Call for Abstracts
Cyclones in the Polar Climate System: Changes, Mechanisms, and Impacts
18th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
12-16 May 2025
Denver, Colorado and Online
Abstract submission deadline: 5 December 2024
For more information, go to:
https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/meetings-events/ams-meetings/2025…
Conveners invite abstracts for sessions during at the 18th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography that will take place as part of the 2025 American Meteorological Society (AMS) summit, 12-16 May 2025 in Denver, Colorado and online.
SESSION: Cyclones in the Polar Climate System: Changes, Mechanisms, and Impacts
Conveners: Elina Valkonen, Chelsea Parker, Melinda Webster, Alex Crawford, and Xiangdong Zhang
Session Description:
Cyclones are synoptic-scale weather systems that drive the occurrence of extreme weather conditions, such as strong winds, high seas, heavy precipitation, and large changes in temperature, humidity, ocean heat content, and clouds. These events can be hazardous to local communities and livelihoods, maritime travel, and industry, and other economically and culturally significant activities. High-latitude cyclones also contribute to complex and tightly coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions, which are influenced by and modulate the local and global climate. Cyclones, sea ice, and the ocean in the Arctic and Antarctic have been rapidly changing with the warming climate. However, the geophysical and societal impacts of high latitude cyclones in current and future climate states remain poorly understood due to the complexity of feedbacks within the polar climate system and the dearth of spatiotemporal observations in polar regions.
This session aims to highlight recent advances and identify future directions/opportunities to improve our understanding of Arctic and Antarctic cyclone activity and associated ocean-ice-land-atmosphere interactions in a changing climate.
Conveners welcome presentations on the topics described above that include but are not limited to:
- Novel analyses using data from reanalysis, observational campaigns, and/or remote sensing;
- Advances in understanding cyclone processes and system interactions through modeling studies;
- Projections of future cyclone activity and its interactions with the underlying sea ice and ocean; and
- New insights from employing emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence.
To submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/meetings-events/ams-meetings/2025…
For questions about this session, contact:
Elina Valkonen
Emai: elina.s.valkonen [at] nasa.gov