemisphere winter blocking: Differing onset mechanisms across regions | Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | Download | |
| The three-way feedback between Rossby wave breaking events, circulation regimes, and surface weather | Talia Tamarin-Brodsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Download | |
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Breakout Session 1 |
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End of day for virtual participants; Networking event |
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End of day 1 |
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Alternate breakout session (virtual only) |
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Breakfast |
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Recap day 2 |
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Session 5: Interactions with other components in the Earth SystemChairs: Melissa Breeden and Stephanie Henderson |
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| (Invited) Relationships between atmospheric blocking and large-scale modes of climate variability: The key role of the tropical Pacific | Christina Karamperidou, University of Hawaii | Download | |
| More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice | Pengfei Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University | Download | |
| Pacific oceanic front amplifies the impact of Atlantic oceanic front on North Atlantic blocking | Noureddine Omrani, University of Bergen | Download | |
| The role of AMOC weakening in future Euro-Atlantic atmospheric circulation | Andrea Vito Vacca, Politecnico di Torino | Download | |
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Session 6: Climate Projections and ImpactsChairs: Lei Wang and Tim Woollings |
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| (Invited) Duration and size of blocking events: Future changes and the impact on weather extremes | Pedram Hassanzadeh, University of Chicago | Download | |
| Projected increase in summer heat-dome-like stationary waves over northwestern North America | Ziming Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Download | |
| Moving beyond the mean to understand circulation extremes under climate change | Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago | ||
| Current and future perspectives on North American polar–subtropical jet superposition events | Andrew Winters, University of Colorado Boulder | Download | |
Open discussion |
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Lunch |
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Breakout session 3 |
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Break |
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Breakout Reports |
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Final discussion of next steps |
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End of workshop |