Joint Symposia at Perugia Led by IAMAS

JMS001: Our Changing Planet

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO

This is a continuation of Union Symposium U1, and contains contributed papers. First Monday afternoon is dedicated to fluids and addresses global change originating in the atmosphere (including the magnetosphere), the oceans, and the hydrosphere (including land ice). Topics will include trace gas induced global warming, the role of the oceans in climate variability and change, the stability of the cryospheric, etc.

The second Monday afternoon is dedicated to solid Earth processes and the Earth’s deep interior. Topics in this area may include the physics of the earthquake source mechanism, the geodetic monitoring of tectonic deformation, the style of the mantle convection process and the physics of the Earth’s core, including the dynamo process and the mechanism(s) of field reversal

Convener

Designated:

W.Richard Peltier,

Dept of Physics,

University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7;

Tel (416)-978-2938;

Fax (416)-978-8905;

e-mail: peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS002: Earth System Interactions

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS

This symposium is a continuation of Union Symposium U10, and comprises contributed papers. Contributions are expected on cutting edge simulations and analyses of observations of the Earth system and the interactions among its components in the past, present, and projected to occur in the future. Situations of particular interest include the factors and processes affecting the interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, ice and land. Also welcome are contributions addressing human-induced changes that alter climate, contributed to the apparent stability of the pre-industrial climate and led to glacial cycling, and that prevailed during past climatic conditions that were warmer than at present

Convener

Designated:

Guy Brasseur,

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie;

Bundesstr. 53, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany;

Phone: +49-40-41173-421;

Fax: +49-40-41173-430;

e-mail: brasseur@dkrz.de

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS003: Satellite Observations: Products and Applications

Total abstracts submitted: 3

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 3 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAGA, IAG, IAHS, IAPSO, UCCS

Starting with the launch of Tiros-N in 1978, satellite observations have revolutionized our view of the Earth and other planets. Observational techniques have been incorporated into many activities, often being used in unanticipated ways. Satellite observations are now a vital part of many scientific, industrial and social activities affecting many discipline areas and have had a significant impact in studies of many issues, both societal and scientific. This symposium will bring together practitioners from a number of fields to celebrate the success of this endeavor and to demonstrate new and exciting uses for these data. It will consist of both invited and contributed papers on a wide range of topics covering all aspects of space-based observations

Convener

Designated:

James R. Drummond,

Department of Physics,

University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A7, Canada;

ph: 1 416 978 4723;

fax 416 978 8905;

e-mail: james.drummond@utoronto.ca

Co-Convener

Designated:

Eric Rignot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (eric.rignot@jpl.nasa.gov)

HungLung Allen Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (allen.huang@ssec.wisc.edu)

David Hudak, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Division, Environment Canada; (David.Hudak@ec.gc.ca)

Michael D. King, EOS Senior Project Scientist, Earth-Sun Exploration Division, (michael.d.king@nasa.gov)

Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (llf@pacific.jpl.nasa)

JMS004: Intercontinental Transport of Substances and its Consequences

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO

“What comes around goes around” is one way to express the phenomenon of long-range transport of pollution from continent to ocean to continent, often reaching far around the world. Examples of intercontinental transport of non-welcome substances include dust, soot, sulfate aerosols, ozone, CO, and a number of reactive trace gases having lifetimes in the atmosphere of days to weeks. Sources can include megacities and extended urbanized regions as well as eroding and unvegetated land. Pollutant plumes can leave one continent and cross an ocean or even return to the same continent after extended travel over the oceans. This symposium invites papers on issues regarding the long-distance transport of pollution of all sorts, including studies carried out based on observations, field experiments, and models

Convener

Designated:

Anne Thomson,

Dept of Meteorology,

510 Walker Building,

University Park, PA 16802 USA;

Tel: (814) 865-0479;

e-mail: anne@met.psu.edu

Co-Convener

Designated:

Robbie W. Macdonald, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Institute of Ocean Sciences, (macdonaldrob@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca)

