Climate & Global Dynamics @ 2020 AGU Fall Meeting

CGD will be well represented at this year's AGU Fall Meeting. Take a look at the schedule below to learn about all of the exciting presentations from our scientists.

Presentations & Posters

Monday, December 7 2020

* All times are in Pacific Standard Time (PST)

• • Presenter: Joanie Kleypas | Monday, 7 December 2020 - 04:16
  • Session: SY001: Convergence Research in Climate Science: How to Move Beyond Disciplinary Silos I
  • Abstract: SY001-05: Coral Reefs Are Complex and So Are the Science Disciplines Needed to Save Them
  • Abstract ID: 738872 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Monica Morrison | Monday, 7 December 2020 - 04:22
  • Session: SY001: Convergence Research in Climate Science: How to Move Beyond Disciplinary Silos I
  • Abstract: SY001-07: Using the concept of local epistemology to understand and respond to the challenges of interdisciplinary climate research
  • Abstract ID: 749000 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Peter Lawrence | Monday, 7 December 2020 - 16:40
  • Session: B011: A Decade of Progress in Global Carbon Cycle Science I
  • Abstract: B011-11: Understanding Carbon Dioxide Removal and Management within an Integrated Research Program for Evaluating Climate Intervention Strategies
  • Abstract ID: 746515 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Danica Lombardozzi | Monday, 7 December 2020 - 17:58
  • Session: GC018: Advances in Understanding Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change in a Changing Climate Using Earth System Records and Models I
  • Abstract: GC018-08: Agricultural Fertilization Drives Increased Seasonal Amplitude of CO₂ Exchange
  • Abstract ID: 710372 Meeting Link

Tuesday, December 8 2020

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• • Presenter: Anna-Lena Deppenmeier | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 - 05:46
  • Session: OS012: ENSO Dynamics and Its Influence on Other Basins Based on Theory, Observation, and Modeling I
  • Abstract: OS012-05: Diabatic Ocean Processes Drive La Niña Events
  • Abstract ID: 759539 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: John Fasullo | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 - 07:00
  • Session: A047: CMIP6 Climate Model Evaluation I
  • Abstract: A047-01: Spurious Late Historical-Era Warming in the CESM2 Large Ensemble and Other CMIP6 Simulations
  • Abstract ID: 686134 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Gordan Bonan | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 - 16:10
  • Session: GC032: Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
  • Abstract: GC032-01: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future
  • Abstract ID: 776761 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Clara Deser | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 - 17:30
  • Session: A052: CMIP6 Climate Model Evaluation II
  • Abstract: A052-01: Evaluation of Interannual-to-Decadal Climate Variability in CMIP6 Models Using the New “Climate Variability Diagnostics Package for Large Ensembles”
  • Abstract ID: 708446 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Christina McCluskey | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 - 19:24
  • Session: A054: Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Radiation Studies over the Southern Ocean I
  • Abstract: A054-07: Observation-Enabled Assessment of Simulated Southern Ocean Aerosol and INP Populations in the Community Atmosphere Model Version 6
  • Abstract ID: 752902 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Lucas Laurindo | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 - 21:00
  • Session: A055: Advancing Predictive Understanding of Climate Variability and Change Associated with Air–Sea Interactions and Interbasin Connections I
  • Abstract: A055-06: Role of mesoscale ocean variability in thermodynamic air-sea interactions in multi-century, high-resolution climate simulations
  • Abstract ID: 700936 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Scott Bachman | Tuesday, 8 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: GC010: Dynamics of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies from Regional to Global Scales Under a Changing Climate I Posters
  • Abstract: GC010-0005: The Geometry of Lagrangian Accelerations in Geostrophic Eddies
  • Abstract ID: 682320 Meeting Link

