Earth's radiation budget, hydrological cycle, as well as regional and global climate. Currently, the radiative forcing of aerosols in the climate system remains highly uncertain, representing the largest uncertainty in climate predictions. For the direct effect, aerosols scatter and absorb solar radiation. Light scattering by aerosols changes the radiative fluxes at the top-of-atmosphere (TOA), at the surface, and within the atmospheric column, while aerosol absorption modifies the atmospheric temperature structure, decreases the solar radiation at the surface, and lowers surface sensible and latent fluxes, suppressing convection and reducing cloud fraction. Also, aerosols indirectly impact climate by altering cloud development, lifetime, albedo, and precipitation efficiency. On the other hand, climate variabilities also affect aerosol cycle and lifetime by altering aerosol removal processes. Current treatments of aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions remain crude in climate models. This session aims to review the state of current understanding on aerosol-climate interaction, so we invite any paper on the related subjects.

within the  Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones Conference:

Boston, MA, January 12-16, 2019

Motivation

The Centennial anniversary of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) approaches and many scientists and students prepare to share with the nation and even the world, the accomplishments of their research. In this group of research, we can find a very big team of women scientists working extensively in topics that try to unravel the complex interactions within the atmosphere in the tropical regions.  This year AMS president is Jenni Evans, Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. She received her doctorate in applied mathematics from Monash University. Her research focuses on tropical cyclones from genesis to decay, statistical meteorology, climate, and convection studies including interactions with African Easterly Waves. Jenni Evans is an expert in the big data research. In having such inspirational role model to lead the AMS, there is no better time and opportunity to unite all of the great women that in some way or another have contributed and continue to contribute to tropical meteorology. If it is either through extensive collaborative research with innovative and publishable results, outreach initiatives, or an all-female crew flying into a Hurricane, tropical meteorology has been heard and explored by extraordinary women. Motivated by the work of many females in the field that serve as inspiring figures for many women generations, a “Women in the Tropics” session is proposed here.

The Women in the Tropics will be organized by Kelly Nunez Ocasio, Graduate Student from Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science in collaboration with Shirley T. Murillo, Deputy Director of Hurricane Research Division, Courtney Schumacher, Professor at TAMU and, Ada Monzon, Broadcast Meteorologist in Puerto Rico.

The conference session will be organized as follow:

Introductory Remarks (10 minutes): Kelly Nunez, Pennsylvania State University

Key Note speaker (20-30 minutes): “History of women in the field of Tropical Meteorology”

Three consecutives talks on tropical meteorology research lead by women (each 12-15 minutes)

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Panel Session (30 minutes): “The role of a women in the Tropics, what are the pillars to follow?”

Currently a list of women scientists is being develop to invite to the Women in the Tropics session. In case we receive many positive responses from speakers, who we would encourage to submit abstracts for the proposed conference session, then we are prepared to have more than one session. In addition, some of the participating scientists, in a combination of junior and senior scholars, can become session chairs.

Keynote Speakers:   Ben Kirtman (University of Miami), Ping Chang (Texas A&M University), Sarah Kapnick (GFDL)

Keynote Speakers: Céline Bonfils (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Friederike Otto (Oxford), Marty Hoerling (NOAA), Suzana Camargo (Columbia University)

Keynote Speakers: Céline Bonfils (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Friederike Otto (Oxford), Marty Hoerling (NOAA), Suzana Camargo (Columbia University)

It is well known that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominant mode of global interannual variability, can significantly impact on the physical processes over the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The Atlantic and Indian Ocean interannual variability may feedback to the Pacific in turn: The El Niño-induced Indian Ocean warming usually influences the northwestern Pacific in the summer of the second year, known as the Indian Ocean-capacitor effect. The Atlantic Niño may trigger an east Pacific La Niña event, while the north tropical Atlantic warming usually drive a central Pacific La Niña, together augmenting the ENSO diversity. On decadal time scales, the positive phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can heat the Indian Ocean and drive the Pacific into a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) mode, etc.

These inter-basin teleconnections exert distinct impacts on the global climate system. The Atlantic decadal variability may impact on the global energy balance and thus the “global warming hiatus” through its interactions with the Pacific. The Atlantic-Pacific interaction also has the potential to impact on the polar climate, triggering changes in the sea ice and land ice, and further the global sea level and the deep ocean circulation. The physical processes behind these teleconnections also have broad implications for the seasonal to multi-year predictability of the global climate system, as well as the projection of future climate.

Nevertheless, the mechanisms behind these teleconnections are very complicated. Interactions between different ocean basins are usually attributed to the resonance of multiple mechanisms and pathways. For example, the ENSO events may impact on the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic through the adjustment of the Walker circulation, and the stationary Rossby wave dynamics. On the other hand, the Atlantic warming may feedback to the Pacific through the wind-evaporation-SST (WES) effect and the Bjerknes feedback. More importantly, recent studies suggest that two-way interaction between any two oceans could be more vigorous than previously thought, that the three basins as a whole are a tightly interconnected system. These findings further complicate the physical mechanisms and pathways behind the interactions of the three ocean basins, which desire further discussion and investigation.

