Fall AGU Session on the Southern Ocean

Are you attending the Fall AGU meetin in San Fransisco? You could attend a session A065: The Southern Ocean: Clouds, Aerosols and the Air-Sea Interface

Convenors: C. Bretherton (U. Washington), C. Jakob (Monash U.), P. Quinn (NOAA/PMEL), R. Weller (WHOI)

This session brings together observational and modeling research on clouds, aerosols and air-sea interaction over the sparsely observed Southern Ocean. Here, climate models underestimate low cloud, confront uncertainties in cloud-nucleating aerosol concentrations and ice/mixed phase processes, and often overpredict wind stress, affecting cloud feedbacks and precipitation globally.  Solicited topics include cloud characteristics (vertical distribution, phase, precipitation, radiative interaction), aerosol transport/sources/sinks, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, air-sea coupling (including interannual and longer variability), their relevance to climate model biases or climate change, and key knowledge gaps/opportunities.