JMS005: Aerosols, Biomass Burning and Precipitation

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IGAC

This session will explore recent progress in our understanding of the interactions between atmospheric aerosols and biomass burning, and precipitation and their implications for the Earth's climate. We encourage contributions of the role of aerosols on the formation and evolution of water and ice clouds, on the impact of aerosols on cloud microphysical properties, and especially on the processes that lead to the formation of precipitation. The session encourages presentations on the implications of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions for climate and atmospheric chemistry. The presentations will include reports on field campaigns and laboratory studies, theoretical investigations, and modeling studies at all scales

Convener

Designated:

Ulrike Lohmann,

Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science,

ETH Zurich, Universitätsstr. 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;

ph: +41 44 633 0514;

fax +41 44 633 1058;

e-mail: ulrike.lohmann@env.ethz.ch

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS006: Glacial-Interglacial Cycles: New Records, Analyses, and Modelling

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO, UCCS

Water stable isotopes in snow and ice are precious tools to reconstruct past climatic changes; they can be also implemented into atmospheric, oceanic and ice sheet models. We encourage contributions showing new isotopic records from both precipitation and ice in polar and high altitude regions, as well as contributions showing new modeling results and interpretations of precipitation isotopic composition

Convener

Designated:

Valerie Masson-Delmotte,

IPSL CEA CNRS UMR 1572,

Bat 701 L'Orme des Merisiers CEA Saclay,

91 191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France:

phone (33) (0) 1 69 08 77 15;

Fax: (33) (0) 1 69 08 77 16;

e-mail: valerie.masson@cea.fr

Kumiko Goto-Azuma,

National Institute of Polar Research,

1-9-10 Kaga,Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8515, Japan,

Tel: +81-3-3962-3275,

Fax: +81-3-3962-5719,

kumiko@pmg.nipr.ac.jp

Co-Convener

Designated:

Barbara Stenni, University of Trieste, Department of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences, (stenni@univ.trieste.it )

Andrew Weaver, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, (weaver@uvic.ca)

JMS007: Stable Water Isotopes: from Basin to Global Scale

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS

Stable water isotopes are a novel means of tracing and evaluating simulations of hydrological processes. Recent measurement campaigns (e.g. IAEA¹s Global Network of Isotopes in Rivers (GNIR) and “Moisture Isotopes in the Biosphere and Atmosphere” (MIBA)) are being combined with new international model intercomparisons (e.g. the World Climate Research Program and the Integrated Land Ecosystem ¬ Atmosphere Processes Studies (iLEAPS) iPILPS). This session provides an opportunity to present new work on stable water isotope techniques and tools from the basin scale to the global scale, including techniques for field and laboratory measurement, parameterisation of vegetation and soil effects together with basin to global scale integration of processes

Convener

Designated:

Kendal McGuffie,

Department of Applied Physics,

University of Technology,

Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA;

ph: +61 2 9514 2072:

Fax: +61 2 9514 2219;

e-mailkendal.mcguffie@uts.edu.au

Co-Convener

Designated:

Ann Henderson-Sellers, Institute for Nuclear Geophysiology, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, (ahssec@ansto.gov.au)

John Gibson, (Temporary Address Until 9/2006): Institute for Nuclear Geophysiology, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO), (john.gibson@ansto.gov.au) (Permanent address): National Water Research Institute at W-CIRC, University of Victoria, (john.gibson@ec.gc.ca)

JMS008: Clouds and Radiation and Air-Sea-Ice Interactions

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAPSO, SCAR

The transfer of energy from the ocean to the atmosphere at high latitude is controlled by many factors including clouds and flux transfer in the boundary layer over sea ice. This energy transfer plays a major role in driving the global ocean circulation and hence in controlling global climate. Contributions on new insights are welcome

Convener

Designated:

Tom Lachlan-Cope,

British Antarctic Survey,

High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK;

Phone 01223 221484;

e-mail: t.lachlan-cope@bas.ac.uk

Co-Convener

Designated:

Svetlana V. Krakovskaia, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Research Institute,(KraSvet@ozsol.kiev.ua)

Sergey Gulev, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, (gul@sail.msk.ru)

JMS009: Hydrological Cycle, Precipitation and Precipitation Systems

Total abstracts submitted: 6

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 6 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAG, IAHS, IAPSO, UCCS

