Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Sea Ice Processes and Properties
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
14-18 December 2009
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 3 September 2009
For further information, please contact:
Danny Feltham
Email: dlf [at] copm.ucl.ac.uk
Jenny Hutchings
Email: jenny [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Organizers of Session C11, "Sea Ice Processes and Properties," announce
a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 14-18 December 2009, in San
Francisco, California.
Session organizers welcome studies of the processes (physical, chemical,
and biological) that affect the properties of sea ice (e.g., optical
properties, permeability, strength) and its mass balance (e.g.,
thickness, extent, concentration). Suitable topics include, but are not
limited to, microbial communities, gas exchange, sea ice thermodynamics
(including melt ponds and under ice ponds), brine transport, radiative
transfer and albedo, snow distribution, interaction with the atmospheric
and oceanic boundary layers, redistribution of ice in mechanical
deformation, mechanical failure and rheological behavior, and the role
of tides. Organizers particularly welcome studies that show how
observations can lead to improved models of sea ice processes.
Recent years have seen a dramatic reduction in the extent and thickness
of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and parts of the Southern Ocean, with
diverse and important implications at regional and global scales. The
inability of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth
Assessment Report (AR4) climate models to accurately predict these
changes suggests the need for more accurate representation in models of
processes affecting sea ice. This session turns attention to sea ice
(including its snow cover), and its close interactions and feedbacks
with the atmosphere and ocean. Developing new understanding and improved
models of sea ice processes requires input from submarine, field,
aerial, and satellite observations; laboratory experiments; numerical
modeling and sensitivity studies; and fundamental theory.
The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Thursday, 3 September 2009, at 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time. To submit
an abstract, you must enter the first author's current AGU member ID and
password. To submit an abstract, please go to:
http://agu-fm09.abstractcentral.com/.
For further information, please contact:
Danny Feltham
Email: dlf [at] copm.ucl.ac.uk
Jenny Hutchings
Email: jenny [at] iarc.uaf.edu