Event Detail | July 5 – 7, 2008
Improving Ice Sheet Models WorkshopSt. Petersburg, Russia
For further information, please go to:
http://www.scar.org/researchgroups/physicalscience/icesheets.html
Or contact:
Cornelis van der Veen
Email: cjvdv@ku.edu
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The current generation of prognostic ice-sheet models fails to adequately capture rapid and non-linear responses of the polar ice masses to environmental forcings, such as dramatic increase in ice discharge following weakening and disintegration of buttressing ice shelves and ice tongues. While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged the potential importance of ice-dynamical effects, processes that could render the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets more vulnerable to future warming are not incorporated into forecasts of future sea-level rise, primarily because of limited understanding of the processes involved. To address these issues, a workshop has been scheduled immediately prior to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research / International Arctic Science Committee (SCAR/IASC) Open Science Conference, to be held 8-11 July 2008, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The workshop will be held 5-7 July 2008, in St. Petersburg, and will involve one day of invited presentations, one day of discussions and writing in break-out groups, and a half-day of concluding plenary discussions. Workshop organizers anticipate bringing together some 50 participants from diverse disciplines including glaciology, high-latitude oceanography and meteorology, and geophysics, representing both modeling and observational communities. Limited funding is available to supplement the additional days of accommodation in St. Petersburg.
A Russian visa is required to attend the workshop. To obtain an invitation letter and a visa, applicants must register for both the workshop and the SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference, even if s/he plans only to attend the workshop.
For further information about the workshop, please go to:
http://www.scar.org/researchgroups/physicalscience/icesheets.html
To register and for further information about the SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference, please got to:
http://www.scar-iasc-ipy2008.org/
Or contact:
Cornelis van der Veen
Email: cjvdv@ku.edu