The hydrological cycle is a fundamental aspect of the Earth's climate system and it must be well understood if we are to better predict our varying and changing climate. This Symposium focuses on assessing our present capabilities to determine, understand and predict the hydrological cycle on global to regional scales including its variations and extremes as well as on examining how it may change in the future. Because precipitation is such an important aspect of the hydrological cycle and also has major direct impacts, special attention will be paid to it. This will include an examination of the precipitation cloud systems that produce this precipitation and play a major role on the hydrological cycle. Studies based on observations, theory, and modeling are all welcome

Convener

Designated:

Ronald Stewart,

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,

Burnside Hall, Room 945, 805 Sherbrooke Street West,

Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada;

Phone: 514-398-3764;

Fax: 514-398-6115;

e-mail: ronald.stewart@mcgill.ca

Co-Convener

Designated:

Jianli Chen, Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, 3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78759-5321; Phone: 512-232-6218; Fax: 512-471-3570; chen@csr.utexas.edu

JMS010: Tropical Cyclones

Total abstracts submitted: 2

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 2 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO

Tropical cyclones constitute the most powerful and destructive weather phenomena on the planet. As the recent example of Cyclone Katrina demonstrates, we do not yet fully understand the processes that determine the development and movement of tropical cyclones to the extent that their properties can be forecasted with precision over a time scale of several days. The magnitude of these events also calls for more detailed study of their impacts on coastal environments. Papers on the genesis, movement, dynamics and consequences of tropical cyclones are solicited. These may address observations and forecasting, the interaction with the ocean, and their impact on land, particularly with regard to inundation and rainfall

Convener

Designated:

Roger K. Smith,

Meteorological Institute,

University of Munich

Theresienstr. 37, 80333 Munich Germany;

Tel: +49 89 2180 4383;

Fax: +49 89 2180 4182;

e-mail: roger@meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de

Co-Convener

Designated:

Peter Baines, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne (p.baines@unimelb.edu.au)

Gustavo Jorge Goni, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA/AOML/PHOD, Miami, FL, USA; Gustavo.Goni@noaa.gov

JMS011: Monsoon Systems

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO, THORPEX

Monsoons are among the most complex of atmospheric weather phenomena, involving processes on a wide range of space and time scales. They contain much of the rainfall of the tropics, and their variability on even the largest scales is notoriously difficult to predict. The energy released in these systems also has impact on weather in mid-latitudes. In recent years, observations from a variety of field studies and satellite data have provided much more information on monsoons, and progress is being made. This symposium invites presentations on all aspects of monsoon dynamics, including observations, modeling and forecasting studies. Studies involving interactions with the ocean, and the effect of processes on a variety of scales on rainfall, are particularly sought

Convener

Designated:

Guoxiong Wu,

State Key lab of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG),

Institute of Atmospheric Physics,

Chinese Academy of Sciences,

P.O. Box 9804, Beijing, 100029 China;

TEL: 0086-10-62043356;

FAX: 0086-10-62043526;

e-mail: gxwu@lasg.iap.ac.cn

Co-Convener

Designated:

Bin Wang, Meteorology/IPRC, University of Hawaii, (wangbin@hawaii.edu)

Harry Hendon, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, (h.hendon@bom.gov.au)

Peter Webster, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Technology Building, (pjw@eas.gatech.edu)

JMS012: Planetary Atmospheres and Their Evolution

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: (ICPAE), IAGA

Papers are invited which report important progress on all aspects of our current understanding of the evolution of atmospheres of all planets, moons and comets. The emphasis will be on insights gained from recent space missions, including Cassini and other satellites. Contributions describing the atmosphere-related objectives of the relevant missions, analysis of observations, and the results of model simulations of atmospheric evolution are also welcome.

Convener

Designated:

Athena Coustenis,

LESIA (Bât 18),

Observatoire de Meudon,

92195, Meudon Cedex, France,

Tel: 331 45 07 77 20;

Fax: 331 45 07 74 69;

e-mail: Athena.Coustenis@obspm.fr

Co-Convener

Designated:

P. Casavecchia (Univ. of Perugia, Italy);

D. Strobel (Johns Hopkins, USA).

JMS013: Aeronomy of Planetary Atmospheres: Comparative Planetology

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: (ICPAE, ICMA), IAGA

Papers are invited on the physics and chemistry of the lower, middle and upper atmosphere and ionosphere of the inner and outer planets and their satellites. Studies of comparative atmospheres, including the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars, are also invited, with emphasis on the differences and similarities in their climates. Results from recent missions to Mars and the outer planets are of particular interest. Reports on improvement in general circulation models of the thermosphere and lower atmospheres of the planets and descriptions of future planetary missions are also invited.

Convener

Designated:

Athena Coustenis,

LESIA (Bât 18),

Observatoire de Meudon,

92195, Meudon Cedex, France,

Tel: 331 45 07 77 20;

Fax: 331 45 07 74 69;

e-mail: Athena.Coustenis@obspm.fr

Co-Convener

Designated:

P. Casavecchia (Univ. of Perugia, Italy);

D. Titov (Max Planck for Solar System Research, Germany).

JMS014: Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAPSO

The ocean and atmosphere are coupled through air-sea fluxes of heat, mass, momentum, and biogeochemical species. This symposium examines the mechanisms and feedbacks that couple the atmosphere and ocean, in particular, the dynamics, thermodynamics, and biogeochemical cycling of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system at latitudes from the equator to the poles

Convener

Designated:

David Battisti,

Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences,

University of Washington,

718 Atmospheric Sciences Building, Box 351640, Seattle WA 98195-1640, USA;

Phone: (206) 543-2019;

Fax: (206) 543-0308;

e-mail: david@atmos.washington.edu.

Co-Convener

Designated:

David Kevin Woolf, Ocean Observing & Climate Group, National Oceanography Centre,

e-mail: dkw@noc.soton.ac.uk

JMS015: Mid-latitude Droughts in a Changing Climate

Total abstracts submitted: 2

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 2 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS

The aim of this session is to bring together scientists that investigate mid-latitude droughts from various perspectives using observational, diagnostic or modeling approaches. The symposium invites papers from a wide range of themes: case studies of recent droughts (e.g. the European heat wave of 2003, the Iberian drought of 2005), mechanisms and dynamics of droughts (including the role of atmospheric drivers and land-surface processes), variability and trends of droughts (using observations and/or proxy data), and modeling studies addressing the role of climate change and climate variability for the occurrence of droughts

Convener

Designated:

Christoph Schär,

Institute for Atmospheric & Climate Science,

ETH, Universitätsstrasse 16, CHN M12.1, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland;

Phone: +41 44 632 8199;

Fax: +41 44 632 1311;

e-mail: schaer@env.ethz.ch

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS016: Cryospheric Change and Sea Level

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, UCCS (plus SCAR and CliC)

Major changes have occurred in the cryosphere in recent decades, with Arctic sea ice extent reaching record low values, glaciers retreating in all parts of the world, permafrost disappearing in many parts of the Arctic and snow cover extent reducing. There are also indications that the Greenland ice sheet is decreasing in size with implications for sea level. This symposium invites papers on all aspects of monitoring and modeling the cryosphere, and determining the possible impact on sea level. We welcome papers of sea ice, the ice sheets, snow cover, glaciers, ice shelves and permafrost.

Convener

Designated:

Steve Harangozo,

Physical Sciences Division,

British Antarctic Survey,

High Cross, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0ET, U.K.;

Ph: +44 1223 221437;

Fax: +44 1223 221279;

e-mail: sah@bas.ac.uk

Co-Convener

Designated:

Konrad Steffen, University of Colorado, CIRES, (Konrad.Steffen@colorado.edu)

David Michael Holland, Courant Institute of Math. Sci., New York University, (holland@cims.nyu.edu)

Robert Thomas, EG&G Services, NASA Walllops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, USA; robert_thomas@hotmail.com

JMS017: The Holocene-Anthropocene Transition: From Natural to Human-Dominance of the Earth System

