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J01 |
Observations of High Latitude Climate Change
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Convenors: |
Matthew Lazzara (IAMAS), Peter Haugan (IAPSO), Shelley Knuth (IAMAS), David Reusch (IAMAS), Matthew Sturm (IACS), Michael Town (IAMAS) |
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Speakers: |
| Mark Serreze, National Snow and Ice Data Center, USA |
| Eric Steig, University of Washington, USA |
David H. Bromwich, Ohio State University, USA |
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This symposium aims to bring together observational descriptions of the high latitude regions in the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere from 200 years ago to the present... more |
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| Polar Regional Weather and Climate Modeling (and Global Relevancy) |
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Convenors: |
Annette Rinke (IAMAS), John Cassano (IAMAS) David Holland (IACS), Andrey Proshutinsky (IAPSO) |
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Speakers: |
John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, UK
| John Walsh, International Arctic Research Center, USA |
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Description: |
The coincidence of rapid change in Arctic climate (extreme 2007 decline in sea ice and recent unprecedented warming) and enhanced observational activities during the IPY offers hope that these changes will be documented in great detail ...more |
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International Polar Year – Early Results |
Convenors: |
Michel Béland (IAMAS), Ian Allison (IACS), Karen Heywood(IAPSO) |
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Speakers: |
| Liz Thomas, British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Alex Orsi, Texas A&M, USA |
Jean-Claude Gascard, LOCEAN, France
| Hayley Hung, Environment Canada |
| Aurélie Bouchard, MeteoFrance |
| Thor Erik Nordeng, Norwegian Meteorological Institute |
| Steve Ackley, University of Texas, USA |
| Bob Bindschadler, Goddard Space Fligfht Centre, NASA |
| Jon Ove Hagen, University of Oslo, Norway |
James Drummond, Dalhousie University, Canada |
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This symposium provides the first opportunity after the official end of the observing period of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 (1 March 2007 to 1 March 2009) to report new results from IPY projects... more |
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J04 |
The Contribution of Greenland and Antarctica to Fresh Water Input to the Ocean and Sea Level Change |
Convenors: |
Eric Rignot (IACS), Thierry Fichefet (IAPSO), Jonathan Bamber (IAMAS) |
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Speakers: |
Ralf Greve, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
David Holland, New York University, USA |
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Key uncertainties remain regarding the future reaction of climate, ice sheets and the carbon cycle to anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing. Paleoclimatic reconstructions offer a framework against which climate, ice sheet and carbon cycle models can be tested ... more |
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J05 |
Arctic Ocean Circulations and Sea Ice: Present and Future |
Convenors: |
Göran Björk (IAPSO), Marika Holland,(IAPSO), Manfred Lange (IACS), Bruno Tremblay (IAPSO) |
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Speakers: |
| James Overland, NOAA, Seattle |
| Mary-Louise Timmermans, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
| Bert Rudels, Finnish Institute of Marine Research |
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Description: |
The Arctic Ocean has undergone large changes during the last decades including several pulses of warmer inflowing Atlantic water, huge area extent variations of the low salinity surface layer and a general decline in summer ice extent, with an extreme in 2007 when about 40% of the basin was ice free in August ... more |
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J06 |
Abrupt Changes in the Climate System |
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Andreas Schmittner (IACS), Andrew Bush (IAMAS), Richard Wood (IAPSO) |
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Description: |
Paleoclimate proxy records clearly show that the climate system does not always change gradually. Abrupt changes have been documented both at high and low latitudes and involve all components of the climate system: ice, ocean, atmosphere and biosphere ... more |
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J07 |
Comparison of Projected Future Climate Change to Warm Intervals in Earth History |
Convenors: |
Alan Haywood (IAMAS),
Arne Winguth (IAPSO),
Eric Wolff (IACS) |
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Speakers: |
| Jerry McManus, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA |
| Paul Valdes, University of Bristol, UK |
| Harry Dowsett, US Geological Survey |
| Bette Otto-Bliesner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA |
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Description: |
IPCC (2007) scenarios for future climate change suggest that by the later part of this century global annual mean temperatures may increase by 1.1 to 6.4°C ... more |
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J08 |
Ice Cores in Paleoclimate |
Convenors: |
Valérie Masson-Delmotte (IACS), Kumiko Goto-Azuma (IACS), Elisabeth Schlosser (IAMAS) |
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Speakers: |
| David Bromwich, Ohio State University, USA |
| David Fisher, Geological Survey of Canada |
| James White, University of Colorado, USA |
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Description: |
Ice cores offer unique archives of multiple indicators of past glaciological, climatic and environmental changes. Measurements conducted in borehole and ice cores can provide crucial information regarding the dynamics of polar ice sheets and put constraints on their past extension ... more
