Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts - EGU General Assembly

Date

5 January 2015

Multiple Session Announcements and Calls for Abstracts
European Geoscience Union General Assembly
12-17 April 2015
Vienna, Austria

Abstract deadline for all sessions: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Polar Climate Predictability and Prediction
Disciplinary Sessions: CL3.4/AS1.4/CR6.5/OS1.9
Soils in Mountain Environments
Disciplinary Session: SSS0.4
Soils in Boreal and Polar Regions
Disciplinary Session: SSS0.5
Rapid Changes in Sea Ice: Processes and Implications
Disciplinary Session: CR1.2

Polar Climate Predictability and Prediction
Disciplinary Sessions: CL3.4/AS1.4/CR6.5/OS1.9

Organizers of session CL3.4/AS1.4/CR6.5/OS1.9, "Polar Climate
Predictability and Prediction," announce a call for abstracts. The
session will be convened at the European Geociences Union (EGU) General
Assembly, 12-17 April 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

The Arctic sea ice cover and many other elements of the cryosphere are
experiencing significant changes over the modern observational era. The
polar climate is crucial for the Earth's energy and water budget, and
its variability and change have direct socio-economic impacts. However,
most of climate models are not yet in position to provide us with
accurate predictions of polar climate. We welcome presentations
advancing understanding of the mechanisms that control polar climate
variability on sub-seasonal to multi-decadal timescales and climate
change. We encourage submissions that examine sources of polar climate
predictability in a hierarchy of models, and that link polar processes
and predictions with mid- and low-latitude climate. We look forward to
studies using remote sensing data, field observations, proxy data,
theory and numerical models encompassing climate projections, reanalysis
products and forecast systems. This session aims to further the
connection between the atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric research and
operational communities.

The abstract submission deadline for this and all other sessions is
Wednesday, 7 January 2015. To submit an abstract, please follow the
instructions at:
http://www.egu2015.eu/abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html.

For more information, please contact:
Neven Fuckar
Email: neven.fuckar [at] ic3.cat

Soils in Mountain Environments
Disciplinary Session: SSS0.4

Organizers of session SSS0.4, "Soils in Mountain Environments," announce
a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the European
Geociences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 12-17 April 2015 in Vienna,
Austria.

This session is focused both on present-day and past soils in temperate
mountain regions. Soils in mid-latitude regions play a decisive role on
the environmental dynamics of the terrestrial ecosystem. A wide range of
soil processes occur in mountain temperate regions, taking into account
that most of world's population live at the foot of these mountains. The
impact of human activity in some areas has been substantial and has
affected the natural dynamics of soil processes by increasing soil
erosion and remotion, changes of the land use, agriculture activities,
fires, etc. In other mountains, the recent warming has impacted the
thermal state of the ground, which may have major implications for slope
stability.

The study of paleosols and recent dynamics are a source of information
to identify different aspects of landscape dynamics at different time
scales. A wide range of geomorphic processes (glacial, fluvial, karst,
debris flows, rock avalanches), volcanic activity, aeolian deposition,
human impact, etc. has been inferred based on the study of paleosols and
recent soils in sedimentary sequences from mountainous environments.
Over the last years the geochronology of the past record has been
improved, contributing to the reconstruction of landscape evolution and
better understanding of recent environmental dynamics in mountain
regions.

The aim of the session "Soils in mountain regions" is to bring to light
the state of progress in knowledge in the study of present-day and past
soil processes in these areas. Researchers involved in these topics are
kindly invited to submit an abstract for this session.

For more information, please contact:
Marc Oliva
Email: oliva_marc [at] yahoo.com

Soils in Boreal and Polar Regions
Disciplinary Session: SSS0.5

Organizers of session SSS0.5, "Soils in Boreal and Polar Regions,"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the
European Geociences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 12-17 April 2015 in
Vienna, Austria.

Soils in polar and boreal regions play a decisive role on the
environmental dynamics of the terrestrial ecosystem. Some of these areas
have experienced very significant warming trends during the last
decades, resulting in change of the dynamics of these soils with
implications on the environment system.

Changes on the processes affecting polar and boreal soils may have
significant consequences on the climate system (e.g. methane emissions,
carbon cycle). Soils in these environments can be also strongly affected
by climate (e.g. permafrost thawing, wildfires) and human activities
(e.g. pollution), with possible major implications for human settlements.

A better understanding of the natural processes and human activity is
important to understand the dynamics of polar and boreal soils and their
feedbacks within the terrestrial ecosystems. The aim of the session
"Soils in polar and boreal regions" is to bring to light the state of
progress in knowledge of soils in these regions, considering human and
natural dynamics.

For more information, please contact:
Marc Oliva
Email: oliva_marc [at] yahoo.com

Rapid Changes in Sea Ice: Processes and Implications
Disciplinary Session: CR1.2

Organizers of session CR1.2, "Rapid Changes in Sea Ice: Processes and
Implications," announce a call for abstracts. The session will be
convened at the European Geociences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 12-17
April 2015 in Vienna, Austria.

In 2012 the Arctic summer sea ice extent was the lowest in satellite
history, exceeding the previous low in 2007. In fact, the last six years
(2007 to 2012) have seen the six lowest Arctic summer sea ice extents in
the continuous satellite history. While the changes in the Southern
Ocean sea ice cover have not been so dramatic, there has been a
redistribution of sea ice and a slight net increase in recent years.

The scientific community is investing considerable effort in organising
our current knowledge of the physical and biogeochemical properties of
sea ice, exploring poorly understood sea ice processes, and forecasting
future changes of the sea ice cover.

In this session, organizers invite contributions regarding all aspects
of sea ice science and sea ice-climate interactions, including snow and
sea ice thermodynamics and dynamics, sea ice-atmosphere and sea
ice-ocean interactions, sea ice biological and chemical processes, and
sea ice models. A focus on emerging processes and implications is
particularly welcome.

For more information, please contact:
Andrew Wells
Email: Wells [at] atm.ox.ac.uk

ArcticInfo is administered by the Arctic Research Consortium of the
United States (ARCUS). Please visit us on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.arcus.org/

At any time you may:

Subscribe or unsubscribe by using the web form located at:
http://www.arcus.org/arcticinfo/subscription.html

To be removed from the list at any time send an email to:
arcticinfo-unsub [at] arcus.org

To resubscribe send an email to:
arcticinfo-sub [at] arcus.org

Subscribers to ArcticInfo will automatically receive the newsletter,
Witness the Arctic.If you would prefer not to receive Witness the Arctic,
specify on the web form.

Subscribe and unsubscribe actions are automatic. Barring mail system
failure you should receive responses from our system as confirmation to
your requests.

If you have information you would like to post to the mailing list send
the message to: list [at] arcus.org

You can search back issues of ArcticInfo by content or date at:
http://www.arcus.org/arcticinfo/arcticinfo_search.html

If you have any questions please contact the list administrator at:

list [at] arcus.org

ARCUS
3535 College Road, Suite 101
Fairbanks, AK 99709-3710
907-474-1600
907-474-1604 (fax)

ArcticInfo is funded by the National Science Foundation as a service to
the research community through Cooperative Agreement ARC-0618885 with
ARCUS. Any information, opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the information
sources and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science
Foundation or ARCUS.