Storm tracks refer to regions where mid-latitude disturbances at spatial scales of a few thousand kilometers and time scales of a few days are most active. Storm-track processes play a key role in triggering high-impact weather events such as windstorms, heavy precipitation events, cold spells, and heat waves. They also play an active role in the large-scale climate system through the meridional transports of heat, energy, and momentum. A better understanding of storm tracks is essential for improved weather forecasts and our understanding of the atmospheric response to climate change.
The 2022 Storm Track Workshop will bring together scientists from around the world to share research on storm track processes across a range of time and spatial scales. It follows from precursor meetings held in Grindelwald in 2015 and Utö in 2018. As was the case in those meetings, a key goal of the 2022 meeting is to bring together the weather and climate communities to integrate unique perspectives on storm track physics. Topics will range from fine-scale diabatic processes to large-scale atmospheric dynamics. Key foci will include the fundamental physics of storm tracks; the importance of diabatic processes - including cloud radiative effects – in the storm tracks; coupling between the storm tracks and the ocean, the stratosphere, polar and tropical regions; and the response of the storm tracks to climate change.
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