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Interannual and Interdecadal Climate Variability and Predictability with Special Sessions on
Chaos and Nonlinearity in the Climate System Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Edward N. Lorenz |
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Clara Deser (IAMAS), Klaus Dethloff (IACS), Paul Kushner (IAMAS), Shoshiro. Minobe (IAPSO) |
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Speakers: |
| Ichiro Yasuda, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Judith Perlwitz, CIRES, USA |
| Shang-Ping Xie, University of Hawaii, USA |
| Ben Kirtman, University of Miami, USA |
| Fei Fei Jin, University of Hawaii, USA |
| Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA |
Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia University, USA
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Description: |
Although climate predictions are demanded on increasingly fine regional scales, the climate system is dominated on interannual-to-decadal timescales by large-scale patterns that control regional climate ... more |
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Climate Sensitivity, Climate Feedbacks and Regional Responses to Global Forcing |
Convenors: |
Natalia Andronova (IAMAS), Peter Jansson (IACS), Hans W. Linderholm (IACS), Andrew Weaver (IAPSO) |
Invited Speakers: |
George Boer, Environment Canada, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada
Kirsten Zickfeld, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Alex Hall, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
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Description: |
Understanding and predicting changes in the climate system is a scientific goal for avoiding unwanted and abrupt changes ... more |
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Climate Model Intercomparison |
Convenors: |
Vladimir Kattsov (IAMAS), Neil Holbrook (IAPSO), Vladimir Kattsov (IACS) |
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Speakers: |
| René Laprise, Centre ESCER, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| Peter Gleckler, PCMDI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
| Andreas Oschlies, Leibniz Institute of Marine Science (IFM-GEOMAR), University of Kiel, Germany |
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Description: |
The ability of a model to accurately simulate observations is a critical test of model integrity, performance and potential predictive skill ... more |
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Regional Climate Modelling |
Convenors: |
René Laprise (IAMAS), Jens Christensen (IACS), Markus Meier (IAPSO) |
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Speaker: |
| Gudfinna Adalgeirsdottir, Danish Climate Centre |
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Description: |
Increasingly Regional Climate Models (RCMs) evolve towards Regional Earth System Models, coupling interactively the atmospheric, oceanic and land components. Contributions are invited on model development including the coupling of components of the climate system, such as regional ocean and sea ice, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles... more |
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Biogeochemistry and Climate |
Convenors: |
Denise Smythe-Wright (IAPSO), Leif Anderson (IAPSO), John P. Burrows (IAMAS), Melissa Lafrenière (IACS) |
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Speakers: |
| Martin Heimann, Max Plank Institute, Jena, Germany |
| Douglas Wallace, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany |
| Julie LaRoche, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany |
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Description: |
Global climate change is being driven by anthropogenic modification of the atmospheric composition primarily by the release of long lived greenhouse gases by the combustion of fossil fuels but also by the generation of short lived greenhouse constituents, resulting from air pollution and changes in land usage. However the response of the terrestrial and oceanic biospheres to climate change is highly non linear and inadequately understood... more |
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Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Boundary Layers and Interactions |
Convenors: |
Günther Heinemann (IACS), Don Perovich (IAPSO), Ian Renfrew (IAMAS) |
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Speakers: |
Jörg Hartmann, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine
Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
| William Neff, NOAA/OAR, USA |
| David Bromwich, Bird Polar research Center, USA |
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Description: |
In polar regions, boundary layers and their interaction with the surface can be studied under unique conditions. Investigations can be performed for a variety of boundary layer phenomena, such as thermal internal boundary layers, katabatic winds, stable and strong convective boundary layers under near-ideal conditions... more |
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High Latitude Terrestrial Processes, Hydrology, and Interactions with the Atmosphere |
Convenors: |
John Pomeroy (IACS), Richard Essery (IAMAS) |
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Description: |
In high latitudes, the state of the land surface snow, ice and water resources are strongly controlled by complex interactive processes that govern exchange between the climate, snow, lake ice, permafrost and hydrology ...more |
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Remote Sensing – Use of Products in Cryospheric, Atmospheric and Oceanographic Investigations |
Convenors: |
Christian Haas (IACS), Christian Haas (IAPSO), Stella Melo (IAMAS) |
Invited
Speakers: |
| C. T. McElroy, Environment Canada |
| Roger DeAbreu, Canadian Ice Service, Ottawa, Canada |
| Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA |
Roger Marchand, Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, USA |
Description: |
The cryosphere, atmosphere, and oceans are key elements of the global climate system, and show strong evidence of the present rapid climate change... more |
