Cryospheric Sessions
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2006
Vienna, Austria
2-7 April 2006
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 13 January 2006
For further information on the meeting, please go to:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006
Listed below are summary details of some twenty cryospheric sessions
(covering snow, permafrost, glaciers and ice sheets, and sea ice) and
a number of related co-sponsored sessions from other sections. These
sessions will be held at the European Geosciences Union meeting in
Vienna on 2-7 April 2006.
Further details on the sessions can be found:
http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?m_id=29&p_id=1…
CR1: Open session on cryospheric sciences
Convener: G. Gudmundsson
Co-Convener: R. Bindschadler
CR2: Open session on permafrost
Convener: S. Gruber
Co-Convener: B. Etzelmueller
CR3: Applied geophysics in cryospheric sciences
Convener: C. Hauck
Co-Convener: O. Eisen
CR4: Global change: new challenges for assessing glacier and permafrost
hazards (co-listed in NH and CL)
Convener: A. Kaab
CR5: Uncertainty in modelling and observing the cryosphere and its
impact on our understanding
Convener: R. Purves
Co-Convener: J. Corripio
CR6: Seasonal snow cover processes
Convener: R. Essery
Co-Convener: P. Bartelt, P. Etchevers
CR7: Remote sensing of snow cover and sea ice (co-listed in HS)
Convener: M. Tedesco
Co-Convener: A. Loew
CR8: Snow dynamics and snow-atmosphere exchange over Greenland and
Antarctica (co-listed in AS and CL)
Convener: G. Heinemann
Co-Convener: A. Ohmura
CR9: Mountain hydrology and climatology: present state and future
scenarios (co-listed in HS)
Convener: C. de Jong
CR10: Mass and energy balance of snow and ice
Convener: D. Scherer
Co-Convener: B. Brock
CR11/G12: Observations of glaciers and ice sheets from space
(co-organized by G) (co-listed in CL)
Convener: I. Velicogna
Co-Convener: J. Bamber
CR12: Glaciers as indicators of current climate change (co-listed in CL)
Convener: C. Schneider
Co-Convener: A. Kaab, B. Raup
CR13: Modelling ice sheets and glaciers
Convener: R. Hindmarsh
Co-Convener: F. Pattyn
CR14: Structural glaciology: processes, observations, and models
(co-listed in GM)
Convener: N. Glasser
Co-Convener: M. Hambrey
NP2.05/CR15: Nonlinear cryospheric dynamics (co-organized by CR)
Convener: A. Rempel
Co-Convener: C. Schoof
CR16: Ice sheet - climate interactions (co-listed in CL)
Convener: P. Huybrechts
CR17: Evolution of Eurasian ice sheets during the last glaciation
Convener: G. Milne
Co-Convener: I. Shennan, P. Clark
CR18: Large-scale ice-sheet instabilities (co-listed in CL)
Convener: R. Greve
Co-Convener: A. Calov
CR19: Modelling sea ice and ice-ocean interactions (co-listed in OS)
Convener: D. Feltham
Co-Convener: M. Morales Maqueda
CR20: Subglacial environments - properties and processes influencing ice
dynamics
Convener: U. Fischer
Co-Convener: S. Vogel, B. Hubbard
AS2.04: Boundary layers in high latitudes: observations and modeling
(co-listed in CR)
Convener: W. Neff
Co-Convener: S. Argentini, P. Anderson
AS3.08: Trace gas composition and chemistry of the last two hundred years
from firn and ice core measurements (co-listed in CR)
Convener: W. Sturges
Co-Convener: M. Leuenberger, S. Montzka
AS3.09: CHABLIS (Chemistry of the Antarctic Boundary Layer and the
Interface with Snow) (co-listed in CR)
Convener: A. Jones
Co-Convener: K. Clemitshaw, D. Shallcross
CL044: Climate variability and the carbon cycle (past, present, and
future): The EuroCLIMATE Programme on multi-proxy reconstructions and
coupled climate models at European and regional scales (co-listed in BG,
SSP, CR)
Convener: J. Bijma
Co-Convener: B. Avril
G10: Short and long-term observations in polar regions (co-listed in CL
and CR)
Convener: A. Capra
Co-Convener: R. Dietrich, T. Wilson
GM1: Glacial erosion, landscape evolution, and global change (co-listed
in CR)
Convener: C. Stark
HS14: Water management in mountain basins (including environmental flow)
(co-listed in CR)
Convener: R. Ranzi
Co-Convener: G. Bloschl, A. Montanari
NH6.03: Arctic hazards (co-listed in CR and OS)
Convener: I. Lavrenov
Co-Convener: O. Johannessen
NH7.01: Snow cover and avalanche formation (co-listed in CR and GM)
Convener: J. Schweizer
Co-Convener: D. McClung
SSS1: Soils and weathered rocks from microscopic to atomic scale
Towards a chronology of weathering processes (co-listed in BG, CL, CR,
GMPV and GM)
Convener: M. Gerard
Co-Convener: G. Stoops
SSS4: Clay minerals, their properties, and role in soil and weathered
rock (co-listed in BG, CR, GM, and GMPV)
Convener: Z. Zagorski