Spain
we call your attention on the next 5th PAGES Open Science Meeting that will take place in Zaragoza (Spain) from the 9th to 13th of May 2017.
The deadline for abstract submission will be on the 20th of December of 2016.
Go to http://www.pages-osm.org/ and check for the list of sessions.
session of ice2ice interest
17. Abrupt climate change: Challenges for Earth system understanding
Co-conveners: Gerrit Lohman (gerrit.lohmann@awi.de), Ruza Ivanovic (R.Ivanovic@leeds.ac.uk), Lauren Gregoire (L.J.Gregoire@leeds.ac.uk), Gregor Knorr (grgorknorr@hotmail.com), Stephen Barker (BarkerS3@cardiff.ac.uk) and Andrea Burke (ab276@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Understanding the dynamics of past periods in which abrupt changes have occurred remains a major challenge in climate research. For example, during the last deglaciation (21 thousand years ago until present) several large and abrupt environmental changes took place that have been linked with collapsing ice sheets and rapid reorganisations of ocean circulation. Reaching a better knowledge of how and why these abrupt changes took place, as well as their effect on the wider environment, is key to achieving a fully process-based understanding of the climate system.
The fundamental questions remain: How can progressive climate trends trigger such rapid events? Are they stochastic responses in a variable Earth System? What are the ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions that lead to these events? What was their impact on environmental systems? For this session, we invite contributions covering data acquisition and high-resolution records, new model concepts and mechanistic studies, as well as combined data-model analyses that provide a basis for an enhanced understanding of abrupt environmental change.