Dear colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to the session A061: “Extratropical Super Storm Classification, Impacts and Trends” for the AGU Fall Meeting 2020. This session is under the Atmospheric Sciences section with a Physics/Dynamics/Climate focus in key areas of Climate Change and Variability, Multi-Hazards, Extreme Events and Monitoring, Forecasting and Prediction.
We welcome you to submit an abstract and share this announcement with interested colleagues.
As a reminder, the deadline for all submissions is Wednesday, 29 July 23:59 EDT.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105674
Session Description:
Extratropical “super storms” are defined as rare (< 1% annual frequency), highly disruptive storms outside of tropical areas. In this session we invite talks on how to forecast and classify extratropical “super storms”, identify their impacts (both beneficial and harmful), and track trends. These storm events often lead to heavy precipitation, changing snow levels, flooding, avalanches and wind damage. Some may produce intense convective storms, severe tornadoes, large hail, as well as dangerous winter weather. The aim of this session is to share expertise on current atmospheric river and tropical cyclone rating scales using storm climatology (past, present and future) to arrive at a classification scale which can be translated into a real-time warning system, which is reliable for addressing projected human-induced global warming. Case studies, modeling and risk evaluation of “super storms”, and developmental/operational needs from various user groups with a natural hazard focus are all welcome. We aim to include a lively panel discussion.
We hope you will consider joining our session, which will include experts on atmospheric rivers including Marty Ralph and Ruping Mo. The panel at the end requires invited volunteers, so please let us know if you are willing!
Looking forward to reading your abstracts and meeting you at this virtual AGU!
Sincerely,
Melinda Brugman (MSC, ECCC, Vancouver BC)
Matthias Jakob (BGC Engineering, Vancouver BC),
Dale Cox and Michael Dettinger (USGS)
Contact:
Mindy Brugman
Meteorological Services of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Vancouver, BC Email: mindy.brugman@canada.ca