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAPSO

Until recently, the Holocene climate of the last 10,000 years has been relatively stable, at least on a global basis. This period, also characterized by regional to global fluctuations of varying degrees, provides the context for human-induced change. Since about 1750, human activities have become a major factor in the climate, altering atmospheric composition and the land surface. With projections for the rates of change to continue, we are transitioning to a human-dominated climate—the Anthropocene has been coined to describe this emerging period. This symposium invites papers describing the Holocene climate (observational/ proxy or modeling); the forcings that humans are adding to the factors that have affected the climate in the past; documentation, detection, and attribution of the resulting changes; and projections of how these changes will develop in the future

Convener

Designated:

Phil Jones,

Climatic Research Unit,

School of Environmental Sciences,

University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK;

Tel. +44 (0) 1603 592090;

Fax: +44 (0) 1603 507784;

e-mail: p.jones@uea.ac.uk

Michael E. Mann,

Earth System Science Center (ESSC),

Department of Meteorology,

503 Walker Building, The Pennsylvania State University,

University Park, PA 16802-5013 USA;

Tel: +1 (814) 863-4075;

Fax: +1 (814) 865-3663;

e-mail: mann@psu.edu

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS018: High Latitude Modes of Climate Variability

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: (ICPM, ICDM), SCAR, IAHS, IAPSO, UCCS

The climates of the Arctic and Antarctic are governed by the large scale modes of atmospheric variability such as the Northern and Southern Annular Modes (NAM/SAM), and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation that is manifested in high latitudes by the Pacific-North American and Pacific-South American (PNA/PSA) patterns. The impacts of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation will also be explored. The symposium will be concerned how these patterns are changing and affecting high latitude climate, how the different modes interact and the mechanisms by which this occurs, the roles of high latitude versus tropical forcing, the roles of the ocean and sea ice cover in initiating and/or amplifying change, stratospheric versus tropospheric causes of variability, and the issue of natural versus anthropogenic forcing. Contributions are solicited from all approaches that bear on these topics, such as observational analyses from reanalyses and ice-core records, theoretical studies, and all types of numerical modeling

Convener

Designated:

David H. Bromwich,

Byrd Polar Research Center,

The Ohio State University,

1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1002, USA;

Tel 001 614 292 1094;

e-mail: bromwich.1@osu.edu

Co-Convener

Designated:

Andrey Proshutinsky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography Department, (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)

JMS019: Toward Bridging the Gap Between Weather and Inter-Annual Climate Variability: Processes, Phenomena and Prediction

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO

Improvement on the one hand in our understanding of persistent weather patterns and the continuing progress in deterministic and ensemble weather prediction has been paralleled on the other hand by the identification of key patterns of intra-seasonal and inter-annual climate variability and the development of operational suites for seasonal prediction. These advances have also pinpointed the role and significance of the oceans and land-surface processes to the understanding and forecasting of the phenomena and patterns.

This Inter-Association Symposium will focus on the efforts being made to bridge the “Weather - Climate Variability” divide reflected in our understanding of the inter-play of the ocean, land and atmosphere, of the dynamics of the major phenomena, and in development of “seamless” prediction suites

Convener

Designated:

Huw C. Davies,

Institute for Atmospheric & Climate Science,

ETH, Universitätsstrasse 16,

ETH Zentrum CHN M12.1, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland;

Tel. +41-44-633 3506;

Fax +41-44-633 1058;

e-mail: huw.davies@env.ethz.ch

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS020: Assessing & Exploiting Re-analysis Data Sets

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO

The compilation of spatially and temporally consistent global data sets for atmosphere variables along with associated variables at the underlying surface (- such as SST, surface, wind stress, land surface state and soil moisture) has presented the environmental community with unprecedented opportunities. It has become possible to derive global budget estimates for a range of variables, to compile climatologies of a myriad of phenomena, and to undertake detailed diagnostic analyses of environmental processes.