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Monsoon Observations, Modelling and Prediction |
Convenors: |
Takehiko Satomura (IAMAS),
Jianping Li (IAMAS),
Jay McCreary (IAPSO) |
Invited
Speakers: |
| Peter Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| Gabriel. A. Vecchi, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA |
| Behera Swadhin, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
| DongXiao Wang, South China Sea Institute, China |
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Description: |
The scientific importance of the monsoons cannot be overemphasized. They impact climate, both regionally and globally, and interact with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) modes of climate variability... more |
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Natural Hazards (Atmosphere, Ocean and Ice) |
Convenors: |
Uwe Ulbrich (IAMAS), Andreas Kääb (IACS), Jean Palutikov (IAMAS), Richard E. Thomson (IAPSO) |
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Description: |
Understanding and forewarning of natural hazards are among the most important challenges facing the world community... more |
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Tropical Cyclones |
Convenors: |
Roger K. Smith (IAMAS), Michael Montgomery (IAMAS),
Fumin Ren (IAMAS), Liguang Wu (IAPSO) |
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Speakers: |
| Noel Davidson, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia |
| Tom Knutson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, New Jersey, USA |
| Michael T. Montgomery, Naval Postgraduate School California, USA |
Lynn K. (Nick) Shay,
University of Miami,
Florida, USA
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Chun-Chieh Wu,
National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
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Description: |
Tropical cyclones are the most destructive weather systems on the planet and are awe-inspiring coherent vortex structures .. more |
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Atmospheres and Ices of Terrestrial Planets |
Convenors: |
Dimitri Titov (IAMAS),
Athéna Coustenis (IAMAS),
Kathryn E. Fishbaugh (IACS), Ralf Greve (IACS),
Christine Schott Hvidberg (IACS) |
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Speakers: |
| R. Orosei, IFSI, Rome, Italy |
| H. Vali, McGill University, Canada |
Ernst Hauber, DLR-Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
David Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, USA
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Description: |
Papers are invited on the physics and chemistry of the lower, middle and upper atmosphere, ionosphere and surface ices of the inner planets and comets ...more |
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Advances in Data Assimilation for Earth System Science |
Convenors: |
Richard Swinbank (IAMAS), William Lahoz (IAMAS), Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli (IAPSO), Mu Mu (IAMAS), Andrew Roberts (IACS) |
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Speakers: |
| Laurent Bertino, NERSC, Norway |
| Hendrik Elbern , Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| Pierre Gauthier, Université du Québec à Montréal, (UQAM), Canada |
| Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, USA |
| Pierre Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
Zhiyong Meng, Pekin University, China
| Saroja Polavarapu, Environment Canada, Canada |
Mark Buehner, Environment Canada, Canada
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Description: |
Data Assimilation is a key technique in Earth Science, allowing the exploitation of the vast quantity of measurements of the Earth System ... more |
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IAMAS Symposia
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Middle Atmosphere Science |
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Responsible commission: ICMA |
Convenors: |
Shigeo Yoden, Gregory Bodeker, Daniel Marsh, Charles McLandress, Ross Salawitch |
Invited
Speakers: |
| Theodore Shepherd, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, USA |
| Rolando Garcia, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA |
| Kaoru Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Saroja Polavarapu, Environment Canada, Canada |
| Elisa Manzini, Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy |
| Kaley Walker, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Markus Rex, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
| Marc von Hobe, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany |
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Description: |
Papers related to any aspect of the dynamics, chemistry, or physics of the atmosphere from near the tropopause to the lower thermosphere are appropriate for this session... more |
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Climate Processes in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere |
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Responsible commission/program: ICMA/SPARC |
Convenors: |
Laura Pan, Martin Dameris, Piers Forster
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Speakers: |
| Neal Butchart, Meteorological Office, UK |
| Paul Konopka, FZJ, Germany |
| Lesley Gray, University of Reading, UK |
| Greg Bodeker, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand |
| Karen Rosenlof, NOAA, USA |
| Ian Folkins, Dalhousie University, Canada |
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Dynamical, chemical and radiative processes in the upper troposphere and stratosphere play an important role in the Earth’s climate system .. more |
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The Impact of Solar Variability on Earth |
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Responsible commissions/association/program: ICMA, IRC, IAGA, SPARC |
Convenors: |
Ulrike Langematz, Victor Fomichev, Joanna D. Haigh, Lon L. Hood, Alexei Krivolustsky, Werner Schmutz, Tom Woods |
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Speakers: |
| Greg Kopp, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, U.S.A. |
| Wolfgang Finsterle, Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos (PMOD), Switzerland |
