ICPM Sessions at IUGG
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the following symposium at the 26th International Union on Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), which will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, during June 22 - July 2, 2015.
M03 Weather and the Global Atmospheric Electric Circuit
Convener: Mai Mai Lam (Cambridge, U.K.) mml@bas.ac.uk or maimailam7@gmail.com Co-convener: Matthew Lazzara (Madison, USA) mattl@ssec.wisc.edu or mlazzara@madisoncollege.edu
What potentially links the Sun and the solar wind to thunderstorms, to some of the day-to-day variability in large-scale tropospheric dynamics, and to clouds?
The answer is the Earth’s global atmospheric electric circuit...
This symposium will be of interest to scientists from a range of disciplines including atmospheric electricity, vertical atmospheric coupling, meteorology, cloud physics, and solar-terrestrial physics. We welcome contributions that relate to atmospheric electricity studies. This will include novel measurements and techniques for measuring atmospheric electricity; identification of sources of atmospheric electricity variation (including those due to ionospheric variability driven by the solar wind); numerical modelling studies; the effects of atmospheric electricity on cloud dynamics; signatures of solar and solar wind variability in the lower atmosphere correlated with atmospheric electricity variations. We welcome studies from all areas of the globe but especially from remote areas, including the polar regions.
MO3 is an International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) symposium, sponsored jointly by the International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity and the International Commission on Polar Meteorology.
We will be convening a session on weather and climate modeling in the polar regions at the 26th IUGG general assembly 22 June - 2 July 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.
IUGG Website
A description of this session is included below. Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 31 January 2015. We hope that many of you will be able to attend the meeting and that you will consider submitting an abstract to this session. Please feel free to distribute this announcement to anyone with an interest in this topic.
Sincerely,
John Cassano (john.cassano@colordo.edu)
Matthew Lazzara (mattl@ssec.wisc.edu or mlazzara@madisoncollege.edu)
Tom Bracegirdle (tjbra@bas.ac.uk)
IAMAS Symposium M04
Numerical Models for Climate Studies and Forecasting at High Latitudes
Convener: John Cassano (Boulder, USA)
Co-conveners: Matthew Lazzara (Madison, USA), Tom Bracegirdle (Cambridge, U.K.)
Description
Over the last decade there has been an increasing focus on polar weather and climate modelling. However, at high latitudes there are processes that are often poorly represented, such as atmospheric boundary layers, cloud physics, sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics, and snow processes. Often this is due to a lack of observations of the processes being modelled. This symposium will focus on the current state of polar-focused weather, regional, and global climate modelling and observational efforts aimed at improving polar models.