This Inter-Association symposium will aim at assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the data sets, highlight the progress made in diagnostic studies, and preview future developments

Convener

Designated:

Phillip Arkin,

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC),

2207 Computer and Space Science Building,

University of Maryland,

College Park, MD 20742-2465, USA;

Tel: (301) 405-2147;

Fax: (301) 405-8468;

e-mail: parkin@essic.umd.edu

Co-Convener

Designated:

Adrian Simmons, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, (adrian.simmons@ecmwf.int)

Annarita Mariotti, ENEA National Agency, (annarita.mariotti@casaccia.enea.it), also at Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, (amariott@essic.umd.edu)

Tsengdar Lee, Research Division, NASA Office of Earth Science, NASA HQ (tlee@hq.nasa.gov)

David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, (bromwich.1@osu.edu)

JMS021: Energetic Particles and Geomagnetic Storm Influence on Chemical and Dynamical Processes in the Polar Stratosphere and Mesosphere

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: (ICMA), IAGA Div. II

This symposium covers satellite and ground based observations, numerical simulations and theoretical studies of the polar stratosphere and mesosphere response to solar protons and precipitating electrons penetrating into the polar atmosphere during solar proton events, and periods of geomagnetic storms. Studies devoted to perturbations in the D-region after external forcing from above, and comparison with changes in neutral composition, are also welcome

Convener

Designated:

Alexei Krivolutsky,

Central Aerological Observatory,

Pervomayskaya str. 3, Dolgoprudny 141700, Moscow Region, Russia:

tel: +7-495-408-77-06;

fax: +7-495-576-33-27;

e-mail: alkriv@lenta.ru

Co-Convener

Designated:

Cora Randall, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of Colorado, (cora.randall@lasp.colorado.edu)

Yvan Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, (orsolini@nilu.no)

JMS022: Solar Impact on the Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere System

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: (ICMA), IAGA

The session will address the identification of the solar signal based on observational datasets ranging from the upper atmosphere (thermosphere, mesosphere) to the troposphere, the Earth's surface and the oceans. It will further focus on the physical and chemical processes leading to the observed solar signal, including those due to variations in electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle precipitation. Simulations with mechanistic, general circulation and chemistry climate models are especially encouraged. Studies on the variations on different time scales ranging from the 27-day rotation period over the 11-year solar cycle to centennial variations including the Maunder Minimum are welcome

Convener

Designated:

Ulrike Langematz,

Institut für Meteorologie,

Freie Universität Berlin,

Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165 Berlin, Germany;

tel: 49-30-83871165;

fax: 49-30-83871128,

e-mail: Ulrike.Langematz@met.fu-berlin.de

Co-Convener

Designated:

Lon L. Hood, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, (lon@lpl.arizona.edu)

J. Lastovicka, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, (jla@ufa.cas.cz)

JMS023: Instabilities in the Neutral Atmosphere, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: (ICMA), IAGA, Div II

Instabilities occur throughout the Earth's neutral atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere and their occurrence triggers numerous interesting phenomena that continue to be studied. These include Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities near the mesopause and the magnetopause, and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in the ionosphere. This session will feature reviews, emphasizing the similar physics involved, of observations and modeling of instabilities that occur in these three regions. Contributions directly related to instabilities throughout the neutral atmosphere/ionosphere/magnetosphere are also welcome. Of particular interest are papers discussing instabilities in one regime which are either produced or are caused by phenomena in another

Convener

Designated:

James H. Hecht,

The Aerospace Corporation,

P.O. Box 92957, Los Angeles, California 90009, USA:

tel: 1-310-336-7017;

fax 1-310-336-1636;

e-mail: james.h.hecht@aero.org

Co-Convener

Designated:

Kazue Takahashi, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (kazue.takahashi@jhuapl.edu)

JMS024: Data Assimilation for the Atmosphere, Ocean and Land Surface

Total abstracts submitted: 3

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 3 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, IAPSO

Data Assimilation is a key technique in Earth Science, allowing the exploitation of the vast quantity of measurements of the atmosphere, ocean and land surface. We are living a golden age in which a wide range of data from research satellites, such as EOS-Aura, COSMIC and CloudSat, complements the increasing amount of data from operational weather satellites. Data assimilation can organise the wealth of data from both satellite and in situ platforms to analyse the current state of the Earth System and form the basis of improved forecasts from the meso to the global scale. The session will bring together scientists working across a broad range of subject areas; particular areas will include: - novel assimilation methods, - weather and climate prediction, - mesoscale and cloud-scale processes, - atmospheric chemistry, - oceanography, - land surface and hydrology

Convener

Designated:

Richard Swinbank,

Met Office, FitzRoy Road,

Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK;

