January 2005
U.S. CLIVAR News-gram
Table of Contents
=================== i – Calendar of Upcoming Events
Research Opportunities and Calls for Papers
1. NASA: Call For Proposals For Project Columbia High-end Computing Resources
2. NSF: Proposals for Partnerships for International Research and Education
3. ONR: The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program at Department of the
Navy Laboratories
4. NASA: The Omnibus NASA Research Announcement (NRA) entitled "Research
Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2005 (ROSES-05)"
5. Collaboration in Mathematical Geoscience competition: NSF Program Solicitation
(NSF 05-535)
6. 15th Conference on Applied Climatology
7. 13th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation (SMOI) Position Announcements
8. NASA Positions Available
9. Director of CliC International Project Office (CIPO) Norwegian Polar Institute
10. Vacancy: Ph.D. student, Inst for Meteorology & Climate Research (Germany) Data Announcement: The ISLSCP Initiative II
Meeting and Workshop Announcements
11. 3rd Pan-GCSS meeting on Clouds, Climate and Models
12. Sea Ice Mass Budget of the Arctic (SIMBA) Workshop: Bridging Regional
to Global Scales
13. 2005 Science and Engineering Visualization Competition
14. Ensemble Workshop (2004) Report
15. SOLAS SUMMER SCHOOL 2005
16. Spring AGU Meeting Sessions
CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS (for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html)
January 2005:
9 - 14: AMS Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA)
26 - 28: US CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee Meeting (Miami, FL)
26 - 28: Layered Ocean Model Workshop (Miami, FL)
31 - 2 February: US CLIVAR Atlantic Science Conference (Miami, FL) February 2005:
3: Tropical Atlantic Climate Experiment (TACE) Meeting (Miami, FL)
8-11: NOAA/GCOS Workshop to Define Climate Requirements for Upper Air Observations March 2005:
1-4: International Workshop on Analyses of Climate Model Simulations for
the IPCC AR4 (Honolulu, HI)
9-11: NAME Data Analysis Meeting (Mexico City, Mexico)
13-18: 5th Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science (Ventura, CA)
14-18: ARM Science Meeting (Daytona Beach, FL)
20-23: SCOR/IMAGES Workshop on Paleocean Circulation (Atlanta, GA)
Research
Opportunities and Calls for Papers
1. Call For Proposals For Project Columbia High-end Computing Resources
Release Date: 10 December 2004
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2005
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) solicits proposals for using the
recently installed Project Columbia supercomputer system to support currently
funded research investigations in Earth and space science. Only investigators
who are currently funded by SMD are eligible to apply, and proposals must
address research investigations that have been selected through peer review
process for support by SMD. Selected proposals will receive allocations of
computing resources for the calendar year 2005 and will be eligible to receive
technical support on the Columbia supercomputer system. No direct funding
will be provided through this allocation process. Future allocation opportunities
will be announced at approximately six-month intervals.
Project Columbia is an integrated
system of twenty 512-processor SGI Altix systems and a 440-terabyte SGI
InfiniteStorage solution to create the world's
largest Linux OS-based supercomputer. Powered by a total of 10,240 Intel
Itanium 2 processors, Project Columbia is equipping NASA sponsored scientists
with one of the most sophisticated and capable supercomputers in the world.
The unique shared memory architecture of the SGI Altix system allows each
one of the 512-processor clusters to share a single system image. Information
on the current Project Columbia supercomputer, including the architecture,
can be found at http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Systems/columbia.html.
In allocating its portion of Project Columbia's resources, SMD will give
priority to problems that are not easily accommodated by commodity Linux
clusters and that take advantage of the shared memory architecture and other
unique capabilities of Project Columbia. Proposals will be assessed for technical
requirements (e.g., amount of computing resources requested, necessity and
appropriateness for Columbia class system, etc.), as well as for programmatic
priorities by a panel of NASA program managers and discipline scientists,
along with other invited experts. Final decisions regarding allocations will
be made by the Deputy Associate Administrator of the NASA Science Mission
Directorate and will be announced in February 2005.
Instructions for the on-line proposal submission process can be found at
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Users/Accounts/pi_science.html. A proposal cover
sheet, abstract, number of processor hours requested, and technical proposal
(3 page limit), are required. No hard copy submission will be accepted.
Any questions should be directed to Mr. Joe Bredekamp (202-358-2348; joe.bredekamp@nasa.gov)
or Dr. Tsengdar Lee (202-358-0860; tsengdar.j.lee@nasa.gov) at NASA Headquarters.
Your interest in participating in this opportunity is appreciated.
2. Partnerships for International Research and Education
This program solicitation is a one-time opportunity issued by the Office
of International Science and Engineering (ISE) in the Office of the
Director at the National Science Foundation.
Full Solicitation NSF 05-533 http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf05533
Deadline: March 10, 2005
Science and engineering are increasingly global. Cutting-edge research
is being conducted worldwide, and new ideas emerge from the intellectual
interactions
of people with diverse backgrounds. Consequently, U.S. scientists and
engineers and their institutions must be globally engaged and able
to operate in teams
comprised of partners from different nations and cultural backgrounds.
International partnerships are, and will be, increasingly indispensable
in addressing many
critical global scientific and engineering problems. Partnerships for
International Research and Education awards will enable U.S. institutions
to develop longer-term, collaborative international
research and education programs with foreign partners. Successful proposals
will describe
science and engineering research projects that are based on integrated
and synergistic international collaborations, and will explain how
the complementary
strengths of the collaborating institutions will be used to enable
and sustain a longer-term program. Partnerships for International Research
and Education
will enable U.S. institutions to establish collaborative relationships
with foreign groups or institutions in order to advance specific research
and
education objectives and to make possible a research effort that neither
side could accomplish on its own. The program is intended to catalyze
a cultural change in U.S. institutions by establishing innovative new
models for international
collaborative research and education. It is also intended to facilitate
greater diversity in student participation and preparation, and to
contribute to
the development of a diverse, globally-engaged, science and engineering
workforce.
It is the intention of NSF to issue only a limited number of awards
under this solicitation. Partnerships for International Research and
Education
is a special, one-time Program Solicitation by the Office of International
Science and Engineering.
Cognizant Program Officer:
Edward O. Murdy, Senior Program Manager
Office of the Director, Office of International Science and Engineering
Phone: 703-292-8711
E-mail: emurdy@nsf.gov
3. The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program at Department of the
Navy Laboratories
The ONR and The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program at Department
of the Navy Laboratories (http://www.awu.org/onr/) at NRL Monterey
have been
quite successful working with undergraduates and often continues
to work with them throughout their remaining college years. The
Aerosol
and Radiation
Modeling Section in particular is interested in working with students
in the experimental, modeling, or remote sensing fields. We are
interested in
students with a purely computer science background as well. The
deadline for applications is January 15th, 2005.
For further information contact:
Jeffrey S. Reid, Ph.D.
Aerosol and Radiation Modeling Section
Marine Meteorology Division | phone: (831) 656-4725
Naval Research Laboratory | fax: (831) 656-4769
7 Grace Hopper Ave., Stop 2 | email: reidj@nrlmry.navy.mil
Monterey, CA 93943-5502
4. The Omnibus NASA Research Announcement (NRA) entitled "Research
Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2005 (ROSES-05)"
In late January 2005, the NASA Science Mission Directorate (which
replaced both the Office of Earth Science and the Office of Space
Science) will
release a single NRA entitled Research Opportunities in Space
and Earth Sciences
- 2005 (ROSES-05). ROSES-05 replaces the approximately 5-10 individual
Earth Science NRAís that have been routinely released in previous years.
The ROSES-05 NRA essentially covers every research opportunity in Earth and
space science that NASA is soliciting in 2005. These research opportunities
are referred to in this NRA as "program elements," each
of which is described by a single section in the Appendix. The ROSES-05
NRA is very
similar to the ROSS-04 NRA for space science, with the addition of
approximately
17 program elements in Earth science for 2005. The ROSS-04 NRA may
be found at http://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_s/nra/current/NNH04ZSS001N/index.html.
The body of the ROSES-05 NRA provides uniform guidelines for
the submission, evaluation, selection, and implementation of
awards
in response to
all of the program elements solicited. Unless specifically stated
otherwise in ROSES-05,
all proposals submitted to all program elements will follow the
guidelines provided in the 2005 edition of the NASA Guidebook
for Proposers (the
2004 edition is available at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/nraguidebook/).
Appendix A of the ROSES-05 NRA contains approximately 23 program
elements in Earth-Sun System research, Appendix B contains approximately
18
program
elements in Solar System research, Appendix C contains approximately
10 program elements in Universe research, and Appendix D contains
approximately 2 program
elements in Multidisciplinary research. The earliest due dates
for proposals for program elements are about 75 days after this NRA release
date, while the remaining
due dates
are staggered
through the end of 2005. Once it is released, you are urged to
examine this ROSES-05 NRA carefully both for its possible interest
to you in
terms of
submitting a proposal to the program element(s) of interest,
as well as its requirements (incorporating the NASA Guidebook
for
Proposers)
that establish
common proposal formats and submission procedures for all program
elements. This standardization should make it much easier for
the community to
respond to NASA Research Announcements.
Questions about ROSES-05 may be addressed to Dr. Paul Hertz,
Assistant Associate Administrator for Science, Science Mission
Directorate,
NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC 20546-0001; E-mail: paul.hertz@nasa.gov; Telephone:
202-358-0986.
5. Collaboration in Mathematical Geoscience competition: NSF
Program
Solicitation (NSF 05-535)
For more information refer to the following website: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf05535
Full Proposal Deadline:(due by 5:00 p.m. proposer's local
time)
Monday, 14 March 2005
In many areas within the geosciences, researchers at the
frontiers of theory, experimental science and modeling confront
problems
for which currently applied
mathematical or statistical approaches are insufficient.
In mathematics and statistics, geoscience problems can serve
as the impetus
for fundamental research in the mathematical sciences. To
effectively meet these challenges
requires the combined efforts of geoscientists and mathematical
scientists.
The purposes of the Collaboration in Mathematical Geoscience
activity are:
-To enable collaborative research at the intersection of
mathematical sciences and geosciences, and to encourage cross-disciplinary
education through (1)
summer graduate training activities and (2) opportunities
for
interdisciplinary post-doctoral research. Research topics
should fall within one of three broad themes: (1) mathematical and statistical
modeling of large, complex
geosystems, (2) representing
uncertainty in geosystems, or (3) analyzing large geoscience
data
sets. Research projects supported under this activity must
be essentially collaborative in nature. Research groups must include at
least one mathematical scientist
and at least one geoscientist. This competition represents
an excellent opportunity for the Arctic geoscience community to collaborate
with mathematicians
and statisticians
to attack
longstanding problems in the Arctic.
If you have questions relating to polar studies that might
be submitted to this competition, please contact:
William Wiseman
Email: wwiseman@nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-4750.
