34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

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Abstracts are closed! The deadline was 7 September 2020 at 11:59 PM EST.

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The 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Climate Variability and Change.

Call for Papers

The science of climate variability and change encompasses a broad range of space and time scales, and brings together a variety of interrelated disciplines. We welcome submissions on all scientific aspects of climate variability and change, including observational, theoretical, and modeling-based approaches. We particularly encourage submissions to the following themed sessions:

  • African Climate Variability and Change;
  • Atmospheric Rivers: Processes, Impacts, and Uncertainty Quantification;
  • Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture;
  • Causes and Consequences of Polar Amplification;
  • Climate Data Analysis: Monitoring, Trends, and Patterns;
  • Clouds, Radiation, and Climate Sensitivity;
  • Core Science Keynote: Advances in Earth System Models and CMIP;
  • Core Science Keynote: African Climate Research, Recent Progress and Future Directions;
  • Downscaling and Regional Climate Change;
  • Dynamics of Extreme Weather and Climate;
  • El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics, Predictions, and Impacts;
  • Emerging Science from Earth System Models and CMIP6;
  • Land Use and Land Cover Change - Interactions with Weather and Climate;
  • Monsoon Dynamics: Variability, Change and Impacts;
  • Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction and Predictability;
  • Teleconnections, Inter-Basin Interactions, and Global Climate Variability;
  • Walter Orr Roberts Memorial Lecture 

Joint Sessions

  •  Aerosol-climate interactions from regional to global scale (Joint between the 13th Symposium on Aerosol - Cloud - Climate Interactions and the 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change);
  •  Atmospheric Convection and Air-sea Interactions Over the Tropical Oceans (Joint between the 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the Ninth Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability, and the 22nd Conference on Air-Sea Interaction);
  • Climate change and extreme weather events in the coastal zone: the role of ocean-atmosphere-land interaction (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, the 19th Symposium on the Coastal Environment, and the 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change);
  • Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Impacts (Joint between the 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 22nd Conference on Air-Sea Interaction);
  • Interactions Between the Stratosphere and Tropical Convection / Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Predictability and Forecasting: Monsoons and the MJO Part II / Other Topics in Madden-Julian Oscillation (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability and the 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change);
  • Understanding Heat Waves and Addressing the Risks to Human and Animal Health (Joint between the 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 12th Conference on Environment and Health)

Student Award Opportunities

The Climate Variability and Change Committee welcomes abstract submissions from students. Awards will recognize three outstanding oral and three outstanding poster presentations given by students. To be eligible for the awards, you must be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at a university, and you also must be the lead author and presenter of the work. Registrants should indicate their eligibility for student awards when submitting their abstracts.

Conference Contacts

For additional information, please contact the program chairs: Wassila Thiaw (email: [email protected]). and Brian Rose (email: [email protected]).