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Norway Sea Ice Workshop Report Available

Norway has significant expertise in sea-ice observations, research, and provision of operational sea-ice services. To help bring this community of experts from geophysics, remote sensing, modeling, observing and user groups together, the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project, the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Norwegian Ice Service, and the Research Council of Norway held a 2-day workshop at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, on 18-19 February 2013. The workshop represented an opportunity for these groups to engage in dialog, strengthen and develop new collaborations and share future research objectives. The full report can be downloaded here. Special thanks to Jennifer King for putting the report together.

Report sections:
Sea Ice Research Priorities
Stakeholder Priorities
Recommendations for future Norwegian Sea Ice Research
Participant List
Compendium of Norway Sea Ice Research Projects and PIs

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PALSEA 2013 Workshop: Estimating rates and sources of sea-level change during past warm periods

The workshop will take place on October 21-24 (25) 2013 at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), in Rome, Italy, and is sponsored by the WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project Office, Past Global Changes (PAGES) and International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).

The aim of this workshop is to explore, discuss, and debate what the paleo record can say about rates, sources, and processes of sea-level change across a range of magnitudes and timescales during past warm periods such as the Holocene, the last interglacial period, other interglacial periods such as marine isotope stage 11, and the Pliocene optimum. We encourage diverse contributions such as evidence from geologic records, geochronological controls, and models of climate, ice sheets and glacial isostatic effects. For meeting flyer go to: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~carlsand/PALSEA2/PALSEA_2013_Meeting_files/PALSEA2_2013_circular.pdf

The deadline for submitting abstracts will be 15 June 2013 to adutton@ufl.edu, workshop homepage at: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~carlsand/PALSEA2/PALSEA_2013_Meeting.html

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WCRP Special Workshop on Climatic Effects of Ozone Depletion in the Southern Hemisphere Report Available

Contributed by Marilyn Raphael, UCLA

A WCRP Special Workshop on the ‘Climatic Effects of Ozone Depletion in the Southern Hemisphere: Assessing the evidence and identifying gaps in the current knowledge’, was convened at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 25 February to 1 March, 2013.

The WCRP Special Workshop was held to examine our understanding of the links between stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery and the climate of the Southern Hemisphere including the Southern Ocean. Our understanding of the influence of increasing greenhouse gas concentration was also examined. Of immediate relevance to the CliC community is the discussion of the links between observed changes in the atmospheric circulation due to stratospheric ozone depletion and contemporary Antarctic surface temperature and sea ice trends.  While the links to surface temperature changes in regions such as the Peninsula are clear, those to sea ice changes are not. The discrepancy between the modeled and observed sea ice trends was highlighted as an area for future research with specific reference to the need for a better understanding of sea ice formation processes and the interaction with the ocean and atmosphere. Download the report

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