More about the Geosciences and Mathematics and Physical Sciences
directorates, the NSF Grant Proposal Guide and other information
can be found on
the NSF web site at: http://www.nsf.gov/
6. 15th Conference on Applied Climatology, 20-24 June 2005,
Savannah, Georgia
The 15th Conference on Applied Climatology sponsored by the
American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS
Committee on
Applied Climatology, will
be held during the week of 20-24 June 2005 at the DeSoto
Hilton Hotel in Savannah, Georgia. The conference will be
co-located
with the 13th
Symposium
on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation (SMOI)
and the American Association of State Climatologists Annual
Meeting.
Preliminary
programs,
registration, hotel, and general information will be posted
on the AMS Web site (www.ametsoc.org) in mid-February 2005.
The meeting is being organized
around two broad themes. The first is "Measuring
the Climate," in conjunction with the SMOI. Papers
are solicited under this theme, with possible sessions
including
data quality assurance
and
metadata; national, regional and local mesonets, including
the Integrated Surface Observing
System (ISOS); meteorological equipment issues in climate
studies; and snow measurements. The second broad theme
for this meeting is "Applied Climatology for
Decision-Making." Many management, planning and
policy decisions regarding society and environment are
sensitive to climate, in areas including resource
management, water supply, agricultural productivity,
economic development, drought and flood mitigation, and
many more. All of these require the development
of applied climate knowledge and services at a range
of spatial and temporal scales. Papers addressing the
broad theme of "Applied Climatology for
Decision-Making" and closely-related topics such
as integrated assessment and climate services are highly
encouraged.
Other
possible special sessions
include drought, spatial climate, and urban climatology.
Please submit your abstract electronically
via the Web by 4 February 2005 (refer to the AMS Web page at www.ametsoc.org
for instructions.)
An abstract
fee of $60 (payable by credit card or purchase order)
is
charged at the time of submission (refundable only
if abstract is not
accepted). Authors of accepted presentations will be
notified (via e-mail) by mid-March 2005. A preprint CDROM is being prepared;
authors
of invited
and accepted
papers will be asked to contribute to this volume.
All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available
online via the Web. Instructions for formatting extended manuscripts for
the
preprint CD-ROM will be posted on the AMS Web site.
Manuscripts (up to
3 MB) must be
submitted electronically by 25 April 2005 to AMS Headquarters.
A manuscript charge
will be collected to defray the cost of the preprint
CD-ROM, as well as Web posting of the manuscript and recorded meeting presentation.
Registrants
will receive a
preprint CDROM
at the conference. For additional information please
contact the program chairperson, Greg Johnson, USDA-NRCS, National Water
and Climate Center,
Portland OR 97204
(tel. 503-414-3017; fax 503-414-3101; email: gjohnson@wcc.nrcs.usda.gov).
(7/04, r9/04)
7. 13th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
(SMOI), 20-24 June 2005, Savannah, Georgia
The 13th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
(SMOI), sponsored by the American Meteorological
Society and organized by the
AMS Committee on Measurements, will be held during
the week of 20-24 June 2005
at the DeSoto Hilton Hotel in Savannah, Georgia.
The conference will be co-located with the 15th Conference on Applied
Climatology and the
American Association
of State Climatologists Annual Meeting. The overarching
theme is "Monitoring
the Climate". Preliminary programs, registration,
hotel, and general information will be posted on
the AMS Web site
(www.ametsoc.org)
in mid-February
2005. Papers are invited under this theme that include,
integrated instrumentation and networks for climate
studies, data quality
control/metadata,
network design, accuracy and calibration of instrumentation
and in particular
measurements of solid precipitation. Papers are also
solicited for this symposium on all
aspects of observations and instrumentation including
use of high quality radiosondes for reference measurements,
experience
and
perspectives
on the use of upper-air systems, and possible means
to minimize the impact on the
cost of the continuous improvements of instruments.
Papers dealing
with innovative measurement systems, specialized
instrumentation, important experiments or
successful field projects should emphasize their
contribution to improving weather forecasting and
detecting long term
climate changes.
In addition
we will be accepting proposals for thematic sessions
that will complement these two symposia. This will
require the
proposed
organizer to define
the topic and obtain a sufficient number of presentations
for the session. The deadline for this will be 1
January 2005.
Please submit your abstract electronically
via the Web by 4 February 2005 (refer to the AMS Web page
at www.ametsoc.org
for instructions.)
An abstract
fee of $60 (payable by credit card or purchase
order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable
only if abstract
is not
accepted). Papers received
from students will be considered for partial financial
help upon written
request. Authors of accepted presentations will
be notified (via e-mail) by mid-March 2005. A preprint CDROM
is being prepared; authors
of invited
and accepted
papers will be asked to contribute to this volume.
All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available
online via the Web. Instructions for formatting extended manuscripts
for the preprint CD-ROM will be posted on the AMS
Web site. Manuscripts
(up to
3 MB) must be
submitted electronically by 25 April 2005 to AMS
Headquarters. A manuscript charge
will be collected to defray the cost of the preprint
CD-ROM, as well as Web posting of the manuscript
and recorded meeting
presentation.
Registrants
will receive a preprint CDROM at the conference.
For further information contact C. Bruce Baker, U.S.
Dept. Commerce / NOAA, National Climatic Data Center,
151 Patton
Avenue, Asheville,
NC
28801 (tel: 828-271-4018; email: Bruce.Baker@noaa.gov).
(7/04, r9/04)
Position Announcements
8. NASA GSFC Positions Available
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
Positions Available in Oceanography, Hydrology, Terrestrial
Ecology, and Remote Sensing Measurement Techniques
The Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
(HBSL) at NASA‚s
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland invites applications for
several positions in this newly restructured Laboratory. The mission of the
Laboratory is to explore and understand the Earth‚s
hydrosphere and biosphere, including the transport
and storage of water
in all its forms,
the processes that support life on Earth, and
the linkages between the hydrosphere, climate
and life.
We are seeking
individuals with
expertise
as physical and
biological oceanographers, hydrologists, cryospheric
scientists, biospheric scientists/terrestrial
ecologists, or in the
development, testing and
utilization of innovative measurement techniques
as applied to key Earth science research
issues and their relationships to NASA's vision
(http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html)
for space exploration. We are particularly seeking
those interested in research from a remote sensing
perspective.
Experience with
NASA Earth
science missions
and/or a related research activity is highly
desirable. A Ph.D., or equivalent experience
related to the
areas of expertise
listed above, is preferred.
Applicants should have a demonstrated record
of research that includes publication of significant
results in
the scientific
literature.
We encourage young professionals
as well as those having a strong background in
leadership and planning of programs and activities.
Most positions
are U.S.
Civil Service
term appointments
available for U.S. citizens. These positions
are
analogous to university tenure-track positions
and may lead to
career civil service appointments.
Salary will be commensurate with experience and
qualifications at the GS-12 through 15 levels
(currently $60,638 -
$130,305 per year).
Additional
information
and instructions on how to apply can be found
in the job opportunities section of the Laboratory
website
(http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov). We will begin
to
review applications by late-January 2005; however,
there is
no official closing date for this solicitation.
9.
Director of CliC International
Project Office
(CIPO) Norwegian Polar Institute
Tromso, Norway
Application Deadline: Tuesday, 15 February
2005
To view the complete announcement, please go
to: http://cipo.npolar.no/vacancy/director.php
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) invite
applications
for the position
of Director
of the Climate and
Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office
(CIPO). The Director of the Project Office
takes a leading
role in the
international
co-ordination and
support of CliC activities, and ensures that
the Project Office operates efficiently and
actively
serves the needs
of the project
and its scientists.
More information on the project including its
Science and Coordination plan is available
at the web site
http://clic.npolar.no.
The
CIPO web site is
located at http://cipo.npolar.no.
POSITION INFORMATION
The successful applicant will be expected to
commence duties on 1 July 2005, or as soon
as possible thereafter.
The Project
Office
is based
at the Norwegian
Polar Institute (NPI) located in Tromso, Norway
(see http://www.npolar.no for more details
on the NPI).
The successful applicant will
be recruited as a member of NPI staff and be
responsible to the
Director, NPI, on
administrative matters of direct relevance
to NPI. A four-year commitment to the task
is
expected, with the possibility of extension.
The remuneration and other conditions of service
will
be negotiated with the
NPI according
to
qualifications, but
are expected to be at the professor level.
The successful candidate will be expected to
have:
- a Ph.D. or equivalent qualification in atmospheric,
oceanographic, environmental, or other climate-related
sciences (expertise
in climate studies related to
the cryosphere would be especially appropriate);
- a broad knowledge of climate, cryospheric,
and other related "Earth
system" science;
- the ability to communicate effectively with
a broad range of project stake holders, including
scientists
and students
from
a wide range
of disciplines
and backgrounds, data managers, funding agency
staff, policy makers, managers of scientific
programmes
and institutes,
technical and
other support staff;
- fluency in writing and speaking English (ability
to work in other languages will be an advantage);
- previous involvement in the organization
of multi-disciplinary scientific projects;
- demonstrated ability to manage a small team
responsible for supporting an international
scientific project
(this will include,
but is
not limited to, the provision of secretariat
support for meetings; producing
reports
of meetings and project plans; ensuring a timely
flow of information to stakeholders through
publications and web-based
systems, organizing
and supporting international
conferences, work with budgets/resources, etc.);
- knowledge of national/international sources
and the processes of funding for large-scale
scientific
programmes (familiarity
with earth
system science
research organizations/programmes would be
an advantage); and
- the ability to build public relations and
promote CliC internationally.
Applications from suitably qualified female
and male candidates are equally welcome.
Applications should be addressed to:
Dr Vladimir Ryabinin
Joint Planning Staff for WCRP World Climate
Research Programme
c/o World Meteorological Organisation
Phone: + 41 (0) 22 730 8486
Fax: + 41 (0) 22 730 8036
E-mail: vryabinin@wmo.int
Submission of applications by e-mail is strongly
encouraged. Applicants should submit a complete
curriculum vitae, the
names and contact
details of three
persons willing to provide letters of recommendation,
and a statement (2-4 pages) saying what the
applicant would bring
to this job
and which personal
skills and experience would allow him/her to
meet the selection criteria. Receipt of the
applications
will be acknowledged
by e-mail. Please
do not include text or copies of articles or
originals of diplomas in the application,
but note that the latter may eventually be
required.
10. Vacancy: Ph.D. student, Inst for Meteorology & Climate
Research (Germany)
Job description:
Within the framework of the EU-funded AMMA-EU
project (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary
Analysis) - looking
for a PhD student. Main focus of the work
is the hydrological-biological simulation of water, carbon and nitrogen
cycles in Savannah environment
in West Africa.
A framework
for coupling the available stand alone hydrological
and process oriented bio-geochemical models
has to be developed. The
model system has to
be adapted to Savannah environment and validated
against observations. Willingness for
interdisciplinary research and participation
in field activities (in particular Burkina
Faso, Africa) is
expected. The PhD
work is part
of an international
project. We offer a well-equipped working
place with access to high-performance computers.
Personal Qualification:
Diploma/Master in geoecology, physics, hydrology,
environmental sciences/engineering or computer
sciences, as well as interest
in numerical simulations
and the development of methods. Good programming
skills in C and/or Fortran and experience
with the operating systems LINUX/UNIX. Basic
knowledge of French language.
