Session Announcement
Modelling Sea Ice and Ice-ocean Interactions (CR19)
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/
In the upcoming European Geoscience Union General Assembly in Vienna,
Austria there will be a session entitled Modelling Sea Ice and Ice-ocean
Interactions (CR19).
Description
A common point of agreement between simulations of climate change is the
large response that takes place in the polar regions. The complex
interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and ice shelves are
responsible for this significant high-latitude climate change response.
For example, although climate models predict large changes in the arctic
sea ice extent in response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations
in the atmosphere, the magnitude and spatial structure of the response
differs between the models. Without doubt, the various representations
of sea ice dynamics, thermodynamics, and upper mixed layer of the ocean
are partly responsible for this situation. In this session we welcome
papers that cover the latest developments in sea ice modelling,
including topics such as melt ponds, ridging schemes, leads and
polynyas, studies on the ice-ocean interactions including deep water
formation and the halocline, to studies based on general circulation
models of the ocean or climate that address how the representation of
sea ice impacts on the model results.
If you are interested in submitting a paper or poster for this session,
please note that the abstract submission deadline is Friday, 13 January
2006.
For details on abstract format and other aspects of the meeting, please
visit:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/
Conveners:
Daniel Feltham, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling
Miguel A. Morales Maqueda, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory