Dear all,
We would like to draw your attention to a cryosphere focussed coupling session at EGU21 (3-8 April):
Coupled modelling in the polar regions (CR 7.1)
Please consider submitting an abstract as well if you are working on studies with topics like:
- Coupled systems of ideal setups or the real world
- Interface development, maintenance, and workflows
- Feedbacks of coupled models
- Comparisons of online- and offline-coupled models
- ...
The abstract submission deadline is 12 January 2021, 13:00 CET.
You find the abstract below and can submit your abstract here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/42477
This session will apply the vPICO format - more information here: https://egu22.eu/about/provisional_meeting_format.html
We hope to see you at our session,
Konstanze Haubner, Rupert Gladstone, Yoshihiro Nakayama and Chen Zhao
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Abstract: CR 7.1 Coupled modelling in the polar regions
In recent decades, the climate in the polar regions has undergone dramatic changes. Quantifying the individual contributions of Earth system components (cryosphere, ocean, atmosphere, and land) to the observed changes is challenging due to feedback between the components. Examples include (but are not limited to) ice shelf-ocean interactions (through basal melting and cavity geometry evolution) and elevation feedbacks (through surface mass balance). Hence, studies based on individual components of the Earth System have limited capacity to represent all relevant processes. This session aims to provide a platform for sharing coupled modelling experiences incorporating the cryosphere in the polar regions.
Before obtaining scientific outcomes, design decisions must be made in the development of coupled models. Adopting existing coupling technologies or implementing new, concurrent or sequential parallelism, bringing component source codes together or maintaining independence, choosing the level of temporal synchronicity between components operating on different timescales, are all examples of choices to be made.
We solicit both technical and scientific contributions from modelling studies in which feedback and emergent properties between the cryosphere and other Earth System components in polar regions are investigated, better understood, and possibly even quantified. In addition to application of coupled modelling to real world domains, contributions are also invited from idealised studies and intercomparisons, such as the Marine Ice Sheet-Ocean Intercomparison Project (MISOMIP).
The vPICO format gives each scientist the opportunity to verbally present their main results briefly (2 min) followed by more detailed explanations and discussions using interactive screens. This EGU, attendees and presenters of PICO sessions will hopefully be able to follow both on site in Vienna and from home allowing easier participation.
