Call for Papers
Coupled Cryosphere/Ocean/Atmosphere Systems
SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference
8-11 July 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract Deadline: Friday, 15 February 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/
Papers are invited for "Coupled Cryosphere/Ocean/Atmosphere Systems"
(session 2.1) being held at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic
Research (SCAR) / International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) IPY Open
Science Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 8-11 July 2008.
Session Description:
The climates, and thus the cryosphere, of the Arctic and Antarctic are
governed by the large scale modes of atmospheric variability such as the
Northern and Southern Annular Modes (NAM/SAM), and the El Ni-Southern
Oscillation that is manifested in high latitudes by the Pacific-North
American and Pacific-South American (PNA/PSA) patterns. The impacts of
the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal
Oscillation will also be explored. The session will concern how these
patterns are changing and affecting high latitude climate and
cryosphere, how the different modes interact and the mechanisms by which
this occurs, the roles of high latitude versus tropical forcing, the
roles of the ocean and sea ice cover in initiating and/or amplifying
change, stratospheric versus tropospheric causes of variability and
change, and the issue of natural versus anthropogenic forcing. Mass
balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and their contribution
to global sea level in response to climate change will be explored.
Contributions are solicited from all approaches that bear on these
topics, such as observational analyses from field data, remote sensing,
reanalyses or ice-core records, theoretical studies, and all types of
numerical modeling.
For more information, please contact:
David Bromwich
E-mail: bromwich.1 [at] osu.edu
T. Motoi
E-mail: tmotoi [at] mri-jma.go.jp
To submit an abstract for this and other sessions, please go to:
http://www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/