2016 Winter WG Meeting Presentations | CVCWG What caused the recent "warm Arctic, cold continents" trend pattern in winter temperatures? Lantao Sun Seasonal contrasts in Northern Hemisphere tropospheric waveguide teleconnections Grant Branstator The influence of ocean surface currents on the atmospheric circulation Zaiyu Wang Model diversity in future wintertime circulation change in the North Pacific Isla Simpson Diagnosing global ocean content changes in historically forced CMIP simulations Peter Gleckler Is the detection of accelerated sea level rise imminent? John Fasullo Projected 21st century sea surface temperatures: Changes in the mean, variability and extremes Michael Alexander Intermittency of precipitation in CESM and observations Kevin Trenberth Comparing the atmospheric response to volcanic eruptions against internal variability in the NCAR large ensemble Marie McGraw Response of ENSO events to higher CO2 forcing: Role of nonlinearity Dezheng Sun The predictability of the duration of La Nina in CESM1 Pedro DiNezio Using the CESM large ensemble to project future changes in the distribution and impacts of eastern North American snowstorms Colin Zarzycki Diagnosing high and low temperature events with a dynamical adjustment technique Flavio Lehner Potential reemergence of seasonal soil moisture anomalies in North America Matthew Newman Changes in the shape of summer temperature distributions and the probability of extremes Karen McKinnon