Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Observations of High Latitude Climate Change"
MOCA-09 Joint Assembly
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19-29 July 2009
Application Deadline: Friday, 23 January 2009
For further information, and to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://www.iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/02-abstracts_submission_…
Please direct all queries concerning this session to:
Matthew Lazzara
Email: mattl [at] ssec.wisc.edu
The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
(IAMAS), the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the
Oceans (IAPSO), and the International Association for the Cryospheric Sciences
(IACS) invite the international atmospheric, oceanographic and cryospheric
research community to MOCA-09, their Joint Assembly, to be held 19-29 July
2009, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Session conveners for (J01) "Observations of High Latitude Climate
Change" seek abstract submissions for relevant papers that bring
together observational descriptions of the high latitude regions in the
atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere from 200 years ago to the present.
Topics from both polar regions, as well as from in situ and space based
observing platforms, are the basis for this symposium. New observations
collected via recent efforts, including the International Polar Year
(IPY), International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE), and
other ongoing long-term observational and paleo-climate efforts related
to climate change at the poles, are solicited. In addition,
presentations dealing with observational and data assimilation methods
are welcome. Session conveners are: Matthew Lazzara (IAMAS), Shelley
Knuth (IAMAS), David Reusch (IAMAS), Michael Town (IAMAS), and Peter
Haugan (IAPSO).
Sample topic areas include:
- Ice core observations,
- Mass balance investigations (surface, airborne or satellite based),
- Satellite observations (e.g., altimetry, clouds, icebergs, etc.),
- Ocean monitoring studies (e.g., ARGO, AON, etc.),
- Polar surface observing networks (e.g., Automatic Weather Stations,
ground-based GPS, etc.), and
- Data syntheses from reanalysis.
Abstracts are due Friday, 23 January 2009. Please submit abstracts
online at:
http://www.iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/02-abstracts_submission_…
Questions regarding this session should be directed to:
Matthew Lazzara
Email: mattl [at] ssec.wisc.edu