Date

Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Polar Regional Weather and Climate Modelling (and Global Relevancy)"
MOCA-09 Joint Assembly, "Our Warming Planet"
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19-29 July 2009

Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 January 2009

For further information, please visit the website:
http://www.iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/99-home_e.shtml


IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS invite the international atmospheric,
oceanographic and cryospheric research community to MOCA-09, their Joint
Assembly on "Our Warming Planet," to be held 19-29 July 2009, in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. More details can be found at:
http://www.iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/99-home_e.shtml.

Organizers of session J02, "Polar Regional Weather and Climate Modelling
(and Global Relevancy)," invite both numerical and observationally based
contributions:
(i) enhancing our understanding of the physical processes regulating
variability of environmental conditions (atmosphere, cryosphere, and
ocean) in the Polar Regions;
(ii) assessing models performance and their uncertainties using results
of the Model Intercomparison Projects (MIPs);
(iii) developing new models and analytical approaches allowing more
accurate reproduction of interaction in the system atmosphere-ice-ocean
or identifying teleconnections showing role of the Polar regions in the
global processes and vice-versa; and
(iv) improving parameterizations of the specific processes in the
atmosphere, ice, or ocean.

Discussions associated with data assimilation
and reconstructions and/or reanalysis of the climatic systems for the
Arctic and Antarctic are welcomed as well. More details on the scope of
this session can be found at:
http://www.iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/J02.shtml

The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is 23
January 2009.

The abstract submission form and further details about the conference
can be found at:
http://www.iamas-iapso-iacs-2009-montreal.ca/e/99-home_e.shtml