Three Calls for AGU Fall Meeting Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
10-14 December 2018
Washington, D.C.
Abstract submission deadline: 1 August 2018
For more information about the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, go to:
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2018 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held 10-14 December 2018 in Washington, D.C.
Conveners of the following sessions invite abstract submissions:
SESSION 49580: Advancing Earth Science Applications with NASA’s New Ice, Cloud and Land Elevations Satellite Data
Conveners: Sabrina Delgado Arias, Lori A. Magruder, Tom Neumann, and Michael F. Jasinski
In September 2018, the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2) mission, will launch into its 500-kilometer orbit to provide spatially dense and fine precision global measurements of the earth’s surface elevation. The highly anticipated altimetry measurements are expected to improve decision processes needed to advance applications ranging from operational sea ice forecasting for Arctic shipping to monitoring global flood risk to improving fire fuel mapping. This session provides a forum for the scientific achievements associated with pre-launch and preliminary post-launch investigations to effectively integrate ICESat-2 observations into models, forecasts, and analyses used in decision processes to address practical societal needs. Submissions associated with multi-disciplinary studies for using ICESat-2 data in support of policy, business, and management decisions are encouraged. Attendees will be exposed to innovative ideas for applying ICESat-2 measurements in advance of the public release of the ICESat-2 data. More information about ICESat-2 is available at https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/applications.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/49580
For questions about this session, contact:
Sabrina Delgado Arias
Email: sabrina.delgadoarias [at] nasa.gov
Phone: 301-614-6696
SESSION 44017: Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Weather, and the Changing Polar Climate
Conveners: Xiangdong Zhang, Kent Moore, and James E. Overland
Synoptic storms and large-scale teleconnections are prominent features characterizing daily-to-decadal climate variability in the extratropics and high-latitudes. Storms often bring extreme weather, including high winds, large ocean waves and surges, coastal flooding and erosion, abrupt temperature increases, and rapid sea ice loss. Teleconnection patterns play modulating roles in storm activity, linking polar and mid-latitude climate. In addition, the tropics has been recognized as an important source for triggering teleconnections and may also be subject to impacts of polar climate changes. Storms and teleconnections have demonstrated systematic variations, leading to alterations of feedback processes and, in turn, contributing to climate variability and change. This session will provide a venue to present progress and new ideas on extratropical and high-latitude storm activity, tropical or extratropical teleconnections with the polar regions, resulting extreme events, and underlying physical feedback processes along with the changing polar climate, as well as associated ecosystem and societal impacts.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/44017
For questions about this session, contact:
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xzhang9 [at] alaska.edu
Phone: 336-850-0566
Kent Moore
Email: gwkmoore [at] gmail.com
James Overland
Email: james.e.overland [at] noaa.gov
SESSION 45832: Polar Atmospheric Processes and Their Interactions with Land, Ice, and Ocean
Conveners: Patrick C. Taylor, Yuekui Yang, Linette Boisvert, and Lauren M. Zamora
Rapid, record changes in the polar regions have widespread implications for human activities and global climate. A better understanding of the highly complex Arctic and Antarctic systems requires combined modeling and observation activities that incorporate a variety of technologies and data sources (e.g., from large-scale comprehensive field campaigns, coordinated modeling activities, satellites and SmallSats, ground stations, and autonomous vehicles). This session invites contributions on recent activities and insights on polar atmospheric processes and their physical, chemical, and biological interactions with the ice sheets, sea ice, and open oceans. Conveners especially welcome papers on the polar radiation budget, boundary layer structure, and snow, cloud, and aerosol processes, transport, and interactions.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/45832
For questions about this session, contact:
Lauren Zamora
Email: lauren.m.zamora [at] nasa.gov