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The workshop on abrupt climate change is organized within the framework of the Ice2Ice and ANA-Clim projects.
The workshop will take place on October 3-5, 2016 in Bergen (Lecture Room, Uni Research Health, Nygårdsporten, Nygårdsgaten 112). We aim to start Monday morning facilitating that Copenhagen based people may join by taking either SAS or Norwegian departing 0800 and 0820 respectively and end Wednesday afternoon. We will organize a workshop dinner on Tuesday evening.
Continental, marine and polar paleoclimate records preserve abundant evidence of “Dansgaard-Oeshger” (DO) events, a series of abrupt climate events occurring during the last glacial period, with different expressions over the entire globe. Various paradigms have been proposed to explain their existence and evolution, including mechanisms involving rapid changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Arctic sea-ice cover, continental ice sheets, and ice shelves. Still, aspects of these abrupt climate changes remain poorly understood.
The objectives of this workshop are:
– to familiarize the Ice2Ice community with this manifestation of millennial scale climate variability as recorded in the various paleoclimatic archives and in terms of existing mechanisms proposed to explain them
– to discuss, in light of new high resolution datasets, the spatial and temporal signature of climate and environmental changes associated with the DO events
– to discuss the use of existing and new model simulations to constrain possible mechanisms and reject hypotheses which do not satisfy the observations
Invited speakers (with additions to be made as confirmations are received): Jorge Alvarez-Solas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Steven Barker (Cardiff University), David Battisti (University of Washington), Franck Bassinot from LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, France)
Please send your expression of interest by filling this form (click here for link) by 30.7. There will be limited space available. In the eventuality that we need to proceed to a selection process for participation, we kindly ask you to include in your expression of interest a short description of your research experience as it relates to the workshop focus and of the work you would like to present.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Accommodation info:
We have reserved 20 rooms at Scandic Ørnen.
This hotel is located just up the street from where the meeting will be held.
5 of these rooms are reserved from October 2-6 (4 nights) and the rest are reserved October 3-5.
The price of the room is NOK 1312,- per night including breakfast, not including the taxes.
These rooms are only being held until September 15. After this date, you will have to find your own hotel in Bergen.
You can book by e-mail at meeting.ornen@scandichotels.com or call the hotel directly at +47 55 37 50 00. Give the order reference BUNI021016.
More information about this hotel can be found here.
Contacts:
Emilie Capron, capron@nbi.ku.dk
Kerim Nisancioglu, kerim@bjerknes.uib.no
Trond Dokken, trond.dokken@uni.no
Camille Li, camille@uib.no
Admin: Erik Sandquist, erik.sandquist@uni.no
PI meeting in Bergen
Contact Sarah/Trond/Bo/ for interes
Aim is to keep updated on ice2ice activities within and between the Bergen groups. Copenhagen colleagues are more than welcome. Contact Erik.
Eystein has accepted an invitation to speak at the conference
Scope and participation:
The PhD course is aimed at PhD students and junior postdocs who conduct ice core analysis or are users of ice core data (glaciological, oceanographic, climate modelers).
The results from ice cores cannot be fully appreciated without understanding the analytical techniques behind the measurements as well as the implicit assumptions related to the emission, transport and deposition of the species analysed.
These include a variety of approaches such as continuous flow analysis (CFA) for the analysis of impurities, but also ion chromatography, ICP-MS and a number of other methods used for high resolution measurements of the impurity content in ice cores. Laser spectroscopy has replaced older-generation technology such as mass spectrometry for the analysis of some gases preserved in polar ice.
ICAT aims to educate a new generation of ice core researchers and foster a collaborative environment for future glaciological projects.
The course will enhance the knowledge between PhD’s within the ice core community on new methods developed for the analysis of ice core climate.
Practical information
Lecturers include: Prof Joe McConnell, Prof Ed Brook, Prof Thomas Blunier with more.
Registration fee: No registration fee, but students should prepare for their own lodging and transport.
Venue: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Application: Send your application to hellek@fys.ku.dk before July 30th, 2016. You will be notified the decision of the Selection Committee by September 1st, 2016
Your application should include:
- A statement of why you want to participate
- Affiliation, name of supervisor
- A 200 word description of your research project
- a Curriculum Vitae
Please supply this information as a single pdf.
PI meeting in Bergen
CIC takes a week off to plan for the future.
DMI/NBI meeting to keep each other up to date on progress and collaborations.
This meeting will be helt at CIC in room 235.
AGENDA
-Peter Langen: Liquid water flow and retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet in the regional climate model HIRHAM5: local and large-scale impacts
-Eliza Cook: New far travelled tephra found in ice cores
-Ida Ringaard: Update on phD project
Norwegian colleagues are always welcome to join.
Please contact Helle if you have points for the agenda.
Aim is to keep updated on ice2ice activities within and between the Bergen groups. Copenhagen colleagues are more than welcome. Contact Erik.