Two Calls for AGU Session Abstracts
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020
7-11 December 2020 for concentrated content; 1-17 December to minimize scheduling conflicts
Online
Abstract submission deadline: 29 July 2020
For more information about the meeting, go to:
https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2020 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held online 7-11 December 2020 for concentrated content and 1-17 December to minimize scheduling conflicts.
Conveners of the following sessions invite abstract submissions:
C008 - Connecting Dots: Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting and Local Community Needs
Conveners: Ann-Christine Zinkann, Matthew Druckenmiller, Muyin Wang
Arctic sea ice cover has dramatically declined over recent decades resulting in widespread ecosystem responses. Accurate prediction of Arctic sea-ice conditions including concentration, thickness, timing of retreat and advances, type, and quality are of high-priority for Arctic Indigenous communities and required for assessments regarding national security, natural resource management, and ecosystem dynamics. Changes in sea ice conditions have affected Indigenous coastal communities in a variety of ways including reducing travel and access to subsistence harvesting opportunities and increasingly exposing their coastlines and infrastructure to storm surge. This session aims to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and local community information requirements by gaining insights into sea ice modeling needs and limitations, the implications of seasonal model projections and variability, and products and delivery modalities usable to communicate forecasting information to Indigenous communities. Other studies related to the understanding and forecasting of sea ice conditions and Indigenous community impacts are encouraged.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105111
A059 - Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Events, and the Rapidly Changing Polar Climate
Conveners: Xiangdong Zhang, Kent Moore, and James E Overland
Synoptic storms and large-scale teleconnections are prominent dynamic drivers for daily-to-decadal climate variability in the extratropics and high-latitudes and can interplay with external forcings to contribute to long-term climate change. Storms often bring extreme events, including heavy rainfall or snowfall, high winds, large ocean waves and surges, coastal flooding and erosion, abrupt temperature increases, and rapid sea ice loss. Teleconnections link polar and lower latitude climate and play modulating roles in storm activities. Storms and teleconnections have demonstrated systematic changes, leading to alterations of feedback processes and contributing to anomalous variability and changes of climate. This session provides a venue to present progress on extratropical and high-latitude storm activities, teleconnections between extratropics/tropics and the polar regions, resulting extreme events, and underlying physical processes (e.g. stratosphere-troposphere coupling, Rossby wave and jet stream dynamics, wave-mean flow interactions), along with the rapidly changing polar climate, as well as associated ecosystem- and societal impacts.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/104664