Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Validation of Polar Climate Processes in Regional and
Large-Scale Models"
European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2009
Vienna, Austria
19-24 April 2009
Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, 13 January 2009
For session information, please go to:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/260
Or contact:
Amy Solomon
Phone: 303-497-4398
Email: amy.solomon [at] noaa.gov
Papers are invited for session CL28, "Validation of Polar Climate
Processes in Regional and Large-Scale Models," being convened at the
European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2009, to be held 19-24 April
2009, in Vienna, Austria. The abstract submission deadline is Tuesday,
13 January 2009.
Average temperatures in the Arctic have risen at almost twice the rate
as temperatures in the rest of the world over the past few decades.
Additional evidence for arctic warming is seen in the widespread melting
of glaciers and sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures. A number of
mechanisms have been hypothesized to play a significant role in causing
this climate change, such as, ice-albedo feedbacks, cloud-radiative
feedbacks, enhanced greenhouse gas release through permafrost melt, and
modifications to atmospheric pathways (among others). Numerous field
experiments are being carried out to provide data to constrain and
validate climate model simulations of the mechanisms that cause polar
climate change.
This session provides a forum on the validation of key processes for
climate occurring in the polar atmosphere in regional to large-scale
atmospheric models. Papers are welcome on radiative, cloud, boundary
layer, aerosol, and surface processes. Particularly encouraged are
papers that apply process-oriented diagnostic techniques to validate
climate feedbacks in polar regions.
To submit an abstract, please follow the link under the session
description at:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/260.
For further information, please contact the session conveners:
Amy Solomon
Email: amy.solomon [at] noaa.gov
Ola Persson
Email: ola.persson [at] noaa.gov
Annette Rinke
Email: annette.rinke [at] awi.de
Michael Tjernstrom
Email: michaelt [at] misu.su.se