CLIVAR OSC Poster Awards
Early career scientists and students attending the CLIVAR 2016 Open Science Conference and presenting posters were eligible to be considered for outstanding poster awards. A team of over 50 senior and early career scientists reviewed the 234 qualifying posters and recommended the following award winners.
CLIVAR2016 Open Science Conference
Poster Competition: Outstanding Award
Martin Puy, LOCEAN/IPSL
Session 2.1 Intraseasonal to Interannual
The Role of Westerly Wind Events in the Contrasted 2014 and 2015 El Niño Evolution
Annika Reintges, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Session 2.2 Decadal Climate Variability & Predictability
Sub-decadal North Atlantic Oscillation Variability in Observations and the Kiel Climate Model
Fumiaki Ogawa, University of Bergen
Session 3.2 Ocean and Climate Dynamics
Impact of Oceanic Front on the Ozone-Induced Stratosphere/Troposphere Coupling of the Southern Annular Mode
Presented in Poster Cluster: Extratropical Frontal- and Meso-scale Air-sea Interaction
Nils Brueggemann, Delft University of Technology
Session 3.2 Ocean and Climate Dynamics
Tracing the Sinking of Dense Ocean Waters in the North Atlantic Ocean
Valentine Ochanda, University of The Witwetersrand, South Africa
Session 4.2 Sea Level
Shoreline Integrated SLR Change Prediction in Mombasa and Lamu Islands in Kenya
CLIVAR2016 Open Science Conference
Poster Competition: Awards of Excellence
Rondrotiana Barimalala, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Indian Ocean Biophysical Variability in the CMIP5-ESM Models
Leandro Diaz, University of Buenos Aires
Observed and Simulated Summer Rainfall Variability in Southeastern South America
Tina Dippe, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Reducing the Sea Surface Temperature Bias in the Kiel Climate Model to Improve the Representation of Atlantic Niño Variability and Dynamics
Jonathan Durgadoo, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
The Indian Ocean as a Connector
Shuang Gao, University of Bergen
Impact of Riverine Nutrients on Global Marine Biogeochemistry in a Change Climate
Shijian Hu, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Observed Strengthening of Inter-basin Exchange via the Indonesian Seas Due to Rainfall Intensification
Shineng Hu, Yale University
The Extreme El Niño of 2015: The Role of Westerly and Easterly Wind Bursts and the Preconditioning by the Failed 2014 Event
Mio Terada, Hokkaido University
Dynamic Sea Level Changes in the Western North Pacific in Response to Global Warming Using CMIP5 Models
Yueyue Yu, Florida State University
Relationship between Warm Airmass Transport into the Upper Polar Atmosphere and Cold Air Outbreaks in Winter
Xiaolin Zhang, Florida State University
Connecting Equatorial Pacific Surface Currents, Warm Water Volume and El Niño Prediction
