Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Newsletter Available
    IASC Progress, Spring 2011
    International Arctic Science Committee

  2. New Website and Implementation Plan Available
    Arctic in Rapid Transition

  3. Model Simulations Available
    Community Earth System Model

  1. Newsletter Available
    IASC Progress, Spring 2011
    International Arctic Science Committee

The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) announces that the
summer 2011 issue of IASC Progress is available. Highlights include:

- Indian Research in the Arctic: Collaborative Research on
Ny-Alesund;
- From Carl Weyprecht to the Future Polar Research Institute--A Long
History of Austrian Activities in the Arctic;
- Czech Contributions to Polar Science; and
- The Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) Project.

The newsletter is available on the IASC website, at:
http://iasc.arcticportal.org/index.php/home/service/media/print.

The next edition of the newsletter will be produced jointly with IASC's
sister organization, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
(SCAR). The bipolar issue will include a report on the outcomes of the
Symposium on Research Urgencies in the Polar Regions
(http://www.mna.it/english/News/ICSU_symposium/) and the International
Council for Science (ICSU) General Assembly.

  1. New Website and Implementation Plan Available
    Arctic in Rapid Transition

The Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) Executive Committee announces the
new website and the finalization of the ART Implementation Plan. The ART
network aims to fulfill the need for an improved multidisciplinary and
cross-timescales understanding of climate-related changes in arctic
marine ecosystems. The new website is available at:
http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/ART.

ART's broad focus is on past, present, and future transitions in
sea-ice, and how they are related to changes in marine ecosystems and
biogeochemistry of the Arctic Ocean. ART was initiated in 2008 by early
career scientists and is endorsed by the Marine Working Group of the
International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the former Arctic Ocean
Sciences Board.

ART will be implemented via a three-phase approach. The implementation
approach proposed for ART will partly rely on successful integration and
collaboration with scientific programs that are already active. The
legacy of ART will be a robust set of predictive tools that will
contribute to a reinforcement of arctic marine sciences in global
assessments of impacts of climate change and increased human activity in
the earth system.

The full Implementation plan can be downloaded at:
http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/ART/implementation-plan.

Phase I of ART is beginning now. The development of an active
multi-disciplinary network of scientists required to tackle the
questions highlighted in the ART Science Plan will be achieved through
dedicated science symposia and sessions at international meetings. The
first dedicated ART Science Workshop, "Overcoming challenges of
observation to model integration in marine ecosystem response to sea ice
transition," will be held at the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy
of Sciences (IOPAN) in Sopot, Poland in fall 2012. This workshop will be
open with targeted invited scientists. The central theme will provide
opportunity for reviewing and synthesizing the knowledge required for
the modeling of marine ecosystem processes in relation to changing ice
conditions.

For further information on ART or to subscribe to the ART listserve,
please go to: http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/ART.

  1. Model Simulations Available
    Community Earth System Model

Organizers announce the release of the Community Earth System Model
(CESM) simulations, to be contributed to the IPCC Fifth Assessment
Report.

These include an 1850 pre-industrial control simulation of 1300 years,
ensembles (six members each) of 20th century hindcast runs, and 21st
century runs using four different future scenarios for concentrations of
greenhouse gases. The model data from these simulations are available
through the Earth System Grid, at: http://www.earthsystemgrid.org.

Diagnostics from these simulations are available at:
http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/experiments/cesm1.0.

A one-time registration is required to access the model data. Some
support for running the CESM and assistance with the model data for
arctic and Antarctic scientists is available through the Polar Climate
Working Group (PCWG) community liaisons. Additional information on the
PCWG and the CESM is available at:
http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Polar.