Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
"Arctic Ocean Circulation and Sea Ice: Present and Future"
MOCA Joint Symposium '09
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19-24 July 2009
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 23 January 2009
For further information, please go to:
http://www.moca-09.org/e/J05.shtml
The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
(IAMAS), the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the
Oceans (IAPSO), and the International Association for the Cryospheric
Sciences (IACS) invite submissions to session J05, "Arctic Ocean
Circulation and Sea Ice: Present and Future," to be held at the MOCA
Joint Assembly, 19-24 July 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(http://www.moca-09.org). The abstract submission deadline is Friday, 23
January 2009.
Session Description:
The Arctic Ocean has undergone large changes during the last decades
including several pulses of warmer inflowing Atlantic water, huge area
extent variations of the low salinity surface layer, and a general
decline in summer ice extent, with an extreme in 2007 when about 40% of
the basin was ice free in August. In this perspective, it is likely that
further changes will occur in the future and may give a dramatic impact
on marine life and human activities, such as exploration of natural
resources and merchant shipping.
Another type of change has been intensified research activity with a
seemingly ever-increasing data stream from research ships, satellites,
drifting platforms, and moorings, including an extra peak during the
International Polar Year 2007-2008. There has also been an increased
number of theoretical studies utilizing observations and models. This
ongoing research provides much better knowledge of the present ocean
circulation and sea ice conditions, but it also opens possibilities to
make realistic projections into the future.
This session has a relatively broad theme and invites both numerical and
observationally based contributions 1) enhancing our understanding of
the present ocean circulation and sea ice conditions in the Arctic, and
2) enhancing our understanding of the future ocean circulation and sea
ice conditions in the Arctic.
This session is being convened by: Goran Bjork (IAPSO), Marika Holland
(IAPSO), Bruno Tremblay (IAPSO), and Manfred A. Lange (IACS). The
abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is Friday,
23 January 2009.
For further information, including details on how to submit an abstract,
please go to: http://www.moca-09.org/e/J05.shtml.