EGS XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2000

OA32.04 Climate variability: Climate of the polar regions - Oral Programme
Attention: The numbers associated with the title of the contributions are the Manuscript Numbers for the Proceedings/Special Issue, the times associated with the names are the start-times of the oral presentations!

Convener: Harder, M.
Co-Convener(s): Steele, M.
Editor(s):
Co- Sponsorship:

Thursday, 27 April 2000
Lecture Room: Euterpe

Chairperson: Harder, M.

14:00
-0000		 ROTHROCK, D.A.; YU, Y.; MAYKUT, G.A.; ZHANG, J.
Why is the Arctic ice cover so thin? (Solicited Paper)

14:30
-0000		 PEACOCK, N.R.; LAXON, S.W.
Interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic derived from satellite radar altimeter observations

14:45
-0000		 MOONEY, A.; LAXON, S.; PEACOCK, N.
New estimates of the freshwater flux through the fram strait using satellite derived ice thickness

15:00
-0000		 KOEBERLE, C.; GERDES, R.; KARCHER, M.; KAUKER, F.
Variability in Arctic Ice Volume and Export and its Effect on the Ocean

15:15
-0000		 VENEGAS, S.A.; MYSAK, L.A.
Is there a dominant timescale of natural climate variability in the Arctic?

15:30
-0000		 MARTINSON, D.G.; STEELE, M.; MUENCH, R.D.
Loss of the cold halocline and Arctic Ocean heat fluxes

15:45
-0000		 FUREVIK, T.
Propagation of heat anomalies towards the Arctic Ocean

16:00
-0000		 HOLMIANSKY, M.; OPEKUNOV, U.; DOROFEEVA, E.; SOBOLEV, V.
Effective observing system for study of climate change in Arctic

16:15
-0000		 BREAK
Chairperson: Steele, M.

16:30
-0000		 BENTSEN, M.; DRANGE, H.; KVAMSTO, N.G.; FUREVIK, T.
Modelling the Climate Variability of the North Atlantic, the Nordic Seas and the Arctic Ocean

16:45
-0000		 KVAMSTO, N.G.
High resolution simulation of the Nordic and Arctic climate with a global variable resolution model

17:00
-0000		 MONTETY, A.DE; FICHEFET, TH.
Polar climate simulated by a coupled general circulation model

17:15
-0000		 BROMWICH, D.; ROGERS, A.; SINCLAIR, E.; CULLATHER, R.
Interannual variability of the Arctic atmosphereic moisture budget

17:30
-0000		 SKEIE, P.
The Barents Oscillation

17:45
-0000		 MAUS, S.
Salinity variablity in the water masses of the Barents Ses during the past 50 Years

18:00
-0000		 SEMMLER, T.; JACOB, D.; PODZUN, R.
Sensitivity experiments with REMO on the influence of the ice egde

18:15
-0000		 END OF PART I

Friday, 28 April 2000
Lecture Room: Euterpe

Chairperson: Martinson, D.G.

08:30
-0000		 CHRISTENSEN, J.H.; KUHRY, P.
High resolution regional climate model validation and permafrost simulation for the East-European Russian Arctic

08:45
-0000		 HUMMELSHOEJ, P.; COURTNEY, M.S.; CHRISTIANSEN, H.H.; MORTENSEN, L.E.; HUMLUM, O.
Mountain meteorological measurements at extreme icing conditions in the Faroe Islands

09:00
-0000		 PRZYBYLAK, R.
Variability of the thermic parameters in the Norwegian Arctic over the period 1951-1990

09:15
-0000		 LECKEBUSCH, G.C.; SPETH, P.
Detecting the influence of ENSO related climate variability of the southern hemisphere on Antarctica