Tel: +44 1392 886619;

Fax: +44 1392 885681;

e-mail: richard.swinbank@metoffice.gov.uk

Co-Convener

Designated:

William Lahoz, Data Assimilation Research Centre, Department of Meteorology,

University of Reading, (swslahoz@reading.ac.uk)

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, rizzoli@mit.edu

Mu Mu, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, mumu@lasg.iap.ac.cn

JMS025: 3D Radiative Transfer in Complex Geophysical Media Including Clouds, Vegetation, Ice and Snow

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: IAHS, UCCS

Papers are invited on modeling and observations involving three-dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) applications to the Earth's atmosphere and surface (vegetation, land and sea ice). We are interested in aspects of solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation (e.g. actinic flux; irradiance on horizontal and tilted receivers including biological ones); visible and near-infrared radiation with applications to solar radiative transfer and remote sensing; and 3D effects due to variations in thermal absorption and emissivity. We expect methods for identifying errors and limits of various RT methods, and highlighting 3D effects characteristic of UV, Vis-NIR, and thermal RT. We strongly encourage papers on new approaches explicitly considering 3D radiative effects

Convener

Designated:

Robert F. Cahalan,

Climate and Radiation Branch,

NASA GSFC; NASA/GSFC/613.2,

Greenbelt, MD USA 20771;

Telephone: +1-301-614-5390;

Fax: +1-301-614-5493;

e-mail: Robert.F.Cahalan@nasa.gov.

Co-Convener

Designated:

Bernhard Mayer, DRL; Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, (bernhard.mayer@dlr.de)

JMS026: Ice Cores and Climate (UCCS Symposium hosted by IAMAS)

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: UCCS, IGS

Ice Cores drilled though ice on ice sheets and glaciers contain records on the past climate reaching as far back as up to 900.000 years. Ice core analyses have developed during the last decades and the span of parameters measured on the modern ice cores has expanded. The high resolution records from the ice cores thereby are some of the best sources we have in palaeo-climate research to manifest the full dynamics of the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice climate system. The aim is to present climate related ice core records from the ice sheets and glaciers both from the Arctic and Antarctic regions but also from those regions where ice is rapidly disappearing and the need to obtain ice cores before the ice is gone is urgent

Convener

Designated:

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen,

Niels Bohr Institute,

University of Copenhagen,

Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark,

Tel: +45 35 32 05 56,

fax: +45 35 36 53 57,

e-mail: ddj@gfy.ku.dk

Co-Convener

Designated:

Not assigned

JMS027: Glacier Fluctuations in the Asian High Mountains (UCCS Symposium hosted by IAMAS)

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: UCCS, IAHS, CGI, Ev-K2-CRN, ICIMOD, HKH-FRIEND, IG

On the Asian high mountains effects of climate variations on glaciers and, thus, on mountain landscape and water availability are subject of increasing concern. 20th century mass loss of these glaciers is considered to contribute markedly to sea level rise. A high variety of different climate settings from the monsoon regions to westerlies to very dry Inner Asian circumstances give reason to complex patterns of the glaciers’ sensitivity. Effects of changing climate include mass balance variability, debris cover pattern, glacier surges, glacier terminus fluctuations, and glacier related risks. Current and future glacier fluctuations and impacts are addressed

Convener

Designated:

Claudio Smiraglia,

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra,

Università degli Studi di Milano,

Via Mangiagalli 34 - 20133 Milano,

tel +39-02-50315516,

fax +39-02-50315494,

e-mail: claudio.smiraglia@unimi.it

Co-Convener

Designated:

Olga Solomina, Inst. Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny 29, 109017 Moscow, Russia, e-mail: olgasolomina@yandex.ru

Jiawen Ren, Key Lab of Cryosphere and Environment, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China, e-mail: jwren@lzb.ac.cn;

Mandira Shrestha, MNR Division ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, e-mail: mshrestha@icimode.org.np

Christoph Mayer, Glaziologische Kommission,

Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Alfons Goppel Strasse 11, 80539 München, Germany, e-mail: christoph.mayer@LRZ.badw-muenchen.de

JMS028: Consequences of Large Scale Circulation Variability on Snow and Ice Extent (UCCS Symposia hosted by IAMAS)

