Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Arctic and Mid-latitude Climate and Weather Linkages
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting
31 July-5 August 2016
Beijing, ChinaSave the Date
Meeting on Arctic Air pollution: Exploring Collaborative Frameworks
for Natural and Social Science
14 March 2016
Fairbanks, AlaskaSave the Date
22nd International Symposium on Polar Sciences
10-11 May 2016
Incheon, Republic of KoreaSave the Date
Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet Workshop
7-8 September 2016
Palisades, New York
- Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Arctic and Mid-latitude Climate and Weather Linkages
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting
31 July - 5 August 2016
Beijing, China
Organizers of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society session AS41, entitled
"The linkages between the Arctic climate change and mid-latitude climate
and weather,'" announce a call for abstracts. This session will be
convened at the 2016 Annual Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting,
scheduled for 31 July thru 5 August 2016 in Beijing, China.
Session description: The Arctic temperature has increased faster than
the rest of the world, and the sea ice has declined at the pace never
seen before since the beginning of 21st century. These profound changes
to the Arctic have coincided with a period of ostensibly more frequent
extreme weather events across the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. The
possibility of a link between Arctic change and mid-latitude weather has
spurred research activities that reveal potential linkages between the
two parts of the world. The intent of the session is to further the
understanding of the coupling between Arctic variability and
mid-latitude climate and weather by synthesizing ongoing efforts and
exploring our key gaps.
This session aims to highlight new and emerging efforts focused on
linkage studies based on observations, reanalysis products, and model
simulation results. Papers are welcome on all aspects, particularly
those to assess and synthesize existing knowledge on the links between
Arctic climate change and mid-latitude weather variability including
weather extremes to identify key questions and knowledge gaps with a
particular attention on physical processes and scale interactions
considering the relatively short time period of record and multiple
components included in the hypothesized linkages and to current modeling
efforts on exploring the relationship between Arctic and mid-latitude
weather and climate variability.
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 4 March 2016.
For further information about the meeting or to submit an
abstract, please go to:
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=abstract.htm.
For questions about this session, please contact one of the conveners:
Muyin Wang
Email: Muyin.wang [at] noaa.gov
Phone: 206-526-4532
Xiangdong Zhang
Email: xdz [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Phone: 907-474-2675
Yong Luo
Email: yongluo [at] tsinghua.edu.cn
Phone: +86-10-6278-8891
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Meeting on Arctic Air Pollution: Exploring Collaborative Frameworks
for Natural and Social Science
14 March 2016
Fairbanks, Alaska
Organizers announce a workshop entitled "Arctic Air Pollution: Exploring
Collaborative Frameworks for Natural and Social Science" that will take
place in conjunction with Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW)/Arctic
Observing Summit (AOS) on 14 March 2016, 3:00-6:00 p.m. AKST, in room
202 of the Gruening building on the campus of the University of Alaska
Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The objective of the workshop is to map the breadth of potential
approaches for collaboration between the air Pollution in the Arctic:
Climate, Environment and Societies (PACES) program and Arctic
communities, in particular those related to community monitoring
possibilities. The workshop outcome will be a draft roadmap that
recommends how these collaborations could be put into practice. This
process will hopefully lead to a broader community workshop of
physical/chemical and social science researchers to develop these ideas.
Those include considerations of whether this task can be taken on by
workshop participants or whether a project with a dedicated budget and
personnel is needed to conduct a full scoping study. Priority
geographical areas and scientific topics will be identified, as well as
criteria that help to assess how the expected effort for science/society
collaborations will contribute to the overall PACES objectives related
to improved knowledge about Arctic air pollution and its impacts.
This workshop is organized by the PACES program in partnership with the
International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).
A follow up discussion with a smaller group of participants will take
place in the afternoon on 15 March, 2016.
For more information on the workshop or the PACES project, go to:
http://www.igacproject.org/PACES.
For questions, please contact:
Sandy Starkweather
Phone: 303-402-9408
Email: sandy.starkweather [at] noaa.gov
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22nd International Symposium on Polar Sciences
10-11 May 2016
Incheon, Republic of Korea
The Korea Polar Research Institute announces registration for the 22nd
International Symposium on Polar Sciences. The Symposium will take place
on 10-11 May 2016 in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
The 2016 International Symposium on Polar Sciences is organized in an
effort to understand the accelerating changes in the Arctic and to
reflect on how to prepare for their anticipated impacts, and thus is
entitled "The Future of the Arctic: Science and Governance". Organizers
invite participants to share and discuss the current scientific
achievements and law and policy based efforts which will help guide
future research and observations of the rapidly changing Arctic.
For more information and registration, go to:
https://symposium.kopri.re.kr/.
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Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet Workshop
7-8 September 2016
Palisades, New York
Organizers invite the Arctic community to attend a workshop titled
"Understanding the fundamental processes controlling the surface mass
balance (SMB) of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) and improving
estimates." The Workshop is hosted by the Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory on 7-8 September 2016 in Palisades, New York.
The goal of the workshop is to develop and propose a strategy to improve
estimates of the SMB of the GrIS that build on community input. The
outcomes of the workshop will provide, among other things,
community-driven guidance to funding agencies on targeted research
activities.
For more information and registration, go to:
http://www.cryocity.org/greenland-smb-workshop.html.
Registration Deadline: 15 May 2016.
For questions, please contact:
Marco Tedesco
Email: cryocity [at] gmail.com
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