| Gerard Thuillier, CNRS-SA, France |
| Yvonne Unruh, Imperial College, U.K. |
| Bernd Funke, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain |
| Kirill Semeniuk, York University, Canada |
| Hauke Schmidt, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany |
| Lesley Gray, Reading University, U.K. |
| Katja Matthes, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Kunihiko Kodera, Nagoya University, Japan |
| Warren White, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A. |
| David Rind, NASA GISS, USA |
Ulrich Cubasch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Raimund Muscheler, Lund University, Sweden
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The session will address all aspects of the impact of solar variations on the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. These include:.. more |
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Solar UV Radiation |
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Responsible commission: IRC |
Convenors: |
Peter Köpke, Mario Blumthaler, Nataly Chubarova
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Speakers: |
| Ann Webb, University of Manchester, U.K. |
| Tom McElroy, Environment Canada |
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Description: |
This symposium invites papers with the focus on: new methods for the determination of Solar UV radiation from ground and from space, development of UV instruments and networks.. more |
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Stratosphere-Troposphere-Ocean Coupling in Climate - Top Down or Bottom Up? |
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Responsible commissions: ICDM/ICMA |
Convenors: |
Theodore G. Shepherd, Ulrich Cubasch, Adam Scaife
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Speakers: |
| Julie Arblaster BMRC, Australia and NCAR |
Stefan Brönnimann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
| Isla Simpson, Imperial College, UK |
| Judith Perlwitz, NOAA, USA |
| Andrew Marshall, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK |
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| Doug Smith, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK |
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| Michael Sigmond, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Kuni Kodera, University of Nagoya, Japan |
| Katja Matthes, Free University of Berlin, Germany |
| Noel Keenlyside, Kiel University, Germany |
| Chiara Cagnazzo, CEMCC, Bologna, Italy |
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There is a growing body of evidence that the stratosphere actively couples to the troposphere, although the mechanisms for this coupling are only partly understood. They involve dynamical, physical and chemical processes covering a range of scales.. more |
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Theoretical Advances in Dynamics |
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Responsible commission: ICDM |
Convenors: |
Eyal Heifetz, Theodore G. Shepherd, Nili Harnik, Hisashi Nakamura |
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Speakers: |
| Tapio Schneider California Institute of Technology, USA |
| Volkmar Wirth, University of Mainz, Germany |
| Richard Scott, St. Andrews University, UK |
| Edwin P. Gerber, New York University, USA |
| Shigeo Yoden, University of Kyoto, Japan |
| Sukyoung Lee, Penn State University, |
| Adam Sobel, Columbia University, USA |
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Description: |
This session focuses on the application of geophysical fluid dynamics theory to the understanding of the atmospheric circulation, with emphasis on synoptic to planetary scale atmospheric circulations, both in the troposphere and stratosphere... more |
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Towards Seamless Probabilistic Forecasting |
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Responsible commission: ICDM |
Convenors: |
Craig Bishop, David Frame
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Roberto Buizza, ECMWF, Reading, UK
David Frame, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Jean-Philippe Duvel, LMD, Paris, France
Pieter L. Houtekamer, Environment Canada, Dorval, Canada Clifford Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Tim Palmer, ECMWF, Reading, UK
Richard Swinbank, Met Office, Exeter, UK
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Description: |
Ensemble methods are becoming increasingly popular for both the analysis of observations and for quantifying uncertainties in forecasts for both the atmosphere and ocean ... more |
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Dynamics and Predictability of High-Impact Weather |
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Responsible commission: ICDM |
Convenors: |
Istvan Szunyogh, Richard Swinbank
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Speakers: |
Edmund Chang, Stony Brook University, USA
Mel Shapiro, CIRES/NOAA University of Colorado and National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
Yucheng Son, Plurality/EMC/NCEP/NOAA
Patrick Harr, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Huw C. Davies, Institute for Atmospheric & Climate Science, Switzerland
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This symposium invites papers on all aspects of the dynamics of severe weather events on synoptic scales and smaller, and their predictability on one-day to sub-seasonal timescales... more |
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Topographic Effects on Weather and Climate |
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Responsible commission: ICDM |
Convenors: |
Ronald B. Smith, Kenneth S. Gage, Zhe-min Tan
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Speakers: |
Akiyo Yatagai, Research Institute for Humanity & Nature, Japan
Kenichi Ueno, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Jon Egill Kristjansson, University of Oslo, Norway
Sylvain Mailler, CNRS - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France
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This symposium invites contributions based on observational (including diagnostic), theoretical and numerical studies of the Earth’s topography on atmospheric circulation, weather and climate ... more |
