GC123
High-Latitude Earth Systems: Their Local Responses to and Impacts on Global Climate Change I

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 07:00-08:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Conveners:  Renu Joseph, US Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, United States, Milena Veneziani, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Chairs:  Milena Veneziani, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
07:00
Impact of atmospheric processes on mechanisms of Southern Ocean heat uptake (766966)
Ariel Morrison, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Hansi Alice Singh, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada and Phil Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
07:04
The role of polar gyres in the Southern Ocean overturning circulation (762061)
Earle Wilson, California Institute of Technology, Earth Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andrew F Thompson, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, Shantong Sun, California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, United States and Andrew Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
07:08
Impact of Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting on the Abyssal Southern Ocean (719449)
Alessandro Silvano1, Annie Foppert2, Stephen R Rintoul3, Paul Holland4, Takeshi Tamura5, Noriaki Kimura6, Pasquale Castagno7, Pierpaolo Falco7, Giorgio Budillon8, Alexander Haumann9, Alberto Naveira Garabato1 and Alison M Macdonald10, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (3)Commonwealth Scientic and Industrial Research Organization Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (4)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (6)University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Japan, (7)Universita Parthenope, Naples, Italy, (8)Univ di Napoli Parthenope, Napoli, Italy, (9)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (10)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
07:12
Impact of mid-latitude/polar winds on Antarctic sea ice and tropical climate (711519)
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Lettie Roach, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Aaron Donohoe, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Qinghua Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
07:16
Drivers and Impacts of Southern Ocean Polynyas in High-Resolution Earth System Models (Invited) (736483)
Wilbert Weijer1, Prajvala Kurtakoti1, Zachary Kaufman2, Milena Veneziani1, Achim Stössel3, Nicole Feldl4 and Mathew E Maltrud1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
07:20
Maud Rise and Weddell Sea Polynyas in High-Resolution CESM-iHESP simulations (676371)
Xiliang Diao1,2, Achim Stössel1,2, Ping Chang1,2, Gokhan Danabasoglu2,3, Stephen G Yeager2,3, Shaoqing Zhang2,4 and Hong Wang2,4, (1)Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)International Laboratory for High-Resolution Earth System Prediction (iHESP), College Station, TX, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
07:24
High-latitude surface-atmosphere radiative coupling in the far-IR: missing physics in climate models and opportunities in future observations (686746)
Xianglei Huang1, Xianwen Jing2, Yi-Hsuan Chen1 and Ping Yang3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
07:28
Montreal Protocol to delay ice-free Arctic by a decade (675476)
Mark England, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States; University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States and Lorenzo M Polvani, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States
07:32
Discussion