Session 3B Dynamics of Jet Streams and Storm Tracks in Past, Present, and Future Climates

Monday, 13 January 2020: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
154 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs:
Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA and Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Papers:
2:00 PM
3B.1
How Will Atmospheric Persistent Anomalies Change in a Warming Climate?
Gary M. Lackmann, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. C. Michaelis, W. A. Robinson, and R. Miller
2:15 PM
3B.2
The Bivariate Sensitivity of Persistent Anomalies to Environmental Temperature and Baroclinicity
Gregory Tierney, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. Miller, W. A. Robinson, and G. M. Lackmann
2:30 PM
3B.3
Size of the Atmospheric Blocking Events: A Scaling Law and Response to Climate Change
Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University, Houston, TX; and E. Nabizadeh, D. Yang, and E. A. Barnes
2:45 PM
3B.4
Increased Shear in the North Atlantic Upper-Level Jet Stream over the Past Four Decades
Paul D. Williams, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK; and S. H. Lee and T. H. A. Frame
3:00 PM
3B.5
Atmospheric Blocking as an Evolution of Rossby Wave Packets
Lei Wang, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and Z. Kuang

3:15 PM
3B.6
A Regime Perspective on the North Atlantic Eddy-Driven Jet Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Amanda Maycock, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and G. Masukwedza, P. Hitchcock, and I. R. Simpson
3:30 PM
3B.7
3:45 PM
3B.8
An Investigation of the Effect of Ocean Mesoscale Variability on the Dynamics of the North Pacific Jet Stream and Storm Track
Istvan Szunyogh, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and E. Forinash, G. Gyarmati, Y. Jia, P. Chang, and R. Saravanan
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