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Tropical Waves and Circulations and Tropical-Midlatitude Interactions |
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Responsible commission: ICDM |
Convenors: |
Brian Mapes, Richard Grotjahn, Michael Blackburn
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Speakers: |
| Brian Hoskins, Imperial College and Reading University, UK |
| George Kiladis, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, USA |
Hisashi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hartmut Borth, University of Hamburg, Germany
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Description: |
This symposium invites contributions regarding convectively-coupled tropical waves and tropical circulations ... more |
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Dynamical Implications of Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions |
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Responsible commissions:
ICDM /ICCP |
Convenors: |
Wojciech Grabowski, Johannes Quaas
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Invited
Speakers: |
| Robert Wood, University of Washington, USA |
Teruyuki Nakajima, CCSR/University of Tokyo, Japan
Barnaby Love, University of East Anglia, UK
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Description: |
Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions take place on a wide range of spatial scales, from the cloud microscale to the atmospheric general circulation ... more |
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Relations Between Aerosols and Ice Formation in Clouds: Measurements and Modelling |
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Responsible commission: ICCP |
Convenors: |
Paul J. DeMott, Ottmar Möhler
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Speakers: |
| Allan Bertram, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Joachim Curtius, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany |
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| Andrew Heymsfield, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA |
| Ulrike Lohmann, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland |
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Description: |
Understanding and predicting initiation of ice in clouds and its potential relation to the changing state of atmospheric composition remain as enigmatic topics ... more |
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Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation-Precipitation Interactions |
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Responsible commissions: IRC, ICCP, ICACGP |
Convenors: |
Ulrike Lohmann, George A. Isaac, Guang-Yu Shi, Teruyuki Nakajima |
Invited
Speakers: |
| Joyce Penner, University of Michigan, USA |
| Zev Levin, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Howard Barker, Environment Canada |
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Description: |
Clouds exert major influences on both shortwave and longwave radiation as well as on the hydrological cycle. Small changes in the amount, altitude...more |
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3D Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere |
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Responsible commission: IRC |
Convenors: |
Robert F. Cahalan, Bernhard Mayer
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Speakers: |
Tamas Varnai, University Of Maryland, USA
Jean-Luc Widlowski, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
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Description: |
We invite papers on modeling and observations involving three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) applications to the Earth's atmosphere and surface (vegetation, land and sea ice)... more |
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Atmospheric Composition Change: Air Pollution in the Global Environment
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Responsible commission: ICACGP |
Convenors: |
Maria Kanakidou, David Edwards, John Burrows, Kimitaka Kawamura, Young J. Kim |
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Speakers: |
| Tong Zhu, Peking University, China |
| Jos Lelieveld, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany and The Cyprus Institute,Cyprus |
Yugo Kanaya, Frontier Research Center for Global Change,
Yokohama, Japan |
Description: |
The symposium will investigate the tropospheric composition, how this is altered by human activities and the natural variability of the environment and the impact of these changes on air quality and climate. ...more |
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Thunderstorms and their Manifestation on Local, Regional and Global Scales |
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Responsible commission: ICAE |
Convenors: |
Earle Williams, Serge Soula, Colin Price |
Invited
Speakers: |
| Joseph R. Dwyer, Florida Institute of Technology, USA |
| Zen Kawasaki, Osaka University, Japan |
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Description: |
New developments in the observation of thunderstorms span the electromagnetic spectrum: In the X-ray and gamma ray domain (for detection of energetic radiation presumed to be caused by runaway electrons in thunderstorm fields), in the VHF domain (for detailed lightning structure and comparison with radar and in situ measurements of storms), in the VLF region (for regional lightning studies over land and over ocean, including hurricanes), and in the ELF region (for studies of the global circuit and the extraordinary lightning flashes that produce sprites, elves and haloes in the mesosphere...more |
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Lightning: Characteristics, Physics, and Hazard Mitigation |
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Responsible commission: ICAE |
Convenors: |
Vladimir Rakov, Christian Bouquegneau, Daohong Wang
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Speakers: |
| Osmar Pinto, INPE - National Institute for Space Research, Brazil. |
| Nick Demetriades, Vaisala, USA |
