ice2ice

CIC takes a week off to plan for the future.

The Arctic surface temperature has been increasing significantly and is rising twice as fast as the global mean.  The extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice is rapidly declining, and is consecutively below the average of 1981 – 2010 in all seasons since 2010. The Arctic sea ice has currently been on record low extent since the beginning of 2016. Meantime the Greenland ice sheet has experienced excessive surface melt. Why is Arctic sea ice disappearing so rapidly? What are the impacts of Arctic warming? How will Greenland ice sheet respond to the disappearing of Arctic sea ice?

The program will start at 11:30  the 5th dec and end by late afternoon the 6th at DMI. If you want to attend please email Christian and Jens directly (cr@dmi.dk and jhc@dmi.dk)

The full program can be found here: The WarmArctic Program

Contacts:

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen <jhc@dmi.dk>
Shuting Yang <shuting@dmi.dk>
Peter Lang Langen <pla@dmi.dk>

Eystein is co-organizing a session titled: PP014. How Fast? How Far? How Much?  Paleo-constraints on the extent and rates of retreat in marine-terminating glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice and welcome Ice2Ice contributions. The abstract submission site is now open. The deadline for all submissions is 3.8.

The preliminary program for the upcoming workshop on Holocene climate change organized within the framework of ice2Ice can be found here: holocene-ice2ice-workshop-2017-preliminary-program. Data-people and modellers are equally welcome.

The workshop will take place on January 23-25, 2017 in Dronningmølle at the North coast of Sjælland. 2 to 3 summerhouses is rented for the meeting, and all activities will take place at the location with the aim of enhancing interaction between the participants during the course of the whole day. We plan on short introductions to each topic, followed by discussions based on available data and model experiments, and relevant evening key-notes.

It should take approximately 2 – 2.5  hours to get there by public transport from Kastrup. We will look into the possibility of organizing bus transfer for the participant’s from/to the airport. The meeting will be planned so that it will be possible to arrive with the Monday morning early flight from Bergen, and to catch a late flight back to Bergen Wednesday evening. There will also be a possibility for checking-in on Sunday evening (22nd).

The focus of the workshop will be on understanding the Holocene linkages between ocean conditions, sea ice and land ice, with specific emphasis on:

1. The mid to late Holocene climate transition
2. Climate variability of the last 3 ka

We would also like to address the following questions:

1. Why does the water isotope record from Greenland  not record any of the significant climatic signals observed in other climate archives/proxies?
2. What are the ways to enhance the interplay between paleoclimatic research and studies focusing on the effects of climate on past civilizations?

Best wishes,

Niccolo, Vasileios, Christian and Bjørg

Contact information:

Niccolo: maffe@nbi.ku.dk

Vasileios: v.gkinis@nbi.ku.dk

Christian: Christian.dylmer@uni.no

Bjørg: bjorg.risebrobakken@uni.no

Suggested flights for people travelling from Bergen:

SAS SK2861 23. jan 17 06.00 — SAS SK2870 25 jan. 17 21.00

The Ice2Ice PhD bootcamp is held in Geilo, Norway, from Monday January 30th to Friday February 3rd, and we will stay in a large cozy lodge that is owned by the local hostel. The bootcamp week gives each of the three groups the opportunity to work intensively on their self-defined project together with their mentor(s). The groups are

Group 1:
Evangeline
Henrik
Niccolo
Lisa

Group 2:
Ida
Mads
Martin
Søren
Jonathan

Group 3:
Nicholas
benjamin
Iben
Silje
Andreas

Rasmus Anker Pedersen and Lars Henrik Smedsrud will join the bootcamp as group mentors. Additional group mentors will join on a skype connection.

The program for the week can be found here (pdf). The program includes project introduction presentations on the Monday, several group work sessions, cross-group discussion, student-organised seminars, mentor presentations by Lars Henrik and Rasmus, a social activity on the Thursday and a few social events in the evenings.

We will get to Geilo on the Monday by train that departures from Bergen central station 07.57. We will meet 07.45 in the entrance hall and walk to the train together as we have specific seats. The train ride takes approximately 3 hours. The trip back to Bergen on the Friday is also by train and leaves Geilo station 15.41. Train tickets for the bootcamp participants have been bought by the organisers and will be handed out upon departure. Please show up at Bergen station in due time as the next train for Geilo does not leave in another couple of hours. As the train leaves early Monday morning we ask the Copenhagen-based participants to arrive no later than the day before. For those who have to fly back to Copenhagen by the end of bootcamp we recommend the SAS flight 10am Saturday morning.

The hostel provides bed linen and towels, but please remember to bring warm clothes as the social activity is taking place outdoors.

You may bring skis to the lodge but skiing will only be allowed during unscheduled periods, or free time (In most cases this will be early morning before starting around 9am, or after finish in the evening. Be sure to bring a headlamp too!). Only cross-country skiing is an option as the ski slopes are closed in the early morning and in the evening.

We look forward to a productive bootcamp!

best wishes,
Evangeline, Nicholas and Mads