MS03-A: Persistent patterns in atmospheric flows: Heat Waves and atmospheric blockings
Organizers: Rupert Klein, Sebastian Reich, Daniel Baum, Stephan Pfahl
This minisymposium is split into two parts:
Abstract:
Significant atmospheric phenomena, such as fronts, cyclones, and heat waves, stand out amongst the daily ups and downs of the weather. They are well recognizeable owing to their specific spatial structure and their longevity relative to the ubiquitous much faster transients associated, e.g., with the convection and turbulent processes that constitute them. They are "persistent" in this sense, and it is this persistence that makes these structures identifiable in observational or simulation data and particularly accessible to theoretical analysis, efficient numerical approximation, and data-based tracking or modelling. This minisymposium collects reports from such diverse approaches towards improved scientific understanding of these often severe weather patterns.