Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to the session entitled: "Cryosphere and stable atmospheric boundary layers", in the World Weather Open Science Conference (WWOSC) to be held August 16-21, 2014, in Montreal, Canada.
Numerical weather prediction and climate models show large uncertainties in near surface temperature in areas over ice, snow, and frozen land. The strong winter signal and large uncertainty at high latitudes in climate models is often called Arctic amplification. The coupling between atmosphere and surface is a crucial aspect with uncertainties related to clouds (e.g. mixed phase clouds), turbulent mixing, snow processes, sea ice, vegetation heterogeneity and soil processes including soil freezing. There is also increasing evidence that meso-scale variability, scale interactions and terrain heterogeneity are key aspects of the coupling problem. We invite contributions on all these aspects and particularly on the interactions and feedbacks between components of the coupled atmosphere/cryosphere system. This includes studies with full GCM's, meso-scale models, large eddy simulation models, single column models and observational studies.
The deadline for abstracts (maximum 250 words) has been extended to March 10.
More information on the submission process can be found on:
http://wwosc2014.org/side_call/instructions_abstract-e.shtml
For more information on the conference, see:
and for sessions and keynote speakers:
http://wwosc2014.org/side_program/scientific_topics/topics-e.shtml
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Diana Verseghy (Environment Canada)
Anton Beljaars (ECMWF)
