Date

Abstract Submission Deadline Extended
8th AMS Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Conference
85th Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society
San Diego, California
9-13 January 2005

Electronic Abstract Deadline EXTENDED: Monday, 9 August 2004

Deadline for Extended Abstracts: Monday, 1 November 2004

To submit your abstract online, please go to:
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS

For further conference information, please go to:
http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/AMS_polar/


The 85th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society is being
organized around the broad theme of "Building the Earth Information
System" and the role that science can play in decision-making for
society.

Abstracts on a diverse set of topics are requested:
- Abrupt Change - Atmosphere, Ocean, Terrestrial, Cryosphere (Past,
Present and Future)
- Air-Sea-Ice Interactions (Joint Session with Coastal)
- Atmospheric/Sea-Ice/Ocean Exchanges
- Freshwater Balance (Joint Session with Coastal)
- High-Latitude Modeling of the ocean-atmosphere-land-cryosphere
- Land-Ocean Exchange (Joint Session with Coastal)
- Landfast Ice Processes (Joint with Coastal)
- Ocean Tides (Joint with Coastal)
- Polar Chemistry and Contaminants (fate and transport)
- Polar Climate Variations - Atmosphere, Ocean, Terrestrial, Cryosphere
- Polar Clouds
- Polar Satellite Observations
- Polar Weather (polar lows, weather extremes)
- Results from recent field programs and updates on upcoming field
programs (Change to Polar Programs Past and Present - SHEBA, SEARCH,
RIME, IPY, SNACS, CLIC, CHAMP)
- River Outflows (Joint with Coastal)
- Sea Ice Data Assimilation
- Shelf Processes (Joint with Coastal)
- The Cryosphere - Ice sheets, Sea Ice, Glaciers
- The Polar Atmosphere - Boundary Layer, Clouds, Radiation, Water Vapor
- The Polar Oceans - Thermohaline Circulations, Heat Fluxes, Sea-level
Changes, Deep Water Formation
- High latitude climate variability and change (joint with the 16th
Symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations)

If you do not find your exact topic, do not be discouraged. Please
consider submitting an abstract under the closest topic. A broad array
of topics presented will encourage future multi-disciplinary research.

To submit your abstract online, please go to:
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS

For further conference information, please go to:
http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/AMS_polar/