Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to be convening the session “Assessing Regional Climate Signals From Southern South America: Modern and Paleo Efforts” at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting 2018 held on 10-14 of December in Washington D.C., USA. Please consider contributing an abstract to this session at the AGU website (https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/welcome/) by the deadline of Wednesday, 1 August 23:59 EDT, 2018. We would be very thankful if you would circulate this session to your colleagues and students. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any further question.
Looking forward to seeing you all in Washington DC,
Sergio Contreras (scontreras@ucsc.cl)
Josef Werne (jwerne@pitt.edu)
Session ID: 46805
The influence of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds (SWW) on the modern climate of Southern South America [SSA] (south of 30°S) is well known. The SWW, in combination with the N-S orientation of the Andes, are responsible for vegetation gradients with latitude and elevation, which likely varied in the past as a function of the strength and location of the SWW. Models project a poleward shift and intensification of the SWW as a result of global warming, superimposed on natural climate variability that is less well understood in this vast area with sparce meteorological data. Thus, we need to turn to paleoclimate proxy records to gather data on climate variability and help validate future climate projections in the region. This session invites researchers in diverse fields, including proxy development and modeling using marine and continental records, to examine modern and past climate in SSA.
Primary Section/Focus Group: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
SWIRL Theme: Climate
Index Terms: 0458 Limnology [BIOGEOSCIENCES] / 0473 Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography [BIOGEOSCIENCES] / 1854 Precipitation [HYDROLOGY] / 1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Invited speakers:
Dr. Frank Lamy (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany)
“Late Quaternary dynamics of the Southern Westerlies over southern South America and link to paleoceanographic changes in the South Pacific”
Dr. Iván Pérez (i-mar Center, Universidad de Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Chile)
“Time-scale variability of surface wind in the Eastern South Pacific Ocean and expected changes in ocean-atmospheric dynamics”.