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: UCCS, IAHS-ICSIH, GEWEX, IGS

Atmospheric circulation patterns significantly influence the seasonal, inter-annual, and long term variations of snow cover extent and glacier mass balance. In turn, snow and ice also influence these larger scale circulation patterns. The linkage between the large scale air and moisture movement with solid phase water stores provides multi-directional feedback that further influences variability in both the circulation, and snow and ice accumulation, persistence and ablation. The objective of this symposium is to develop a discussion and understanding of the complex interaction between snow and ice, and circulation patterns at the large scale, and to synthesize the knowledge from various regions around the world

Convener

Designated:

Steven Fassnacht,

Snow Hydrology,

Watershed Science Program,

Natural Resources Building Room 335,

Colorado State University,

Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1472, USA,

Tel: +1.970.491.5454,

fax +1.970.491.6754,

e-mail: srf@cnr.colostate.edu

Co-Convener

Designated:

Gwyn Rees, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, (hgrees@ceh.ac.uk)

Peter Jansson, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Glaciology, Stockholm University, (peter.jansson@natgeo.su.se)

Thomas Painter, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, (tpainter@nsidc.org)

Pratap Singh, Mountain Hydrology Division, National Institute of Hydrology, (pratap@nih.ernet.in)

JMS029: Snow Avalanches – Field Observations and Modelling (UCCS Symposium hosted by IAMAS)

Total abstracts submitted: 1

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 1 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: UCCS, IGS

Most of the currently used avalanche simulation models are either statistical run-out models that are restricted to avalanche tracks that fit into different categories, or one-dimensional centre of mass models. Additionally, the avalanche path has to be prescribed by the user. Field evidence for verification is difficult to obtain and therefore rare. The approaches simplify very much and cannot describe the deformation of the avalanche body. Two- and three-dimensional models based on fundamental fluid mechanics are able to predict the avalanche track as well as lateral spreading and run out distances, and request for additional verification criteria. The session is to define the state of the art of determining the snow pack distribution in a high temporal and spatial resolution

Convener

Designated:

Karl Kleemayr,

Instiut fuer Naturgefahren und Wald-grenzregionen,

BFW, Department for Natural Hazards and Timberline,

BFW, Hofburg-Rennweg 1, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria,

Tel: +43(0)512 573933 5102,

e-mail: Karl.Kleemayr@uibk.ac.at

Co-Convener

Designated:

Andi Schaffhauser, Department for Natural Hazards and Timberline, (andreas.schaffhauser@uibk.ac.at)

Betty Sovilla, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, (sovilla@slf.ch)

Guido Luzi, Department of Electronic and Telecommunications, University of Florence, (guido.luzi@unifi.it)

Margarita Eglit, Department of Hydromecanics, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, (eglit@mech.math.msu.su)

JMS030: Extraterrestrial Ice (UCCS Symposium hosted by IAMAS)

Total abstracts submitted: 0

Abstracts waiting for acceptance: 0 - Accepted Abstracts: 0 - Rejected Abstracts: 0

Sponsoring Association: IAMAS in collaboration with: UCCS, IAG, IGS

Ice, either as H2O or CO2 ice (or other compositions) represents a common feature in the solar system, most notably, on the surfaces of the inner planets and as major constituents of the moons in the outer solar system. Knowledge about the occurrence of ice either at the surface or inside the planetary bodies stems primarily from astronomical and satellite observations of their surfaces and from measurements of geophysical parameters that reveal information on their internal structure. Little is known about the exact properties, the development and the present dynamics of ice deposits on extraterrestrial planets. This symposium is intended to provide an overview about our current understanding about extraterrestrial ices, their main characteristics and their development

Convener

Designated:

Manfred Lange,

Institute for Geophysics and Centre for Environmental Research (ZUFO),

University of Muenster,

Corrensstrasse 24, 48149 Muenster, Germany,

Tel: +49-251-833-3591,

Fax: +49-251-833-6100,

e-mail: langema@uni-muenster.de

Co-Convener

Designated:

Ralf Greve, Institute of Low Temperature Science (ILTS), Hokkaido University, (greve@lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp )