Session 12C BAMS State of the Climate 2022, 2023, and beyond

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
325 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs:
Tim Boyer, NOAA, NCEI, Stennis Space Center, MS; Jessica Blunden, NCEI, Center for Weather and Climate, Asheville, NC; Derek S. Arndt and Ellen Bartow-Gillies, NOAA/NCEI, Asheville, NC

Over the past three decades, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) annual State of the Climate (SoC) report has provided a compendium of essential climate variables (ECVs), their status and relation to the long-term and to other ECVs over the previous year. The SoC also provides a forum for introducing new datasets, techniques, analyses and interesting phenomena in the earth system. Together, the material presented in the report each year gives the reader a full picture of the status of our changing climate system and our ever-evolving ability to accurately monitor each piece. Since its inception, new ECVs, datasets, and methods have been continually added or updated to enhance this picture. Given the broad scope of the SoC, space for elaborating on and providing additional detail for any particular ECV is at a premium.  Given the timeline for publication of the SoC each year, time to investigate in detail the state of an ECV and its relation to other ECVs is also at a premium.  This session is an opportunity to present in depth status for ECVs for 2022 and 2023, causes for the given state, notable events for 2022 and 2023, relationships to other ECVs, impact on the natural and human environment, and implications for future states of the climate.  Abstracts from SoC authors as well as other interested parties are encouraged.  Presentations on ECVs not currently covered in the SoC are also encouraged.

Papers:
4:30 PM
12C.1
4:45 PM
12C.2
The Extreme Sea Surface Temperature and Marine Heatwaves in the Global Oceans in 2023
Boyin Huang, NOAA, Asheville, NC; and X. Yin, J. Carton, L. Chen, G. Graham, T. Smith, and H. M. Zhang

5:00 PM
12C.3
Rapid Attribution of 2022 and 2023 Marine Heatwaves
Joseph Giguere, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ; and D. M. Gilford, PhD and A. Pershing

5:15 PM
12C.4
Global Precipitation for the Year 2023: A Summary and How the Year Fits Into the Trends Associated with Global Warming
Robert F. Adler, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. Gu

5:30 PM
12C.5
Lightning: An Essential Climate Variable
Steven J. Goodman, Thunderbolt Global Analytics, Owens Cross Roads, AL; and M. Fullekrug, E. Williams, C. Price, and R. H. Holzworth

5:45 PM
12C.6
Global Vegetation Fires in 2023 As Seen By GFAS in CAMS
Johannes W. Kaiser, SatFire Kaiser, Hofheim am Taunus, HE, Germany; NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway; and M. Parrington, V. Huijnen, S. Rémy, A. Inness, and J. Flemming

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