Session 7 |
| | Special session on long-term climate variability and change emphasizing paleoclimatic observations and modeling |
| | Organizers: Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; David M. Anderson, National Climatic Data Center Paleoclimatology Branch, Boulder, CO
Chair: David M. Anderson, National Climatic Data Center Paleoclimatology Branch, Boulder, CO
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| 3:30 PM | 7.1 | Global Signatures of the “Little Ice Age” and “Medieval Climate Anomaly” and Plausible Dynamical Origins
Michael E. Mann, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA |
| 4:00 PM | 7.2 | Examining the forced response of past regional climate to guide selection of general circulation models for regional analyses 
Eugene R. Wahl, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Boulder, CO; and C. M. Ammann |
| 4:15 PM | 7.3 | Proxy-model comparisons of North Atlantic sea surface conditions prior to the 8.2 ka event
Kelsey Watkins, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and A. Wagner and C. Morrill |
| 4:30 PM | 7.4 | Assessing model sensitivity to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations using past abrupt climate events
Carrie Morrill, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Boulder, CO; and A. Wagner, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, and N. Rosenbloom |
| 4:45 PM | 7.5 | The climate of past interglacials: polar warmth and sea level rise
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Rosenbloom and E. Brady |
| 5:00 PM | 7.6 | What simulations of past warm climates tell us about the future
Jeffrey T. Kiehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 5:15 PM | 7.7 | Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation Climate Evolution with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming
Zhengyu Liu, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and B. Otto-Bliesner, F. He, E. Brady, R. Tomas, P. U. Clark, A. E. Carlson, J. Lynch-Stieglitz, W. Curry, D. J. Erickson III, R. Jacob, J. E. Kutzbach, and J. Cheng |
| 5:30 PM | 7.8 | Can oceanic meridional overturning circulation cause abrupt climate change
Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meehl and W. Han |