Farhad Rachidi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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| Weitao Lu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China |
Yang Zhao, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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Description: |
Lightning can be defined as a transient, high-current (typically tens of kilo-amperes) electric discharge whose length is measured in kilometers...more |
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Comparative Atmospheres of the Giant Planets and their Satellites |
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Responsible commission: ICPAE |
Convenors: |
Athéna Coustenis, Darrell F. Strobel, Hojatollah Vali
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Speakers: |
| P. Lavvas, University of Arizona, USA |
M. Flasar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA
Kevin Hand, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Padadena, USA
Darrell Strobel, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Sushil Atreya, University of Michigan, USA
Orton Glenn, California Institute Of Technology, USA
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Papers are invited which report progress on all aspects of our current understanding of the evolution of atmospheres of the outer planets, their moons and their interactions with their environment (rings, magnetosphere, surfaces)...more |
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IAPSO Symposia
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P01 |
Mesoscale Ocean Eddies |
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This symposium is co-sponsored by IABO |
Convenors: |
William Crawford, Michael Stacey, Sinjae Yoo |
Invited
Speakers: |
| Anya Waite, University of Western Australia |
Bo Qiu, University of Hawaii, USA
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Description: |
Mesoscale eddies impact most oceanic processes, from heat, salt, momentum and biochemical fluxes to biological productivity... more |
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P02 |
Effects of Climate Variability on Nearshore Coastal Environments: Physical, Geomorphologic and Biological Interactions |
Convenors: |
Maria Cintia Piccolo, Bo Gustafsson, Arnoldo Valle Levinson |
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Speaker: |
Robin Davidson-Arnott,
University of Guelph, Canada |
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This symposium has now been expanded to include P08 |
Description: |
Coastal habitats are highly vulnerable to variability in the earth's climatic conditions. They are affected by physical factors such as sea level rise, changes in frequency and strength of storms, variations in wave and current patterns, fluctuations in salinity-temperature, and storm surges... more |
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Argo and Operational Oceanography |
Convenors: |
Howard Freeland, John Gould, Temel Oguz, Toshio Suga |
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| Toshio Yamagata, University of Tokyo and JAMSTEC, Japan |
Harold Ritchie, Environment Canada, Dartmouth NS, Canada
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This full-day session will focus on the opportunities being offered by the new real-time data systems that permit research on the evolution of the oceans on a large scale, as well as the observation and assessment of ocean state for the generation of products which carry distinct social benefits ...more |
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Overflows and Abyssal Currents |
Convenors: |
Gordon Swaters, James B. Girton |
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Speakers: |
| Ilker Fer, University of Bergen, Norway |
| Sonya Legg, Princeton University, USA |
| Jack Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
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Density-driven flows over sills and grounded baroclinic currents are important components of the abyssal portion of the meridional overturning circulation... more |
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Physics and Chemistry of the Oceans: General Topics |
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Eugene Morozov, Silvia Blanc, Leo Maas, Gregorio Parrilla |
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| Michael J. Buckingham, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA |
| Trevor McDougall, CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research, Australia |
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The symposium is planned to discuss the new results of research in physical and chemical oceanography concerning circulation, water masses and their interaction, currents, wind waves, internal waves, tides, and other phenomena in different regions of the ocean ... more |
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Ocean Mixing Processes and Consequences |
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Barry Ruddick, Robin Muench, Anna K. Wåhlin |
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| Claudia Cenedese Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
James Ledwell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA |
Lars Umlauf, Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Germany
Jody Klymak, University of Victoria, Canada
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Diapycnal and horizontal ocean mixing ranges from exchange processes near the surface and bottom to slower interior mixing processes, affecting ocean circulation and large-scale heat transport so important to climate ... more |
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The Southern Ocean: Its Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Links to the Global Climate System |
| Convenors: |
Zhaomin Wang, Isabelle Ansorge |
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Speakers: |
| Sarah Gille, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA |
| Karen Heywood, University of East Anglia, UK |
| Michael Meredith, British Antarctic Survey, UK |
| Dorothee Bakker, University of East Anglia, UK |
| Mike Lucas, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Eberhard Fahrbach, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
