[AO announcement] Call for abstracts for IPY Oslo Science Conference, Theme 1, T1-1 Polar oceans and their importance for global ocean circulation

[Karen Heywood]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Happy New Year!

Please consider submitting an abstract for the International Polar  
Year open science conference in Oslo, Norway, 8th-12th June 2010 (full  
info http://www.ipy-osc.no/). The deadline for abstracts is 20th  
January and there are already a healthy number of abstracts submitted.  
I would be most grateful if you could circulate this call to colleagues.

We have a session, detailed below, on the links between the polar  
oceans and global climate.

I look forward to seeing you in Oslo!

Best wishes,
Karen
T1-1 Polar oceans and their importance for global ocean circulation

The polar and sub-polar oceans play a vital role in climate,  
transforming warm, salty water into colder, fresher water that is  
exported equatorward in both bottom and intermediate layers. This  
session will discuss the processes by which water masses are changed  
through interaction with the atmosphere and with ice shelves, through  
sea ice melting and freezing, and through diapycnal and isopycnal  
mixing. The session is inspired by the efforts that have been made  
during the IPY and are still ongoing. An important issue is likely to  
be the documenting and understanding of changes observed in high- 
latitude water masses in recent decades. We particularly encourage  
young scientists and those from nations relatively new to polar ocean  
science to present their results. We will welcome abstracts on recent  
observational campaigns, synthesis efforts, analyses of historical or  
remotely sensed data, laboratory experiments, theory or numerical  
ocean/climate modelling.


Professor Karen J. Heywood
Physical Oceanographer
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
-44-1603-592555
k.heywood at uea.ac.uk
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