Wednesday, December 9 2020

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• • Presenter: Laura Landrum | Wednesday, 9 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: C021: Integrating Observations and Models to Better Understand a Changing Arctic System III Posters
  • Abstract: C021-0014: Simulated Changes in Arctic Cold Season Surface Heat Fluxes and the Relative Influences of Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Thickness and the Sea Ice Thickness Distribution
  • Abstract ID: 708476 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Monica Morrison | Wednesday, 9 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: GC039: Climate Intervention, Mitigation, Adaptation, and Restoration Solutions: Interdisciplinary Development and Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy III Posters
• • Presenter: Monica Morrison | Wednesday, 9 December 2020
  • Session: GC048: Climate Intervention, Mitigation, Adaptation, and Restoration Solutions: Interdisciplinary Development and Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy I
  • Session: GC049: Climate Intervention, Mitigation, Adaptation, and Restoration Solutions: Interdisciplinary Development and Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy II
• • Presenter: Xian Wu | Wednesday, 9 December 2020 - 17:54
  • Session: OS020: El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate I
  • Abstract: OS020-07: Predicting the Duration of El Niño and La Niña Events during 1954-2015
  • Abstract ID: 707519 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Rich Neale | Wednesday, 9 December 2020 - 20:48
  • Session: A080: Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence I
  • Abstract: A080-03: A Pan-NCAR Large Eddy Simulation and Single Column Model Case Study
  • Abstract ID: 750878 Meeting Link

Thursday, December 10 2020

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• • Presenter: Stephen Yeager | Thursday, 10 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: A090: High-Resolution Climate Modeling on Large Supercomputers II Posters
  • Abstract: A090-0001: A comparison of historical North Atlantic variability in multi-cycle OMIP2 simulations at two different horizontal resolutions
  • Abstract ID: 675763 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Christine Shields | Thursday, 10 December 2020 - 04:00-20:59
  • Session: PP024: Understanding the Terrestrial Hydrological Response to Atmospheric CO2: Lessons from the Cenozoic and Insights into the Future II Posters
  • Abstract: PP024-0002: Atmospheric rivers in the PETM: Importance for cool season precipitation
  • Abstract ID: 666112 Meeting Link

Friday, December 11 2020

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• • Presenter: David Schneider | Friday, 10 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: A113: Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms III Posters
  • Abstract: A113-0013: Do Cloud Feedbacks, Different External Forcing, or Something Else Enhance 21st-Century Warming in the Latest Generation of an Earth System Model?
  • Abstract ID: 734144 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Marika Holland | Friday, 10 December 2020 - 05:58
  • Session: C039: Coupled-System Processes of the Central Arctic Atmosphere–Sea Ice–Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models II
  • Abstract: C039-08: The simulated influence of snow on sea ice in a coupled climate model
  • Abstract ID: 686634 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Andrew Gettelman | Friday, 10 December 2020 - 16:00
  • Session: A130: Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms II
  • Abstract: A130-01: Processes Controlling Extratropical Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity from the Micro to Global Scale
  • Abstract ID: 679929 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Jiang Zhu | Friday, 10 December 2020 - 16:12
  • Session: A130: Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms II
  • Abstract: A130-04: Constraining the climate sensitivity in CESM2 through simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum
  • Abstract ID: 687805 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Deepak Cherian | Friday, 10 December 2020 - 16:40
  • Session: OS033: Toward Improvement in Process Understanding and Modeling of the Tropical Pacific I
  • Abstract: OS033-07: Off-equatorial deep cycle turbulence forced by Tropical Instability Waves in the equatorial Pacific cold tongue
  • Abstract ID: 705955 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Dan Whitt | Friday, 10 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: OS030: Toward Improvement in Process Understanding and Modeling of the Tropical Pacific II Posters
  • Abstract: OS030-0005: Large eddy simulations of upper-ocean turbulence across the equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue
  • Abstract ID: 711411 Meeting Link

Monday, December 14 2020

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• • Presenter: Angie Pendergrass | Monday, 14 December 2020 - 04:28
  • Session: H132: New Approaches to Characterize, Model, and Detect Precipitation Variability: Scientific and Practical Applications I
  • Abstract: H132-08: Why precipitation variability is challenging (and interesting)
  • Abstract ID: 729237 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Christine Shields | Monday, 14 December 2020 - 07:00
  • Session: Stronger Together: How to Build a Science Policy Community
• • Presenter: Gokhan Danabasoglu | Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:16
  • Session: PP038: Advances in Understanding Meridional Overturning Circulation from Past to Future: Insights from Multiple Approaches I
  • Abstract: PP038-05: Revisiting AMOC Transport Estimates from Models and Observations
  • Abstract ID: 677043 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Aixue Hu | Monday, 14 December 2020 - 12:02
  • Session: PP039: Advances in Understanding Meridional Overturning Circulation from Past to Future: Insights from Multiple Approaches II
  • Abstract: PP039-09: Role of AMOC in transient climate response to greenhouse gas forcing in two coupled models
  • Abstract ID: 755012 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Isla Simpson | Monday, 14 December 2020 - 19:00
  • Session: A169: Extratropical Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability I
  • Abstract: A169-01: Emergent Constraints on the Large Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Regional Hydroclimate: Do They Still Work in CMIP6 and How Much Can They Actually Constrain the Future?
  • Abstract ID: 729189 Meeting Link

Tuesday, December 15 2020

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• • Presenter: Dan Amrhein | Tuesday, 15 December 2020 * Poster
  • Session: PP041: Advancing Paleoclimatology by Combining Models and Data III Posters
  • Abstract: PP041-0005: How much of the uncertainty in paleoclimate reconstructions arises from uncertain climate physics? Quantifying structural uncertainties with an application to the Last Millennium
  • Abstract ID: 739933 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Andrew Gettelman | Tuesday, 15 December 2020 - 05:38
  • Session: GC105: Process-Oriented Diagnostics for Weather and Climate Models I
  • Abstract: GC105-03: Process Oriented Diagnostics for High Frequency Impact Events: Bringing the Weather Scale to Climate
  • Abstract ID: 679904 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Xian Wu | Tuesday, 15 December 2020 - 05:56
  • Session: U017: Student Engagement to Enhance Development: Outstanding Student Presentation Award Winners from Fall Meeting 2019 VII eLightning
  • Abstract: U017-08: Duration of El Niño and La Niña Events: Dynamics and Multiyear Predictability
  • Abstract ID: 677329 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Katie Dagon | Tuesday, 15 December 2020 - 19:24
  • Session: H188: Machine Learning in Hydrologic Forecasting I
  • Abstract: H188-07: Bayesian Calibration with Neural Network-Based Emulation of a Land Model
  • Abstract ID: 755863 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Will Wieder | Tuesday, 15 December 2020 - 20:58
  • Session: B106: Surface–Atmosphere Interactions: From Single Flux Measurements to Integrated Synthesis I
  • Abstract: B106-08: Enabling real time scientific discovery by connecting measurements from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) with models from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
  • Abstract ID: 749692 Meeting Link

Wednesday, December 16 2020

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• • Presenter: Alice DuVivier | Wednesday, 16 December 2020 - 06:12
  • Session: C065: Sea Ice Change and Variability: Implications for the Climate and Indigenous Communities of High-Latitude Systems II eLightning
  • Abstract: C065-15: Changing sea ice in Antarctic coastal polynyas in the Community Earth System Model (CESM)
  • Abstract ID: 684778 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Sally Zhang | Wednesday, 16 December 2020 - 19:20
  • Session: GC129: Large-Scale Atmosphere–Ocean Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change I
  • Abstract: GC129-06: Is there a tropical response to observed Southern Ocean warming and cooling?
  • Abstract ID: 682217 Meeting Link

Thursday, December 17 2020

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• • Presenter: Katie Dagon | Thursday, 17 December 2020 - 07:16
  • Session: GC134: Deep Learning for Climate Science and Extreme Weather Prediction I
  • Abstract: GC134-05: Applying Machine Learning to Associate Precipitation Extremes with Synoptic-Scale Weather Events
  • Abstract ID: 757210 Meeting Link
• • Presenter: Maria Molina | Thursday, 17 December 2020 - 07:20
  • Session: GC134: Deep Learning for Climate Science and Extreme Weather Prediction I
  • Abstract: GC134-06: Challenges with Machine Learning Interpretability as shown by a Climate Study
  • Abstract ID: 765112 Meeting Link