Above all, because of its significant climate impacts and complicated mechanisms, I propose a session focusing on “the interactions between the three ocean basins and their implication for the global climate variability”. It will cover topics including the establishment of teleconnection pathways, the impacts of inter-basin teleconnections on regional and global climate, the mechanisms of different teleconnection pathways, and implications of these inter-basin interactions for climate predictability and projection.

It is well known that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominant mode of global interannual variability, can significantly impact on the physical processes over the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The Atlantic and Indian Ocean interannual variability may feedback to the Pacific in turn: The El Niño-induced Indian Ocean warming usually influences the northwestern Pacific in the summer of the second year, known as the Indian Ocean-capacitor effect. The Atlantic Niño may trigger an east Pacific La Niña event, while the north tropical Atlantic warming usually drive a central Pacific La Niña, together augmenting the ENSO diversity. On decadal time scales, the positive phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can heat the Indian Ocean and drive the Pacific into a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) mode, etc.

These inter-basin teleconnections exert distinct impacts on the global climate system. The Atlantic decadal variability may impact on the global energy balance and thus the “global warming hiatus” through its interactions with the Pacific. The Atlantic-Pacific interaction also has the potential to impact on the polar climate, triggering changes in the sea ice and land ice, and further the global sea level and the deep ocean circulation. The physical processes behind these teleconnections also have broad implications for the seasonal to multi-year predictability of the global climate system, as well as the projection of future climate.

Nevertheless, the mechanisms behind these teleconnections are very complicated. Interactions between different ocean basins are usually attributed to the resonance of multiple mechanisms and pathways. For example, the ENSO events may impact on the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic through the adjustment of the Walker circulation, and the stationary Rossby wave dynamics. On the other hand, the Atlantic warming may feedback to the Pacific through the wind-evaporation-SST (WES) effect and the Bjerknes feedback. More importantly, recent studies suggest that two-way interaction between any two oceans could be more vigorous than previously thought, that the three basins as a whole are a tightly interconnected system. These findings further complicate the physical mechanisms and pathways behind the interactions of the three ocean basins, which desire further discussion and investigation.

Above all, because of its significant climate impacts and complicated mechanisms, I propose a session focusing on “the interactions between the three ocean basins and their implication for the global climate variability”. It will cover topics including the establishment of teleconnection pathways, the impacts of inter-basin teleconnections on regional and global climate, the mechanisms of different teleconnection pathways, and implications of these inter-basin interactions for climate predictability and projection.

It is well known that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the dominant mode of global interannual variability, can significantly impact on the physical processes over the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The Atlantic and Indian Ocean interannual variability may feedback to the Pacific in turn: The El Niño-induced Indian Ocean warming usually influences the northwestern Pacific in the summer of the second year, known as the Indian Ocean-capacitor effect. The Atlantic Niño may trigger an east Pacific La Niña event, while the north tropical Atlantic warming usually drive a central Pacific La Niña, together augmenting the ENSO diversity. On decadal time scales, the positive phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can heat the Indian Ocean and drive the Pacific into a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) mode, etc.

These inter-basin teleconnections exert distinct impacts on the global climate system. The Atlantic decadal variability may impact on the global energy balance and thus the “global warming hiatus” through its interactions with the Pacific. The Atlantic-Pacific interaction also has the potential to impact on the polar climate, triggering changes in the sea ice and land ice, and further the global sea level and the deep ocean circulation. The physical processes behind these teleconnections also have broad implications for the seasonal to multi-year predictability of the global climate system, as well as the projection of future climate.

Nevertheless, the mechanisms behind these teleconnections are very complicated. Interactions between different ocean basins are usually attributed to the resonance of multiple mechanisms and pathways. For example, the ENSO events may impact on the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic through the adjustment of the Walker circulation, and the stationary Rossby wave dynamics. On the other hand, the Atlantic warming may feedback to the Pacific through the wind-evaporation-SST (WES) effect and the Bjerknes feedback. More importantly, recent studies suggest that two-way interaction between any two oceans could be more vigorous than previously thought, that the three basins as a whole are a tightly interconnected system. These findings further complicate the physical mechanisms and pathways behind the interactions of the three ocean basins, which desire further discussion and investigation.

Above all, because of its significant climate impacts and complicated mechanisms, I propose a session focusing on “the interactions between the three ocean basins and their implication for the global climate variability”. It will cover topics including the establishment of teleconnection pathways, the impacts of inter-basin teleconnections on regional and global climate, the mechanisms of different teleconnection pathways, and implications of these inter-basin interactions for climate predictability and projection.