Live Webcast
Earth Science Update: Arctic Warming Affects Sea Ice and Global Climate
23 October 2003, 1 p.m. EDT
For more information please visit:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1023esuice.html
NASA's Arctic ice (cryospheric) findings and potential implications are
the topic of the next Earth Science Update Thursday, Oct. 23, at 1 p.m.
EDT in NASA Headquarters' James Webb Auditorium, 300 E Street S.W.,
Washington.
Live webcast is available at "Watch NASA TV Now!"
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/NASA45th/index1.html
Panelists will include:
Dr. Josefino Comiso, research scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center;
Mark C. Serreze, research scientist, University of Colorado, Boulder;
Michael Steele, oceanographer, University of Washington, Seattle;
David H. Rind, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York;
Moderator Waleed Abdalati, program scientist, NASA Headquarters.
NASA satellite observations show there has been considerable warming of
the Arctic over the last two decades. Simultaneously, a retreat of
Arctic sea-ice cover has been observed. Due to the prominent role
Arctic ice cover plays in ocean circulation, atmospheric processes and
the global energy balance, such changes in the Arctic can have
significant implications for the global climate.
For questions, please contact:
Sarah DeWitt
Goddard Space Flight Center
301-286-0535
or visit http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1023esuice.html