Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting
21-26 February 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana
Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions
Abstracts are currently being accepted for sessions during 2016 Ocean
Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 21-26 February 2016 in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time Wednesday, 23 September 2015. Specific criteria and
instructions for submitting abstracts are available online, at
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions.
Conveners of the following two sessions invite abstract submissions:
- Session 9626: "The Beaufort Sea in Transition: Responses to Climate
Change and Human Impacts"
Session Chairs: John Trefry, Bodil Bluhm, and Jeremy Kasper
Session Description: This session seeks to bring together recent
research in the Beaufort Sea spanning small to large temporal and
spatial scales, and including disciplinary and interdisciplinary
research. The Beaufort Sea comprises a seasonally ice-covered and
comparatively shallow shelf characterized by the strong influence of
productive waters from the Chukchi Sea in the west and high riverine
inputs along the entire shelf, peaking in the east with the Mackenzie
River. Over a steep slope, shelf waters interact with the complex
hydrography of the deep Canada Basin. This interface between the coast
of North America and the open Arctic Ocean is experiencing sea ice
retreat, increased coastal erosion, enhanced primary productivity and
upwelling, and oil and gas exploration. Organizers welcome scientists
from all disciplines of the ocean-science community to submit abstracts
for this session to help advance our knowledge of the status and
processes that define this critical interface and its response to
climate change and human impacts. Organizers are especially interested
in abstracts that link aspects of circulation, primary productivity,
nutrient and carbon chemistry, arctic contaminants and/or the structure
and function of biological communities to environmental forcing factors.
For questions about this session, contact John Trefry (jtrefry [at] fit.edu).
For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9626.
- Session 9313: "Predicting changes in the Arctic Sea Ice cover using
coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean-wave modeling"
Session Chairs: Richard Allard and Gregory Smith
Session Description: This session will address Arctic sea ice prediction
with an emphasis on coupled modeling systems (e.g., ocean-ice,
atmosphere-ocean-ice, atmosphere-ocean-ice-wave). The heat and
freshwater storage in the upper ocean plays a large role in the melt and
re-freeze of the ice in the Seasonal Ice Zone. What are the impacts of
ocean-ice feedbacks and the role of ocean initialization (with and
without waves) on sea ice prediction? How should snow cover be
represented in ice modeling systems? What are the methods to quantify
and assess model skill (forecast verification) in coupled modeling
systems? What is the present status of sea ice prediction on multi-day
to seasonal and annual lead times? Also of interest are developments in
sea ice modeling relevant for high-resolution simulations, such as
improved rheologies and form drag parameterizations.
For questions about this session, contact Richard Allard
(richard.allard [at] nrlssc.navy.mil).
For further information and to submit an abstract to this session, go
to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9313.
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