Invitation and Call for Abstracts
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2004 Fall Meeting
Session C 13 - "NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
Mission: New Light on a Changing World"
The AGU Submission Form is available online at:
http://submissions4.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp
Abstract Submission Deadlines:
Thursday, 9 September 2004 at 2359 UT (Submissions via the web)
Wednesday, 1 September 2004 (Submissions via the mail)
To the ever broadening ICESat Mission Team:
As many of you know, there will be an ICESat special session at the
upcoming Fall AGU Meeting. This meeting will be in San Francisco the
week of 13-17 December 2004 and the session is entitled "NASA's Ice,
Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Mission: New Light on a
Changing World." Please consider this message our invitation to attend
and present your work.
Application of ICESat's first year-plus results to multidisciplinary
research, along with assessments of data calibration and validation,
will be the focus of the presentations. We specifically welcome
presentations on how ICESat data are being used to answer broad science
questions. We also encourage you to submit abstracts for presentations
on other parts of the mission, such as technological or operational
aspects.
Abstracts can be submitted at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm04/. We'll
have to wait to find out how many sessions and what type they'll be but
if you have a preference for an oral or poster presentation, specify
that on your submission. Also, please specify the ICESat session (C 13)
and then send an e-mail to Christopher.A.Shuman [at] nasa.gov containing just
the abstract to aid our session planning.
Sincerely,
Christopher Shuman, Bob Schutz, and Jay Zwally
SESSION DESCRIPTION
This session will provide a forum for the ICESat mission's continued
multidisciplinary scientific and technological achievements. Based on
data acquired during multiple operation periods since launch in January
2003, scientific advances in our understanding of ice sheet and sea ice,
cloud and aerosol, land surface and vegetation cover, and ocean surface
characteristics and their change through time will be presented. In this
session we encourage submission of studies that pursue a greater
understanding of this unique instrument's global measurement
capabilities, and we encourage submissions that link ICESat and other
altimetry data to a broad Earth system context.
Sponsor: Cryosphere
CoSponsors: Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, Geodesy, Hydrology,
and Ocean Sciences