Steve Rintoul and Serguei Sokolov, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Hobart, Australia |
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The Southern Ocean is important in the global climate system due to its large heat uptake and carbon storage ... more |
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Coastal Currents and Large Marine Ecosystems |
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Tarsicio Antezana, Kimberly Hyde |
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| Edmo J.D. Campos Instituto Oceanografico da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil |
This symposium has now been combined with P02 |
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This symposium will discuss how western and eastern boundary and other coastal currents (and their variability) affect and drive large marine ecosystems, their physics, chemistry, biology and fisheries... more |
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Deep Ocean Exchange with the Shelf |
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John Johnson, Piers Chapman |
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Speakers: |
| Ken Brink, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA |
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| Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
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The exchanges and fluxes that occur near the shelf break are important parts of the global ocean circulation. Better understanding of the exchanges between the shelf and the deep ocean will improve the interpretation of observations and is needed for more realistic modelling of climate, the carbon cycle, sedimentation and marine ecosystems... more |
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The Variable Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation – Characteristics, Causes and Consequences for Climate |
| Convenors: |
Torsten Kanzow, Lisa Beal |
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Speakers: |
| Bogi Hansen, Faroese Fisheries Laboratory, Faroe Islands |
| Arne Biastoch, IFM-GEOMAR, Germany |
| Susan Lozier, Duke University, USA |
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In carrying large amounts of heat northward, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an important element of the time-variable coupled climate system... more |
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Understanding Cryospheric Change in Canada |
Convenors: |
Greg Flato |
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Michael Demuth, Department of Natural Resources, Canada |
Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada |
Claude Duguay, University of Waterloo, Canada |
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Terry Prowse, Environment Canada and University of Victoria, Canada |
Diane Lavoie, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
Christian Haas, University of Alberta, Canada |
Derek Mueller, Trent University, Canada
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Toni Lewkowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Humfrey Melling, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Canada
David Burgess, Natural Resources Canada, Canada
Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College, USA
Gregory Flato, University of Victoria, Canada
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This symposium will provide a synthesis of current understanding of the drivers, processes and feedbacks involved in cryospheric variability and change in Canada... more |
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Mountain and Forest Snow Cover: Climatology, Interactions and Processes |
Convenors: |
Christoph Marty, Peter Bebi, Richard Essery |
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Danny Marks, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, USA
Steven Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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The unique physical properties of snow have a profound and rapidly varying influence on the seasonal snow cover in mountain and forest areas...more |
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Snow and Ice Mechanics and Microstructure |
Convenors: |
Ilka Hamann, Thomas Kämpfer |
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Speakers: |
| Takeo Hondoh, Hokkaido University, Japan |
| Ian Baker, Dartmouth College, USA |
Jacques Meyssonnier, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, France |
| Jo Jacka, Australian Antarctic Division |
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Precise knowledge of the mechanics of ice and snow is essential for the correct understanding of the geomorphological processes taking place in cold regions.. more |
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Changes in Glaciers in Different Climate Regimes |
Convenors: |
Liss Andreassen, Bruce Raup |
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Graham Cogley, Trent University, Canada |
Andreas Kääb, University of Oslo, Norway |
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The mass balance of glaciers is determined by the relative amounts of snow accumulation and ablation, and is therefore sensitive to changes in these climatic variables...more |
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Changes in Continental Snow Cover, Lake and River Ice |
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Convenors: |
Claude Duguay, Allan Frei |
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Speakers: |
Terry Prowse, Environment Canada and University of Victoria, Canada |
David Robinson, Rutgers University, USA |
Jia Wang, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, USA
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Snow and freshwater ice are sensitive indicators of climate variability and change, as well as drivers of climate variability due to their feedback on the surface energy budget... more |
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CO6 |
This symposium has been cancelled and all papers submitted
to it have been distributed to other appropriate symposia |
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