Second Announcement
Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) First Science Conference
Cryosphere - The "Frozen" Frontier of Climate Science
Theory, Observations, and Practical Applications
Beijing, China
11-15 April 2005
Abstract Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 30 November 2004
For further information, visit the conference website at:
http://clic.npolar.no/meetings/first/
BACKGROUND
As a core project of the World Climate Research Programme, the "Climate
and Cryosphere" (CliC) project encourages and promotes research into the
cryosphere and its interactions as part of the global climate system.
The project's principal goal is to assess and quantify the impacts that
climatic variability and change have on components of the cryosphere and
the consequences of these impacts for the climate system, and to
determine the stability of the global cryosphere. To support this goal,
CliC seeks to enhance and coordinate efforts to monitor the cryosphere,
to study climate-related processed involving the cryosphere, and to
model and understand its role in the climate system.
FORMAT AND THEMES
The conference will include oral presentations of invited keynote
lectures and contributed papers, poster sessions to allow presentation
of a wide range of relevant studies, and workshop sessions to address
future research directions. We invite papers that contribute to the
conference goals and address topics in the CliC Science and Coordination
Plan and the CliC Implementation Strategy.
Preliminary conference topics include:
- Meteorology and hydrology of cold regions, including solid
precipitation and snow-cover processes
- Permafrost and frozen ground processes
- Polar oceans and the marine cryosphere including sea ice, ice shelves,
and ice bergs
- Glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, and their contribution to sea level
change
- Interactions between the cryosphere and global climate, including
mechanisms for abrupt climate change
- The stability of the global cryosphere
- Observations and monitoring of the cryosphere
- Cryospheric indicators of climate change
- Prediction of the future state of the cryosphere and its influence on
climate predictability
- Cryospheric data management
- Practical and scientific applications of cryosphere/climate research
- Economic and social impact of changes in the cryosphere
- Cooperation in studies and observations of cryosphere and climate
- National and international research initiatives on the cryosphere and
its role in Climate and human activities
SPONSORS
World Climate Research Programme (WMO, ICSU, IOC of UNESCO)
China Meteorological Administration
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration
Natural Science Foundation of China
CliC International Project Office
Norwegian Polar Institute
For further information, visit the conference website at:
http://clic.npolar.no/meetings/first/
or contact:
CliC International Project Office
The Polar Environmental Centre
NO-9296 Tromso
Norway
Phone: +47 77 75 01 50
E-mail: (clic [at] npolar.no)
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http://clic.npolar.no/meetings/first/registration.php
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http://clic.npolar.no/meetings/first/submission.php