Institute:
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research
(IMK-IFU), Location: Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany
Duration of Contract: 3 years
Starting Date:1.2.2005
Applications:
Please send your applications including job-posting-number
to Prof. Dr. W. Seiler, IMK-IFU. Information
on the research topic
is given
by Dr. Harald
Kunstmann, Telephone (++49) (0)8821-183 208
(email: harald.kunstmann@imk.fzk.de). Further
information
on the project can also be found under
http://amma.africa-web.org/FP6/index.html.
Postal Adress:
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research
(IMK-IFU) Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe GmbH
Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19
82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen / Germany
Data Announcement
The ISLSCP Initiative II data collection
is now complete and can be accessed at http://islscp2.sesda.com.
The ISLSCP Initiative
II data
collection contains
50 global time series spanning the ten-year
period
1986 to 1995 designed to support investigations
of the global carbon,
water
and energy cycle.
Selected data sets span even longer periods.
The data were acquired from a number
of U.S. and international agencies, universities
and institutions, then co-registered to equal-angle
grids of one degree, one-half
and one-quarter degree resolution
and reformatted into a common ASCII format.
Each data set has been
documented. The data and documentation has
undergone two peer reviews. Overview and
user
guidance documentation will be furnished
with the
final DVD product.
ISLSCP Initiative II would not have been
possible without the unswerving support of
the international
Global Water
and Energy
Cycle Experiment
(GEWEX) community, and with funds from several
NASA program elements, including Hydrology,
Terrestrial Ecology and Earth Science Information
Partners (see web site for more details).
While the ISLSCP Initiative II collection
is complete and available on line, the final
product
will be
published on
DVDs. Over the
next six months we
invite your participation in an evaluation
of the on-line collection, which will bring
to the broader
community's attention
this important
data collection,
and provide a thorough evaluation across
the entire collection and its user interface.
We
are planning
a science workshop
for you to present
and discuss
the results of your analyses with your colleagues
on May 4th, 5th and 6th of 2005 in the Greenbelt,
MD area. At that
workshop
we
plan to
release the
final DVD version of that data collection
and organize a special issue, perhaps in
JGR, to
publish the science
results
from your
activities.
We will augment
the collection in the months following the
workshop with findings from the workshop.
Because ISLSCP is
a project within
GEWEX,
members of
the GEWEX
community are particularly encouraged by
GEWEX management to participate in the evaluation
of the Initiative
II data collection.
Meeting
and Workshop Announcements
11. 3rd Pan-GCSS meeting on Clouds, Climate
and Models
16-20 May 2005 - Royal Olympic Hotel
- Athens - Greece
Sponsored by NASA, U.S. Department of
Energy's ARM program, the U.S. National
Science Foundation,
the
World Climate Research
Program and
the University
of Athens
The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) investigates
cloud systems, their role in the climate
system and their
representation in models with
a view to
improving our ability to predict weather
and climate using state-of-the-art modelling
and data assimilation systems. GCSS will
hold
a workshop to review current research
activities on clouds,
convection and
precipitation
from 16-20
May 2005 at the Royal Olympic Hotel (www.royalolympic.com)
in Athens, Greece.Key areas to be discussed
at the meeting are:
o Methodologies and metrics in assessing
clouds and precipitation in model simulations
o The fundamental role of precipitation
in cloud systems
o Progress in the representation of clouds
in large-scale and cloud-system models
Contributions to the meeting are
sought in these key areas as well as other areas
of
related cloud
research. All contributions
are
expected to be in
the form of a poster. The programme
committee will select contributions
of particular interest in each of the
three key areas for additional oral
presentation in the meeting's morning plenary sessions.
Meetings of the GCSS working groups
on boundary
layer clouds,
cirrus, extra-tropical
cloud systems,
deep convective
systems and polar clouds will be held
in the afternoons of 16-19
May. Submissions should be made by emailing
a short abstract (< 500
words) by 15 February 2005 to the chair
of the programme committee, Dr Christian
Jakob (c.jakob@bom.gov.au).
Registration for the meeting is required.
A registration form is available from
www.gewex.org/gcss.html. A
block of rooms at
the
Royal Olympic
Hotel has been reserved at the special
rate of 120 Euros per room per night.
Room
preferences should be indicated on the
registration form. Hotel reservations
will be made for
meeting
participants
as part of
the registration process.
The registration deadline is 15 February
2005.
Travel support for the meeting is limited.
Participants, in particular students,
who require support, are
asked to contact Christian
Jakob (c.jakob@bom.gov.au)
or George Tselioudis (gtselioudis@giss.nasa.gov)
as soon as possible and no later than
1 February 2005.
12. Sea Ice Mass Budget of the Arctic
(SIMBA) Workshop: Bridging Regional
to Global Scales""
Seattle, WA
28 February - 2 March 2005
Application Deadline: Thursday, 6
January 2005
For further information, please go
to: http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/workshops/SIMBA_2005/index.php
Arctic sea ice has undergone remarkable
changes over the last three decades.
It is just beginning
to be
documented
how these
changes
relate to multi-decadal
and inter-annual variability of the
sea ice pack. The relation of sea
ice change
to the
global system
is even less well
understood. Changes
in the
Arctic sea ice cover may have profound
effects on Arctic ecology, economic
activities in
the Arctic,
and global climate.
This workshop
will discuss
changes in the sea ice state that
affect Arctic wide and global systems
and seek
recommendations of the
scales and
processes
over which the
variability
of the Arctic sea ice mass budget
should be
analyzed and monitored. The workshop
will also cover current
knowledge
of Arctic wide
sea ice mass balance and
variability, and determine where
new observation and/or modelling
campaigns
are required to
improve understanding of the variability
of the sea
ice thickness distribution and the
mechanisms influencing this. A pan-Arctic
observing
system is anticipated in the future.
This workshop will consider the sea
ice component
of such
an observing system and discuss
how to monitor
the
Northern Hemisphere sea ice mass
budget.
If you are interested in participating
in this workshop, please provide
a statement of your
interest at:
http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/workshops/SIMBA_2005/workshop_application.php
For more information contact:
Jenny Hutchings
E-mail: jenny@iarc.uaf.edu
Participation of scientists studying
processes integral to the Arctic
sea ice mass balance
and those studying
systems
that are
influenced
by Arctic
sea ice processes are particularly
encouraged. There are limited travel
funds available
for junior scientists
and
the economically
disadvantaged. The workshop is sponsored
by the National Science Foundation and will
be jointly
hosted by the
International Arctic Research
Center
and the
University
of Washington.
13. Call for Entries
2005 Science and Engineering Visualization
Competition
Entry Submission Deadline: 31
May 2005
For further information, please
go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/sevc
To recognize and encourage visualization
in the communication of science,
and to showcase the exceptional
talents of those who work
in this
area, the National Science Foundation
and the journal "Science",
published by the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), are
cosponsoring the annual Science
and Engineering Visualization Challenge. This international
contest is designed to recognize
outstanding achievements by scientists, engineers, visualization
specialists,
and artists in
the use of visual
media to promote understanding
of research results and scientific phenomena.
Principal investigators are encouraged to submit
their visual images for the 2005 competition.
Judges will select winners in each
of five categories: photographs, illustrations,
informational graphics, interactive
media,
and non-interactive media.
The winners will be published
in a
special section of the September 23,
2005
issue of the journal "Science" and "Science Online." The
National Science Foundation will
publish the winners on its web
site as well.
Additional information about
the Science and Engineering Visualization
Competition
can be
found on the web
at: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/sevc
14.
Ensemble Workshop (2004) Report
The Workshop on Ensemble Methods,
held at the Met Office, October
18-21, 2004
was very
successful.
The wide interest
and activity
in ensemble
approaches and methods was
clearly reflected in the
enthusiasm expressed for attending
the Workshop (over 160 registrants)
and in the scientific level
of the presentations
made (10 invited and approximately
50 each
oral and
poster presentations).
To view the electronic Proceedings
of the
Workshop: http://cccma.seos.uvic.ca/ensemble/
15. SOLAS SUMMER SCHOOL 2005
29 Aug -10 Sept 2005, at the
Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques
de Carg, Corsica,
France.
** Online application now open
**
The SOLAS Summer School is
a biennial, international event
that brings together
over 70 students
and 20 lecturers for
a mix of
lectures and
practical workshops.
It aims to teach the skills
and
knowledge of the many disciplines
needed to
understand the
nature
of biogeochemical and physical
ocean-atmosphere
interactions. It allows doctoral
students and early-career researchers
to see how
their work
fits into the broad
canvas of SOLAS, and
global change
research more generally.
We encourage applications from
any doctoral students or early-career
scientist interested
in SOLAS science
and have some funds
available to support attendance.
Application for the 2005 school
is now open. For online application,
details
of the programme
and
more information see: http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/summerschool/
SOLAS (The Surface Ocean -
Lower Atmosphere Study) is
an international
research initiative
which has
as its goal: “
To achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical
interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere, and how
this coupled system affects and is affected by climate and environmental
change”.
You can find out more about
the work of SOLAS, and what
is happening
in
your country at:
http://www.solas-int.org16.
Spring AGU meeting in New Orleans,
23-27 May 2005
Several sessions proposed of
interest to the CLIVAR community
listed below:
A05: Attribution of Climate
Variability During the Last
100 Years
A06: The Strengths and Limitations
of First Generation Reanalyses
for
Understanding Climate Variability
and Trends
A07: The Human Ecological Footprint
and Earth's Climate
A08: Modeling, Simulating,
and Forecasting Subseasonal
Atmospheric
Variability
A09: Outstanding Issues in
Seasonal to Interannual Climate
Prediction
A10: Ensemble Forecasts for
Weather and Seasonal Climate
A12: Anthropogenic Influence
on Tropospheric and Surface
Temperature Trends ˆ
Intercomparison Between Models
and Observations
AGU meeting, and the abstract
submission information, is
available from: http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm05/
February 2005
U.S. CLIVAR News-gram
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i – Calendar of Upcoming Events
3: Tropical
Atlantic Climate Experiment (TACE) Meeting (Miami, FL)
8-11: NOAA/GCOS Workshop to Define Climate Requirements for Upper Air Observations
March 2005:
1-4: International Workshop on Analyses
of Climate Model Simulations for the IPCC AR4 (Honolulu, HI)
9-11: North American Monsoon Experiment
(NAME) Data Analysis Meeting (Mexico City, Mexico)
13-18: 5th Gordon Research
Conference on Polar Marine Science (Ventura, CA)
14-18: ARM Science
Meeting (Daytona Beach, FL)
20-23: SCOR/IMAGES Workshop
on Paleocean Circulation (Atlanta, GA)
April 2005:
19-21: 16th Global Warming International
Conference (New York City, NY)
26-28: NOAA Climate Observation Workshop
(Silver Spring, MD)
Research Opportunities and Calls for Papers
1. NASA Research
Opportunities for 2005
NNH05ZDA001N,
entitled "Research
Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2005 (ROSES-2005)," is
now available by opening the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at:
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and then linking through the menu listings "Solicitations" to "Open
Solicitations." This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits proposals
for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad
range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more
of the three defined NASA science themes: Earth-Sun System, Solar System,
and Universe. Proposal due dates are scheduled starting on April 8, 2005,
and continue through February 10, 2006. Electronically submitted Notices
of Intent to propose are requested for all program elements, with the first
such due date being February 18, 2005. The electronic submission of each proposal's
Cover Page / Proposal Summary / Budget Summary is required by the respective
due dates for proposal submission, and must be submitted by an authorized
official of the proposing organization. Participation is open to all categories
of organizations, foreign and domestic, including educational institutions,
industry, nonprofit organizations, NASA centers, and other Government agencies.
Earth
Science Programs Covered under this solicitation include:
LAND
COVER/LAND USE CHANGE
LARGE
SCALE BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE EXPERIMENT IN AMAZïNIA
TERRESTRIAL
ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY
OCEAN
BIOLOGY AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
NORTH
AMERICAN CARBON PROGRAM
REMOTE
SENSING SCIENCE FOR CARBON AND CLIMATE
OCEAN
VECTOR WINDS SCIENCE TEAM
ICE
CLOUD AND LAND ELEVATION SATELLITE (ICESAT) AND CRYOSAT
CLOUDSAT
AND CALIPSO SCIENCE TEAM AND MODELING/ANALYSIS OF A-TRAIN RELATED DATA
NASA
ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE STUDY
TERRESTRIAL
HYDROLOGY
PRECIPITATION
SCIENCE
ATMOSPHERIC
COMPOSITION
DECISION
SUPPORT THROUGH EARTH-SUN SCIENCE RESEARCH RESULTS
NEW
INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM IN EARTH-SUN SYSTEM SCIENCE
ADVANCING
COLLABORATIVE CONNECTIONS FOR EARTH-SUN SYSTEM SCIENCE
EARTH-SUN
SYSTEM SCIENCE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND APPLICATIONS SOLUTIONS NETWORK (REASON)
ADVANCED
COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY
2. The New Faculty Fellowship Program at NCAR
The Advanced Study Program (ASP) is pleased to announce the Faculty Fellowship
Program (FFP) which is designed to foster fruitful and lasting intellectual
collaborations and partnerships between university faculty and the NCAR staff.
The FFP provides opportunities and resources for faculty employed at universities
to work in residence at NCAR, and enables NCAR Scientists (Staff, Project,
and Associate Scientists including Senior Research Associates) to spend a
period of time in residence at US universities.
Visit the ASP Faculty Fellowship Program web
site at http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ffp/ for details regarding eligibility, selection
criteria, and the application procedure and deadline
Position Announcements
3. Canada Research Chair in Ocean Prediction
The Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University seeks an excellent
candidate for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Ocean Prediction. The spatial
scales of interest range from basin to global, and the time scales from seasonal
to interannual and decadal. A major focus is the incorporation of ecological
and biogeochemical processes into coupled, ocean-atmosphere models, developed
and evaluated through quantitative comparison of model predictions and observations.
See http://science.dal.ca/fos_6365.html. Deadline: 1 March 2005
4. Executive Officer for IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem
Research) international project.
IMBER is a new international research project focussed on marine biogeochemical
and ecosystem research (www.IMBER.info). IMBER is seeking to appoint an Executive
Officer to lead the International Project Office (IPO) at the Institut Universitaire
Europeen de la Mer, Brest, France. IUEM is a joint institute between CNRS
and the University of Western Brittany. The Executive Officer will be assisted
by a Deputy Executive Officer and an Administrative Assistant. The tasks
of the Executive Officer and IPO staff include assisting the SSC in implementing
the IMBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy, organising and servicing
meetings of the SSC, working groups and task teams, liaising with the sponsors
(IGBP and SCOR) and other relevant organisations, seeking and managing project
finances, representing the project at international meetings, maintaining
the project website and interacting with IMBER national committees and groups,
as well as other international projects. For this senior post we seek a candidate
with a strong track record in scientific coordination, as well as familiarity,
and preferably some experience, in the IMBER research area. Experience of
coordination of international science projects would be an advantage. Some
international travel will be involved. The successful candidate will have
excellent interpersonal and administrative abilities, be fluent in English
and have first-class skills in both written and verbal communication. This
post is available for three years and will be filled as soon as possible.
Starting salary will be in the range of 36,700 to 53,000 Euros, dependent
on the relevant skills, knowledge and experience that the post holder brings
to the role.
Details of the IMBER project can be viewed at www.IMBER.info Informal enquiries
should be made to Dr Julie Hall, Tel: +64 7 856 1709; Fax: +64 7 856 0151;
e-mail: j.hall@niwa.co.nz
Applications, to include a CV, and the names and contacts for three referees
should be sent to:
Dr Julie Hall, NIWA
PO Box 11 115
Hamilton, New Zealand or j.hall@niwa.co.nz
or Fax 64 7 856 0151
By February 14th, 2005.
NASA Earth Science & Applications Strategic Roadmap Committee Announced
NASA
has announced the membership and charter of an "Earth Science & Applications
from Space" committee that will provide advice and recommendations
to NASA on research and technology development to advance Earth observation
from space, improvement of scientific understanding, and demonstration
of new technologies with the potential to improve future operational
systems. Committee recommendations will help guide NASA's program development,
prioritization,
and long-range planning.
You are invited to provide comments on the prospectuses for three (of the
21) Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Synthesis and Assessment Products:
* 2.1 Scenarios of Greenhouse
Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations and
Review of Integrated Scenario Development and Application
* 2.2 North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon
Cycle
* 3.1 Climate Models and Their
Uses and Limitations: Climate Sensitivity,
Feedbacks, and Uncertainties.
The CCSP has also released guidelines
for the synthesis and assessment products (<http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap-guidelines.htm>).
These guidelines establish a broadly standardized methodology for product
development
that will facilitate involvement of the research community and the public
in ensuring that the products are focused in a useful fashion and meet the
highest standards of scientific excellence. The prospectuses have a special
purpose within the guidelines' standardized methodology, namely to describe
the proposed focus and process that will be used to prepare each of the products.
Expert and public comments are requested as part of the open approach that
has been a hallmark of the CCSP process.
Comments are due by 7 March 2005. All comments submitted by that time will be thoroughly
evaluated and, if appropriate, incorporated in the final prospectuses.
The comments and final prospectus will be posted on the CCSP web site.
Instructions for providing input have been customized for each product and
are available as follows:
<http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/default.htm> and
click on URLs of interest to view prospectuses, and for the instructions
on how
to provide comments.
To ensure that your comments are routed correctly, please submit them to
the e-mail addresses below:
2.1-scenarios@climatescience.gov
2.2-soccr@climatescience.gov
3.1-climatemodels@climatescience.gov
Meeting and Workshop Announcements
5. First Announcement for 'AMMA 2005 DAKAR'
The "African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis" (AMMA)
program is pleased to announce that the 'AMMA 2005 DAKAR' international
conference
will be held in Dakar, SENEGAL, during November 28 - December 2, 2005. 'AMMA
2005 DAKAR' is the First International AMMA Conference on the West African
Monsoon.
Conference sessions will be devoted to papers that address the five principal
AMMA themes: 1) West African Monsoon and Global Climate, 2) Water cycle,
3) Surface feedbacks, 4) Impacts and applications, 5) Weather Prediction
and Impacts.
Funding is expected to be available for participants from West African nations.
The deadline for submission of 250 words abstracts is July 15, 2005, and
the program will be announced in early September, 2005. Preliminary important
inquiries should be addressed to kane@paris.ird.fr. Details concerning submission
of abstracts will be provided in the Second Announcement.
See the web site http://medias.cnrs.fr/amma/ and mirror sites for information
on the international AMMA program. The International Organizing Committee
for AMMA 2005 DAKAR is being chaired by Bernard BOURLES (IRD, France, Bernard.bourles@ird.fr)
and Peter LAMB (Univ. of Oklahoma, USA, plamb@ou.edu).
6. EPIC Ocean Workshop
University of Washington; Marine Science Building 123; Seattle WA
Thurs 12 May - Friday 13 May 2005
BACKGROUND
The Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC) was a 5-year experiment
to study the stratus deck / cold tongue / ITCZ complex in the southerly wind
regime of the far eastern Pacific. Fieldwork included an intensive process
study (EPIC2001) embedded within enhanced monitoring along the easternmost
TAO line (95W) and in the stratus deck region at 20S, 85W. EPIC2001 occurred
in September -October 2001 and enhanced monitoring in the cold tongue / ITCZ
complex ended in November 2003.
We are now in the post-EPIC synthesis phase. In an effort to ensure that
the scientific and programmatic objectives of EPIC are met, there is a need
now for focused science workshops that include participation of modelers.
The first focused workshop is for EPIC Oceanography of the far eastern Pacific
cold tongue / ITCZ complex.
PURPOSE:
Guiding questions for this workshop are:
* Have we fulfilled our scientific objectives for EPIC?
* What are the legacies
of EPIC?
* How can EPIC observations be used for improving large scale ocean and
coupled climate models?
* What are the outstanding questions that could not be addressed by EPIC?
Focal issues include:
* Surface flux (forcing) fields
* Mixing processes in the cold
tongue / ITCZ complex
* Role of salinity & freshwater
flux
* Radiative penetration & Role of biology
* SST -- local vs. remote
forcing and model biases
A block of rooms has been set
aside at the University Inn under the name "EPIC-Oceans".
The hotel is within walking distance of MSB 123. Please make your own reservations
by 3/28.
Abstract submission for the AGU Spring meeting is February 10, 2005.
Some sessions that may of relevance
climate interest include:
A05: Attribution of Climate Variability During the Last 100 Years
A06: The Strengths and Limitations of First Generation Reanalyses for Understanding
Climate Variability and Trends
A08: Modeling, Simulating, and Forecasting Subseasonal Atmospheric Variability
A09: Outstanding Issues in Seasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction
A10: Ensemble Forecasts for Weather and Seasonal Climate
AGU meeting, and the abstract
submission information, is available from http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm05/
8. International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences 2005 Meeting
(Special Session announcement)
F2: Climate Variability
and Change in the Polar Regions: Causality and Prediction (ICPM, SCAR,
ICCL and PAGES) 2-11 August 2005
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 25 February 2005
For further information, please go to: http://www.iamas2005.com
The climate in many parts of the high latitudes is changing, and the influence
of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases is suspected to be a major
contributing factor. This symposium will examine observed and predicted climate
variability and change in both the Arctic and Antarctic in relation to the
dominant circulation modes (NAM/NAO, SAM/AAO, ENSO, etc.). Aspects to be
considered include:
- Can the signal of anthropogenic impact be distinguished from the background
of the strongly varying high latitude atmosphere? - Is there convincing evidence
of poleward amplification of climate change?
- What guidance on these issues does the recently completed Arctic Climate
Impact Assessment (ACIA) provide? - Can better descriptions of polar climate
be provided by polar regional reanalyses that exploit the voluminous satellite
observations? - What roles do coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-land surface
processes play in high latitude climate variability? - What impacts do stratospheric
processes have on tropospheric climate? - What are the relative roles of
tropical and high latitude forcing? - What are the linkages between polar
and midlatitude climate? - How well do global and regional models simulate
climate variability and change?
- What can be learned from bipolar analyses/modeling of Arctic and Antarctic
climates?
Conveners:
David Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University Phone:
614-292-6692
CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS (for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html) April 2005:
19-21: 16th Global Warming International Conference (New York City, NY)
25-27: NOAA Climate Observation Workshop (Silver Spring, MD) May 2005:
11-13: EPIC 2001 Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model Workshop (Seattle, WA)
17-19: Drought Prediction Workshop (College Park, MD) June 2005:
13-17: AMS Joint Conference on Atmospheric and Ocean Fluid Dynamics, Middle
Atmospheres and Climate Variability and Change (Boston, MA)
21-23: 10th Annual CCSM Meeting (Breckinridge, CO)
20-24: International GEWEX ConferenceResearch Opportunities and Calls for
Papers
Applicants are encouraged (but not required) to submit a brief preapplication
for programmatic review. There is no deadline for the preapplication. The
deadline for receipt of formal applications is 8:00 p.m. May 5, 2005.
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the Office
of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces interest
in receiving applications for the Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
Research Program. The program funds research that contributes to integrated
assessment of climate change, and in particular, research to develop and
improve methods and tools that focus on specialized topics of importance
to integrated assessments. The research program supports the Administration's
Climate Change Science Program goals to understand, model, and assess the
effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
The program places special emphasis on developing methods to evaluate economic
and other costs and benefits of climate change under "what if" scenarios
that include policy interventions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Request for preproposals: DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
Facilities http://www.arm.gov/acrf
U.S. DOE welcomes proposals for FY2007 campaigns requesing use of any
ARM Climate Research Facility, ie Southern Great Plains, North Slope
of Alaska,
Tropical Western Pacific, ARM Mobile Facility (AMF), and Unmanned Aerospace
Vehicle (UAV).
The due date for preproposals is April 29, 2005.
Position Announcements
3. Position DIRECTOR, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
Application Deadline May 10, 2005
http://www.wmo.int/web/hrm/
The incumbent is responsible for the international coordination, planning
and organization (where appropriate) of scientific research projects and
related activities contributing to the goals of the World Climate Research
Programme (WCRP). In order to fulfil this task, the incumbent will represent
the interests of the Programme with relevant governmental and non-governmental
international
organizations and a wide range of national administrations and research
agencies. He/she will also need to establish effective working relationships
with a
wide international community of scientists in all fields of geosciences,
including meteorology and atmospheric sciences, oceanography, polar sciences,
hydrology and land surface processes, as well as space research.
4. Postdoctoral Position in Regional Climate Modeling at Rutgers University
The Center for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Environmental
Sciences, Rutgers University, are seeking to hire a postdoctoral research
associate. The candidate will join a team of climate and hydrologic modelers
(Alan Robock, Ying Fan Reinfelder, Christopher Weaver) in an NSF-funded
research project to study coupled climatic and hydrologic changes at
the seasonal
to interannual scales over the North American continent, and the role
humans play in this complex system. The candidate will be responsible
for expanding
and improving our recently-developed fully coupled regional climate-hydrology
model (RAMS-Hydrology), including adding cold-season processes. The ideal
candidate must have experience in mesoscale modeling with RAMS or a similar
model, such as MM5 or WRF, and interest in GCM modeling will be a plus.
The position is for one year, renewable for another year with satisfactory
progress. The candidate must have a recent Ph.D. in meteorology, hydrology,
or a related science, be able to write and speak well in English, and
be familiar with UNIX, FORTRAN, GrADS, HTML, and other software tools.
The candidates
will be expected to conduct collaborative research, and to contribute
fully to the direction of the research program here.
The position will be in the Center for Environmental Prediction in the
Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
The candidate will join a growing group in atmospheric and hydrologic
sciences, with links to the nearby NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
and NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The candidate will be appointed
at Rutgers, which offers an excellent benefit package to its employees.
Salary will be
commensurate with experience and position. Consideration of applications
will begin April 1, 2005, and candidates will be considered until the
position is filled.
To apply, please send electronically (as pdf, Word, or postscript files)
a resume, statement of research interests, abstract of your Ph.D. dissertation,
and the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three
references to:
Prof. Alan Robock
Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551
USA
Tel: (732) 932-9478
Fax: (732) 932-8644
E-mail: robock@envsci.rutgers.edu
Announcement: THE WOCE ATLAS SERIES - VOLUME 1 Southern Ocean
The first volume of the WOCE Atlas Series (The Southern Ocean) has
now been printed and is available for distribution. This is the first
of four atlas volumes covering the Southern, Pacific, Atlantic and Indian
Oceans being produced. The Pacific atlas is now
nearing completion.
Each volume contains:
- vertical sections of up to fifteen parameters along the WOCE one-time
Hydrographic survey lines - horizontal property maps on depth and
density surfaces - property-property
plots
- electronic version of the atlas on DVD with additional material
Thanks to support from BP the atlases are free, but we still have
to cover postage costs. Each volume weighs approximately 5 kg and
we will
need to
charge £30 Sterling per volume to cover distribution costs
(from the printers in Switzerland).
We wish to make the first mailing at the end of April and for this
we need to receive orders and payment by 20th April 2005.
Please email Mrs Jean Haynes (jchy@soc.soton.ac.uk) or fax +44 (0)23
8059 6204 with your order and payment. We encourage bulk orders and
ask for the
number of copies required and the distribution addresses. Please
note that there are only a limited number (800/volume) of the atlases
available.
Announcement: Nomination of AMS Awards
Currently the AMS has over 25 awards, with most of them available
on a yearly basis. AMS encourages the nomination of peers who
might be
worthy of achieving
the status as a recipient of our prestigious awards. There are
a number of individuals who have given to the sciences and remain unrecognized
by many.
A simple nomination letter, along with up to three supporting
letters
is all it takes to initiate the process. Your efforts could help
this
individual
become more widely honored and recognized.
To recommend individuals as a Fellow of the AMS, the nominee
must be a Member of the Society and shall have made outstanding
contributions
to the atmospheric
or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications
during a substantial period of years.
The process to nominate a person as Fellow requires completing
a nomination form, and submitting up to three supporting letters.
For further information on our awards, awards descriptions, previous
recipients and form, and/or Fellows, previously elected and form,
visit the AMS web
site http://www.ametsoc.org/EXEC/nomination.html
The deadline is 1 May.
Announcement: CLIVAR “Exchanges” Issue 32 available
for download
The newest issue of the CLIVAR newsletter "Exchanges" is now
on the CLIVAR website at http://www.clivar.org/publications/index.htm.
Articles
include:
* CLIVAR - The Regional/Global Dichotomy
* The CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office at the UCSD
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
* Preliminary study of the East African short rains predictability
at the monthly and grid-point scales (1968-1998)
* Multi-Model Ensembling: Refining and Combining
* The Predictability Barrier and Teleconnection Pattern Variability
* From multi-model ensemble predictions to well-calibrated
probability forecasts: Seasonal rainfall forecasts over South
America 1959-2001
* Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice
* Seasonal climate prediction over South America using the
CPTEC/COLA AGCM
* Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts for the Southeast of South
America. Evaluating the First Five Years
* Are Intra-seasonal Oscillations "Speed-breakers" to
Seasonal Predictions?
* Mechanisms associated with the June-September 2003 Sahel
Rainfall and Implications for Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Meeting and Workshop Announcements
5. CLIVAR/GOOS/OOPC/Argo SOUTH PACIFIC WORKSHOP
10-13 October 2005, University of Concepción, Chile.
Both poster and oral contributions are invited. Please send expression of
interest to icpo@soc.soton.ac.uk by 9th MAY 2005 along with a proposed title
of oral/poster presentation if you would like to make a contribution.
Confirmation of Registration/Abstract submission deadline: 31st July 2005
Format
The workshop will be held over 4 days. The workshop will be structured around
a number of review and discussion papers prepared by groups of authors. Contributed
papers will be accepted as an oral or poster presentation as time allows.
Discussion periods will be used to identify key scientific issues, crosscutting
themes, observational needs, and limitations of the present ocean observing
system. Based on the discussion, working groups will be formed which will
be charged to formulate recommendations for future work in the South Pacific,
and to meet the objectives and provide the outcomes listed below. Central
to the discussion will be an assessment of the adequacy of the sustained
observing system in the South Pacific, mechanisms for implementing the system,
and identification of the need for regional enhancements.
The science issues will be discussed within a framework that considers the
adequacy of the past, present and future climate observing systems.
The greatest recent change has been the spread of the Argo profiling float
array to the South Pacific. The workshop will make an initial scientific
assessment of Argo's impact. It is also planned to provide opportunities
for workshop participants to learn about how to access Argo data, the quality
of Argo data and its present and potential new uses.
Objectives
· To review our present understanding of the role of the South Pacific
in seasonal to decadal variability of the climate system.
· To assess the adequacy of present day climate models to capture the
essential physics and observational networks to monitor climate Variability
and change.
· To assess the influence of the South Pacific South American and Australasian
climate.
· To support and help coordinate existing and beginning climate Observing
efforts, and to build associated partnerships.
· To identify deployment opportunities for the observing network.
· To identify where the existing observing network spanning the South
Pacific needs to be supplemented.
· To look for coordination of CLIVAR activities with other programmes
in the South Pacific, such as Carbon, SOLAS and IMBER.
Further information can be found at: http://www.clivar.org/organization/pacific/implementation/south_pac.html
6. Deadline for online submission of abstracts for the IAPSO/IAG Conference
in Cairns
22-26 August 2005 (http://www.dynamicplanet2005.com/).
Session P4 is entitled "Argo and GODAE - global and regional partners" (Conveners:
Neville Smith and John Gould).
Argo (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu) now provides over 5000 temperature and
salinity profiles per month in real-time from the ice-free deep oceans.
These data
are being exploited by researchers and by many operational analysis and
forecast groups.
Researchers in GODAE (http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/ocean/GODAE/ ) are using
state-of-the art ocean models and assimilation methods to produce short-range
open-ocean forecasts of value in their own right and as boundary conditions
to extend predictability to coastal regions. Data assimilation is also
producing global ocean analyses that aid our understanding of the oceans
and their
variability. Many of these productsrely increasingly on Argo data.
We invite you to submit an abstract based on your research using Argo data
and/or ocean data assimilation. We encourage both regional and global results.
Some will be selected to be oral presentations, others will be presented
as posters.
Our hope is that this Argo/GODAE session will be both a showcase for Argo/GODAE
research and a session that will stimulate an active dialogue between scientists
already active in Argo/GODAE.
Financial support
There will be limited funding available for presenters from developing
countries to assist with participation. The application form can be downloaded
from
the conference web site. All forms must be returned no later than 23 April
2005. No application will be considered unless the applicant has already
submitted a delegate registration form and their abstract. Applicants will
be informed of the status of their application no later than 20 May 2005.
7. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2006
The Ocean Sciences Meeting returns to Honolulu, Hawaii, 20 - 24 February
2006. The meeting is jointly organized by the American Geophysical Union
(AGU), The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The
Oceanography Society (TOS).
The Program Committee requests your help in putting together a dynamic
program and are currently soliciting proposals for special sessions.
Suggested topical themes for the conference include:
* Biodiversity and biocomplexity
* Ocean science education of the future
* Observing systems and technology
* Natural hazards in the coastal marine environment * Oceans and human
health
* Mesopelagic and Deep Sea
* Oceans role in climate
* Ocean physics
Additional meeting themes will develop based on special session submissions.
Please submit special session proposals via the conference web site at
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/
Deadline for submission is May 16, 2005.
May
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i – Calendar of Upcoming Events
Meeting and Workshop Announcements
1. U.S. Climate Change Science Program Workshop: Climate Science in Support
of Decisionmaking
2. Deadline for abstract to IAPSO/IAG/IABO Dynamice Planet 2005 Conference
3. Ocean Science Session Proposals Announcement: New Data Sets Available
Announcement: IAI-DIS Portal Available
Press Release: World Meteorological Organization Region IV Adopts Consensus
El Nino
and La Nina Index and Definitions
CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS (for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html)
May 2005:
11-13: EPIC 2001 Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model Workshop (Seattle, WA)
17-19: Drought Prediction Workshop (College Park, MD) June 2005:
13-17: AMS Joint Conference on Atmospheric and Ocean Fluid Dynamics, Middle
Atmospheres and Climate Variability and Change (Boston, MA)
21-23: 10th Annual CCSM Meeting (Breckinridge, CO)
20-24: International GEWEX ConferenceMeeting and Workshop Announcements
Meeting and Workshop Announcements 1. U.S. Climate Change Science Program Workshop: Climate Science in Support
of Decisionmaking
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is holding a workshop on
November 14-16, 2005, in the Washington, DC, area-addressing the capability
of climate
science to inform decisionmaking. The workshop will serve as a forum to
address the Program's progress and future plans regarding its three decision
support
goals:
1) Prepare scientific syntheses and assessments on key climate science
issues.
2) Develop and illustrate adaptive management and planning capabilities.
3) Develop and evaluate methods to support climate change policymaking.
The workshop will include discussion of decisionmaker needs for scientific
information on climate variability and change, as well as expected outcomes
of CCSP's research and assessment activities that are necessary for sound
resource management, adaptive planning, and policy formulation.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
o Members of the research community interested in exchanging ideas on climate
research, observations, and information tools that would be most useful
for climate-related planning and decisionmaking.
o Decisionmakers, including resource managers and policy developers, interested
in exchanging ideas with the climate science community on the types of
information most useful for their decisionmaking needs.
o Representatives of international organizations and countries interested
in sharing experiences or learning from U.S. activities related to the
application of climate information.
o Individuals who wish to provide input to the evolution of the Program's
activities over time.
BACKGROUND
The Climate Change Science Program-sponsored by 13 participating departments
and agencies of the U.S. Government- coordinates and integrates scientific
research on changes in climate and related systems. The CCSP Strategic
Plan emphasizes the application of knowledge from CCSP to develop, improve,
and
disseminate products for use in decisionmaking related to climate variability
and change. Many CCSP programs and activities address these needs-for example,
the use of observations and seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasts in
the management of natural resources, or application of scientific knowledge
in integrated assessments of global change. The CCSP Strategic Plan calls
for the development of 21 Synthesis and Assessment (S&A) products that
provide current evaluations of climate science issues, complementing other
international assessments such as those of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC). To maximize the effectiveness of all CCSP products,
it is vital that these products account for the science information needs
of their users. The workshop will be an opportunity for scientists and user
communities to discuss future application and development of climate science,
recognizing the multiple ways in which climate information will be utilized
to address societal and scientific challenges. A description and status of
the CCSP S&A products can be found at <www.climatescience.gov>
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
The workshop will include both plenary and breakout sessions. The plenary
sessions will include presentations by leading figures from the international
scientific community and the government, NGO, and private sectors. The
breakout sessions will foster interactions among those involved in producing
CCSP
decision support resources, and representatives of the scientific, resource
management, policy development, and other stakeholder communities. The
sessions will address topics of significant general interest (e.g., water
resources)
and will be designed to focus on the following issues:
- Information needs of decisionmakers and other stakeholders
- Advances in climate change science, observations, and related data management
systems
- Applications and uses of the scientific information, including the relationship
of scientific uncertainties to decision support
- Suggested priorities for future research in view of information needs
and science potential, and the prospects for reducing uncertainties.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS
Abstracts for contributed presentations at the workshop that focus on development
of scientific resources for decisionmaking are encouraged. Instructions
on how to submit abstracts will be posted by 1 June 2005 at
<
www.climatescience.gov/workshop2005/contribpres.htm>.
SPONSORING AGENCIES / DEPARTMENTS
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Interior
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
U.S. Agency for International Development
REGISTRATION AND LOGISTICAL INFORMATION
Participation will be limited to the first 800 registrants. Webcast of
the proceedings may be arranged if demand exceeds this limit. Early registration
is strongly encouraged. The registration cost per person is:
By 9/30 After 9/30
General Registration $150 $200
NGOs, Self-Employed, Retired $75 $100
Student (with valid student ID) $0 $25
Links to an on-line registration system (as well as hardcopy form) and
hotel and other logistical information are available at <www.climatescience.gov/workshop2005>.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND PRESENTATION QUESTIONS?
James R. Mahoney, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Director, Climate
Change Science Program <workshop@climatescience.gov>
2. Deadline for abstract to IAPSO/IAG/IABO Dynamice Planet
2005 Conference
The deadline for submitting abstracts of papers to the IAPSO/IAG/IABO
Dynamic Planet 2005 Conference in Cairns is getting close. DEADLINES
April 29 Hard
copy submissions;
May 6 Electronic submission to: http://www.dynamicplanet2005.com/
Neville Smith and John Gould are convening a joint Argo/GODAE session which
will highlight the science being carried out with the Argo array and through
GODAE
on the assimilation of these and other data. This will be a great opportunity
to show and to discuss the progress of these two projects.
Argo has passed another milestone - over 1800 floats (60% of the target array)
are in place.
3. Ocean Science Session Proposals
The 13th Ocean Sciences Meeting, a joint meeting of ASLO, TOS and AGU,
will be held 20-24 February 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Program Committee
is
developing a scientific program that will cover all topics in the area
of Ocean Sciences.
Proposals for sessions at the Meeting are welcomed on all topics related
to Ocean Sciences.
Session proposals must be based on scientific criteria and/or outcomes.
Suggested topical themes for the conference include, but are not limited
to:
* Biodiversity and biocomplexity,
* Ocean science education of the future,
* Observing systems and technology,
* Natural hazards in the coastal marine environment,
* Oceans and human health,
* Mesopelagic and Deep Sea,
* Oceans role in climate,
* Ocean physics.
Further details on how to submit session proposals can be found on the
AGU web page referenced below. Sessions Submission Deadline: 16 May 2005.
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/?content=program#SessionProposals
Announcement: New Data Sets Available
TERRA and AQUA data sets
The Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research
Center in collaboration with the CERES Science Team announces the release
of the
following Terra and Aqua data sets:
Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Cloud Parameters (SSF):
One hour of instantaneous CERES data for a single scanner instrument.
* CER_SSF_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition1B
* CER_SSF_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition1B
Monthly Gridded TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds (SFC): Hourly single satellite
flux and cloud parameters averaged over 1.0-degree regions.
* CER_SFC_Aqua-FM3-MODIS_Edition1B
* CER_SFC_Aqua-FM4-MODIS_Edition1B
* CER_SFC_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2C
* CER_SFC_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2C
Information about the CERES products, including products available, documentation,
relevant links, sample software, tools for working with the data, etc.,
can be found on the CERES data table at the ASDC web site: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/ceres/table_ceres.html
Model Derived Global Aerosol Climatology
The Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center
in collaboration with the MISR Science Team announces the public release
of a new
Model-Derived Global Aerosol Climatology for MISR Analysis Data Set
("Clim-Likely"). The "Clim-Likely" data set was derived
from 'typical-year' aerosol transport model results, and was developed
as an initial step in identifying
a range of components and mixtures for the MISR Standard Aerosol Retrieval
Algorithm climatology, and as one standard against which to compare MISR
aerosol air mass
type retrieval results. Six component aerosols included in the model
were medium and coarse mode mineral dust, sulfate, sea salt, black carbon,
and carbonaceous
aerosols.
Values reported
are percent of total column mid-visible aerosol optical depth (AOT)
for each component, total column mid-visible AOT, and the Mixing Group. Five
aerosol air mass "Mixing Groups," and thirteen sub-groups,
were identified from a cluster analysis of the entire database. Each
Mixing Group
contains the four most abundant component particles in the column for
climatologically common aerosol air masses, and each sub-group identifies
the dominant particles
within the Mixing Group.
The MISR "Clim-Likely" data
are available as individual monthly boxes or as global monthly files and
are available from a dedicated ASDC
web page:http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/misr_tools/clim_likely.cgi and are also accessible under "Special Products" on the ASDC
MISR Data table: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/misr/table_misr.html
An interactive tool allows access
to monthly individual 1=B0 x 1=B0 boxes,= and an interface option allows
download of global monthly files
or the
entire database
in ASCII format. If you are a new user to our Langley Web Ordering
Tool, a short registration form will need to be completed. This
information is necessary
for
statistical purposes.
Announcement: IAI-DIS Portal Running
The new
IAI-DIS (Data and Information System) Portal is running at "http://disbr1.iai.int".
There currently exist 110 metadata - most of them referencing data
produced within the IAI scientific projects.
This site is to be used by investigators for the creation of
metadata and for others who want to search for publications,
posters, presentations
and any
other data produced. If interested, please access the above site
or contact "iaidis@dir.iai.int" for
further assistance or information.
Press Release: World Meteorological Organization Region IV Adopts
Consensus El Nino
and La Nina Index and Definitions
Press Release Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thursday April 28, 11:00 pm ET
WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- NOAA, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, announced today that the 26 nations
of
the World Meteorological
Organization's Regional Association IV have adopted a Consensus
Index and Definitions of El Nino and La Nina conditions. By doing
so, scientists
and governments
throughout the region can better define potential impacts from
these short
term climate
shifts and prepare for remedial action.
The Consensus was agreed upon earlier this year by NOAA's National
Weather Service, as the U.S. representative, and its meteorological
service counterparts
in Canada
and Mexico. In adopting the North American Consensus, the RA
IV Member nations, located in North and Central America and
the Caribbean, agreed that the index and definitions could be revised in
the future based on further scientific
research,
and Member nations
were urged to define local thresholds for impacts based on
the index. The Consensus will now be known as the WMO RA IV Consensus
Index and
Definitions
of El Nino
and La Nina. The next step is to seek aworldwide consensus
on this approach through the WMO.
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i – Calendar of Upcoming Events
Announcement: Open Commenting on U.S. CLIVAR Reorganization
Research Opportunities
1. NSF ADVANCE Program Call for Nominations and Position Announcements
2. Nominations for NOAA Science Advisory Board Meeting and Workshop Announcements
3. 4th ESMF Annual Community Meeting
4. AMS Session on Land/Atmosphere Interaction
5. AMS GEOSS Joint Session
6. 2005 SORCE Science Meeting
7. Symposium on Asian Winter Monsoon Announcement: AIRS Quarterly Newsletter Available
CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS
(for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html)
June 2005:
13-17: AMS Joint Conference on Atmospheric and Ocean Fluid Dynamics, Middle
Atmospheres and Climate Variability and Change (Boston, MA)
15-17: Pan WCRP Monsoon Modeling Workshop (Irvine, CA)
21-23: 10th Annual CCSM Meeting (Breckinridge, CO)
20-24: International GEWEX Conference (Orange County, CA)
27-30: CLIVAR Southern Ocean Workshop on Modes of Variability (Cambridge,
UK) July 2005:
ESMF Meeting (MIT - Boston, MA) August 2005:
1-4: “The Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities” An
Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Workshop (Woods Hole, MA)
2-11: IAMAS Biennial Scientific Assembly (Beijing, China)
10-12: PAGES 2nd Open Science Meeting (Beijing, China)
14-18: U.S. CLIVAR Summit (Keystone, CO)
Announcement: Open Commenting
on U.S. CLIVAR Reorganization
The U.S. CLIVAR is soliciting comments regarding the reorganization of
its program. Details on the new structure of U.S. CLIVAR including new
panels
and terms of reference can be found on the U.S. CLIVAR web-site at: www.usclivar.org/Reorganization/reorganization.html.
Instructions on commenting are also available at this site.
Research Opportunities
1. NSF ADVANCE Program
NSF Funding Opportunity
ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic
Science and Engineering Careers
The goal of the ADVANCE program is to increase the representation and
advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, thereby
contributing
to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce.
Creative strategies to realize this goal are sought from men and women.
Members of
underrepresented minority groups and individuals with disabilities are
especially encouraged to apply. Proposals that address the participation
and advancement
of women from underrepresented minority groups are encouraged. Further
info: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05584
Call for Nominations
2. Call for Nominations for NOAA Science Advisory Board
NOAA is soliciting nominations for members of the NOAA Science Advisory
Board (SAB). The SAB is the only Federal Advisory Committee with the
responsibility to advise the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans
and Atmosphere and
NOAA
Administrator on long- and short-range strategies for research, education,
and application of science to resource management and environmental
assessment and prediction.
SAB activities and advice provide necessary input to ensure that NOAA
science programs are of the highest quality and provide optimal support
to NOAA's
Mission
Goals:
o Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean
o Resources Through an Ecosystem Approach to Management
o Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance
o Society's Ability to Plan and Respond
o Serve Society's Needs for Weather and Water Information
o Support the Nation's Commerce with Information for Safe,
o Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation
o Provide Critical Support for NOAA's Mission
The SAB consists of 15 members reflecting the full breadth of NOAA's
areas of responsibility and assists NOAA in maintaining a complete
and accurate
understanding of scientific issues critical to the agency's missions.
As a Federal Advisory Committee the SAB's membership is required to
be balanced
in terms of viewpoints represented and the functions to be performed
as well as including the interests of geographic regions of the country
and
the diverse
sectors of our society (business and industry, science, academia, and
the public at large).
Nominations must be received electronically by [30 days from publication
of this notice]. Nominations should provide: (1) the nominee's full
name, title, institutional affiliation, and contact information; (2)
the nominee's
area(s) of expertise; and (3) a short description of their qualifications
relative to the kinds of advice being solicited. Inclusion of a resume
is desirable. Nominations should be submitted electronically to noaa.sab.2005@noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Michael Uhart at michael.uhart@noaa.gov
or (301) 713-9121, ext. 159.
Meetings and Workshop Announcements
3. 4th ESMF Annual Community Meeting
July 20-22, 2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
The 4th Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Community Meeting will
be held on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge,
MA from July 20-22, 2005. The main meeting will be on July 21, and
will focus
on experiences using ESMF in climate, weather, and data assimilation
applications,
with special attention to issues of performance and ease of use.
Other topics will include:
o status of the framework and application adoption efforts,
o overview of ESMF-based projects and initiatives,
o development priorities and future directions
On July 20 there will be a workshop on ESMF and GRID computing. On
July 22, a hands-on tutorial session will be held in the morning
and a vendor
meeting
in the afternoon. A reception will be held the evening of July 21.
For more information and registration, see: http://www.esmf.ucar.edu/main_site/news/050720_meeting.html
There is no registration fee. For more information, contact Cecelia DeLuca
at ext. 1826, cdeluca@ucar.edu,
or see this Web page: http://www.esmf.ucar.edu
4. AMS Session on Land/Atmosphere Interaction
AMS Session on Land/Atmosphere Interaction to be held jointly as
part of the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and
the 21st
Conference
on
Hydrology at the 2006 AMS Annual Meeting, 29 January - 2 February 2006,
Atlanta, Georgia.
The land's role in the climate system - its impact on atmospheric
means and variability across a broad range of timescales, ranging
from hours
to centuries
- has been
the subject of much recent exploratory research. Despite these recent
gains in our understanding, however, and despite the importance
placed on this
interaction by the GEWEX and CLIVAR research programs, many of the
meteorological, biophysical,
and biogeochemical processes that underlie climate-soil-vegetation
dynamics are
not yet fully understood. This session focuses on (1) dynamic, physical,
and biogeochemical mechanisms by which the land surface influences
atmospheric processes and climate; (2) predictability associated
with land-surface/atmosphere
interaction;
(3) impacts of land processes on monsoon development; (4) impact of
land-cover and land use change on climate; (5) development of coupled
atmosphere/land-surface
models. We welcome papers addressing any of these topics.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the 18th Conference
on Climate Variability and Change Web by August 1, 2005 (refer to the
AMS
Web page
for instructions). Please also send a copy to session organizers Yongkang
Xue
(yxue@geog.ucla.edu) or Randy Koster (randal.koster@gsfc.nasa.gov).
5. AMS GEOSS Joint Session
GEOSS Joint Session Description Summary: The 22nd Conference on Interactive
Information Processing Systems (22-IIPS) will feature a joint session
with the 10th IOAS-AOLS
Symposium. This session will focus on the Global Earth Observation
System of Systems (GEOSS). We are soliciting papers on the development
of various
global
environmental observing systems including, but not limited to, the
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System
(GOOS),
and Global Terrestrial
Observing System (GTOS). A special emphasis this year would be on
progress towards development of an enhanced tsunami observation and warning
system that is an
outgrowth of the tragic events of 26 December 2004. The all day GEOSS
joint session will be held on Thursday 2-February-2006. More information
on the
GEOSS can be
found at http://earthobservations.org;
information on the US portion of GEOSS, the Integrated Earth Observation
System, can be found at http://iwgeo.ssc.nasa.gov.
If you are interested in submitting
an abstract for this joint GEOSS session, please submit your abstract electronically
via the Web by
1 August 2005
(refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/ for
instructions). Papers intended for the joint sessions identified
above should be submitted to the joint session as identified in the specific
scientific conference
(e.g., IIPS). Those papers will then be reviewed by the technical
chairs of the specific conference. An abstract fee of $60 (payable by credit
card or purchase
order) is charged by the AMS at the time of submission (refundable
only if abstract is not accepted). Details on AMS-86 can be found at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by
mid-September 2005. A preprint CD-ROM will be prepared, and authors
of invited and
accepted papers will be asked to contribute to this volume. All
extended abstracts
are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line
via the Web. Instructions
for formatting extended manuscripts for the preprint CD-ROM will
be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be
submitted electronically
by
1 November 2005 to AMS Headquarters. A manuscript charge will be
collected
to defray to cost of the preprint CD-ROM, as well as Web posting
of the manuscript and recorded meeting presentation. Registrants
will
receive
a preprint CD-ROM
at the conference. Please note that the deadline for submitting
abstracts for consideration for AMS-86 is 01-August-2005, and that is a rather
firm date. Again,
please submit
your abstracts through the AMS web page and NOT to me. Finally,
please feel free to forward this information to anyone who you think may
be interested in this
session -- either to present a paper or just to attend.
6. 2005 SORCE Science Meeting
Abstract Deadline 8/12/05
" Paleo Connections Between the Sun, Climate, and Culture"
Sept. 14-16, 2005 - Durango, Colorado
Announcing the 2005 SORCE Meeting, motivated by the NASA/EOS Solar Radiation
and Climate Experiment (SORCE). Everyone is invited to attend
the 3rd Annual SORCE Science Meeting as we vastly extend the time domain to
paleoclimate
and the very long-term changes in the solar output. This meeting
will concentrate on both the empirical evidence and physical processes that
link
the sun,
climate,
and culture in the distant past. The agenda will consist of both
invited
and contributed oral presentations and posters. Abstracts are due
August 12. Topics
will include:
o Evidence for long-term solar activity and reconstructions
of past solar irradiance
o Evidence for climate responses to solar variability, and
cultural impacts
o Interpreting the solar and climate sources of cosmogenic isotope
variations, and their relationship to solar irradiance
o Physical processes linking climate, cultural responses, and
solar variability
Please see the website for further information -- http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/2005ScienceMeeting/.
7. Symposium on Asian Winter Monsoon
Winter MONEX: A Quarter Century and Beyond. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
Spring 2006,
During 1978-1979, the Winter Monsoon Experiment that took place over
Southeast Asia and the South China Sea was one of the largest
international efforts
and most important field phases of the Global Weather Experiment.
The Malaysian Meteorological Department, in cooperation with
the WMO-PSA
International
Panel
for East Asian
Monsoon, plans to host an international symposium to commemorate
this historical event. It will highlight the international
cooperation on
the study of
the Asian winter monsoon since the Winter MONEX field experiment
more than a
quarter century
ago; review the accomplishments and progresses of research,
observation, and forecasting since then; and discuss future scientific
efforts
and cooperation on weather and climate research and forecast
over the broad
Asian winter
monsoon
region and its vicinity.
The Symposium is tentatively planned for the March-April frame
of 2006. Further details will be announced when available.
Contact: Prof. C.-P.
Chang, Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (cpchang@nps.edu).
Announcement: AIRS Quarterly Newsletter Available
The first issue of the AIRS Quarterly Newsletter from the AIRS
Project Office is now available for download. The Spring 2005
issue opens
with the great
news that AIRS data has been shown to improve forecast accuracy,
and stories about
some of the kinds of research being conducted with AIRS data
can also be found.
In this issue, Duane Waliser and Baijun Tian's work on
understanding the Madden-Julian Oscillation is profiled,
and if you've
ever wondered how
AIRS data gets from
the spacecraft to the Numerical Weather Prediction supercomputers
in under 3 hours, you'll want to read about the creation
of the "bent pipe".
The current issue also highlights how Thomas Hearty and
Inseok Song are using AIRS
data to aid in the discovery of extra-solar Earth-like
planets. The AIRS Quarterly also contains news tidbits as
well as a list of recent publications. To download the
5mb PDF file,
please
go to the
AIRS Public
Web Site at airs.jpl.nasa.gov
and click on the link on the left hand side of the page.
July
2005
U.S. CLIVAR News-gram
Table of Contents
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i – Calendar of Upcoming Events
Announcement: U.S. CLIVAR Newsletter Variations published (Spring 2005)
Research Opportunities and Call for Papers
1. Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research
2. National Science Foundation Research for Undergraduates program
3. START-PACOM Doctoral Fellowship Awards
4. Call for U.S. CLIVAR Variations Articles Meeting and Workshop Announcements
5. Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop Additional Announcements:
o Special Issue of Advances in Marine Climatology
o ARGO Subscription Service
o New CERES product announced
CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS
(for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html)
July 2005:
ESMF Meeting (MIT - Boston, MA) August 2005:
1-4: “The Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities” An
Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Workshop (Woods Hole, MA)
2-11: IAMAS Biennial Scientific Assembly (Beijing, China)
10-12: PAGES 2nd Open Science Meeting (Beijing, China)
14-18: U.S. CLIVAR Summit (Keystone, CO)
22-26: Dynamic Planet Conference (Cairns, Australia)
Announcement: U.S.
CLIVAR Newsletter “Variations”
The latest edition of the U.S. CLIVAR Newsletter Variations was published
June 2005. Contents include:
o The Evolution of the Weak El Niño of 2004-2005 by Bradfield
Lyon and Tony Barnston (IRI)
o El Niño Impacts on the California Current Ecosystem by Franklin
Schwing, Daniel Palacios, and Steven Bograd (NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science
Center)
o CLIMODE: a mode water dynamics experiment in support of CLIVAR by John
Marshall (MIT) for the CLIMODE group
o U.S. CLIVAR Reorganization
This issue is available online (http://www.usclivar.org/Newsletter/VariationsV3N2.html)
and also in PDF form (http://www.usclivar.org/Newsletter/Variations_V3N2.pdf)
Newsletters were mailed out to the CLIVAR community in mid-June. If you
have not received a newsletter and would like to, please contact Cathy
Stephens
in the U.S. CLIVAR Project Office (cstephens@usclivar.org). A call for
papers for the next edition is listed below.
Research Opportunities 1. Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research
The deadline for (optional) pre-proposals is Wednesday 13 July 2005
The deadline for full proposals is Wednesday, 21 September 2005
APN funding is used to support regional global change research and training
activities, which are selected through a competitive Annual Regional Call
for Proposals (ARCP). This call is usually launched in April, however,
due to the APN's Second Strategic Phase (2005-2010) the guidelines will
be revised
to reflect the new "Science" and other agendas. Please continue
checking this site as the ARCP will be launched in June. The Secretariat
appreciates your interest in the APN and kindly requests your patience
for the revised uploaded guides and checklists. Information cannot be released
by email prior to the launch. Proposals must relate to APN research topics
and involve at least 3 countries, of which at least 2 must be developing
countries. http://www.apn-gcr.org/en/callforproposals.html
2. National Science Foundation Research for Undergraduates program
The National Science Foundation announces continuation of the Research
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05592
Deadline for REU Site proposals: September 7, 2005; August 17, 2006.
Deadline for REU Site proposals to the Antarctic Program: June 7, 2006;
June 6, 2007.
Deadline for REU Supplement requests: Varies with the research program.
Contact the cognizant program officer for the award or proposal that
would be supplemented.
The National Science Foundation announces continuation of the Research
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, a Foundation-wide program
that supports
active research participation by undergraduate students. NSF funds research
in most fields of science and engineering (see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/aboutfunding.jsp),
and REU proposals are welcome in any of these research areas, including
the "priority
areas" (http://www.nsf.gov/news/priority_areas/) and cross-disciplinary
areas (cyber-enabled science and engineering, science of learning, intersection
of mathematical and biological sciences, etc.) that NSF has identified
among its programs.
The REU program seeks to expand student participation in all kinds of
research--whether disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or educational in
focus--encompassing efforts
by individual investigators, groups, centers, national facilities, and
others. The REU program is a major contributor to the NSF goal of developing
a diverse,
internationally competitive, and globally-engaged science and engineering
workforce. It draws on the integration of research and education to attract
a diversified pool of talented students into careers in science and engineering,
including teaching and education research related to science and engineering,
and to help ensure that these students receive the best education possible.
Research experience is considered to be one of the most effective avenues
for attracting talented undergraduates to and retaining them in careers
in science and engineering, including careers in teaching and education
research.
The REU program, through both Sites and Supplements, aims to provide
appropriate and valuable educational experiences for undergraduate students
through participation
in research. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing
research programs or in research projects designed especially for the
purpose. REU projects feature high-quality interaction of students with
faculty and/or
other research mentors and access to appropriate facilities and professional
development opportunities.
NSF is particularly interested in increasing the numbers of women, underrepresented
minorities, and persons with disabilities in research. REU projects are
strongly encouraged to involve students who are members of these groups.
Underrepresented
minorities are Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and
Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders.
Please see the solicitation for complete information http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05592.
Dr. Jane Dionne (jdionne@nsf.gov or 703-292-8029) and Dr. Julie Palais
(jpalais@nsf.gov or 703-292-8033) are the Office of Polar Programs representatives
to the
REU program.
3. START-PACOM Doctoral Fellowship Awards
The International START Secretariat and the Pan African START Committee
(PACOM) wish to announce fellowship opportunities for outstanding
young African scientists
engaged in global environmental change research leading to doctoral
dissertation (see attached application form). These fellowships are supported
through
a grant from the Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD) to START
for regional capacity building for global environmental change research
in
Africa. Awards
will be for up to two years of study leading to completion of Ph.D.
dissertation or for the final year of graduate study combined with one-year
of post-doctoral
research. Candidates must have completed at least one year of study
toward a Ph.D. to be eligible for this award. Proposals should focus
on some
aspect of global environmental change in Africa. Awards will provide
for tuition,
research materials, and a small living allowance.
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program
leading to a Ph.D. degree in an African university and have completed
one year
of doctoral study program. Applicants must have completed their Master‚s
degree (or equivalent). Candidates must be 35 years of age at time
of application or younger. Applicants must be pursuing a doctoral
degree related to environmental
change in Africa. Application Deadline is August 15, 2005. For further
details see the International START website (www.start.org).
4. Call for U.S. CLIVAR Variations Articles
The U.S. CLIVAR Office publishes a newsletter three times annually.
The newsletter is mailed to over 700 members of the scientific
community in the US and overseas.
Each issue includes 2-3 brief science papers on issues relevant
to the
U.S. CLIVAR program as well as program updates and other information.
The next
edition will be issued in September 2005 and will focus on climatic
extremes such as droughts, floods, and hurricanes. We are seeking
3-4 brief papers
summarizing recent research that address issues such as the relationship
of extreme events to natural climate variability and change; the
predictability of such extremes; and/or observed and modeled trends
in extreme events
and their intercomparison. We invite authors to submit by 22 July
2005 a short
(3-4 sentences) proposal for a paper to be considered for inclusion.
Proposals should be sent to Cathy Stephens in the U.S. CLIVAR office
(cstephens@usclivar.org). Final drafts of papers must be submitted
by 31 August 2005. Each paper should be no more than 2000 words and can include
2-3 color
figures (in
PDF). The
text of the article should be submitted as a Word document or as
plain text.
Meetings and Workshop Announcements
5. Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop
MARCH 21-24, 2006
TUCSON, ARIZONA
The National Weather Service Climate Services Division, in conjunction
with the University of Arizona Climate Assessment for the Southwest
and Arizona
Cooperative Extension is hosting the Fourth Climate Prediction
Applications Science Workshop (CPASW) at the Westward Look Resort
in Tucson, Arizona,
on March 21-24, 2006. The workgroup will bring together a diverse
group of climate science producers and users to share and discuss
developments
in
research and applications related to the use and impacts of climate
predictions on societal decision-making and resource management.
The meeting goals
are to identify new climate prediction applications research,
promote interactions
between climate-sensitive integrated research and service communities,
and assess impacts of climate forecasts on environmental-societal
interactions. The workshop will not address technical challenges
of making climate
predictions,
climate modeling, or other technical topics related to the science
of climate predictions.
For more information, please contact Mike Crimmins at crimmins@u.arizona.edu
or by phone at (520) 626-4244, or contact Diana Perfect (diana.perfect@noaa.gov). Additional
meeting details are available at: http://cals.arizona.edu/climate/CPASW2006/index.htm
ARGO Subscription Service
Since the 15th of June a new facility is available at the Coriolis
GDAC. Coriolis contributes to the in situ part of the ocean
system, with the
objective of developing continuous, automatic, and permanent
observation networks.
The data collected will enable water properties to be mapped,
such as temperature, and ocean circulation.
This subscription facility allows you to subscribe for a
periodic delivery of data on a specific area, for a defined
period of
time. The data will
be extracted from Coriolis database and delivered to you
by FTP according to
the delivery schedule that you have chosen (weekly, monthly).
You will be warned of the availability of the data by email. To
subscribe: http://www.coriolis.eu.org/cdc/selectiveDiffusion/cdcSelectiveDiffusions.asp
New CERES product announced
The Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley
Research Center in collaboration with the CERES Science
Team announces
the release of the
following data sets: CER_SRBAVG_Terra-FM1-MODIS_Edition2C; CER_SRBAVG_Terra-FM2-MODIS_Edition2C
The Monthly TOA/Surface Averages (SRBAVG) data product
contains the next generation of monthly mean gridded global
Earth
Radiation Budget
(ERB)
data averaged globally. These data represent a major improvement
over previous
data sets such as the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
(ERBE) and the CERES ERBE-like products (ES-4 and ES-9)
in several
key aspects.
First,
the accuracy
of TOA flux is greatly improved by the use of new angular
distribution models (ADM) based on improved scene identification.
Second,
high temporal resolution
imager data from geostationary satellites are used to reduce
temporal sampling errors. Finally, the SRBAVG product is
the first ERB data
set to contain
detailed cloud properties that are consistent with the
fluxes.
Information about the CERES products, including products
available, documentation, relevant links, sample software,
tools for working
with the data, etc.,
can be found at the CERES data table: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/ceres/table_ceres.html
August 2005
U.S. CLIVAR News-gram
Table of Contents
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i – Calendar of Upcoming Events Research Opportunities and Call for Papers
1. START Call for Proposals
2. 2006 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Program
3. 8th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
4. DISCCRS II Symposium Opportunity
5. Call for articles in CLIVAR Exchanges Announcement: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Meeting and Workshop Announcements
6. Earth System Science Partnership Global Environmental Change Open Science
Conference
7. African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis - 1st International Conference
8. AGU 2005 Fall Meeting
9. Ocean Sciences 2006 Special Sessions
10. AMS 2006 Special Sessions
11. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2006)
========================================================== CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS (for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html)
August 2005:
1-4: “The Ocean Carbon System: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities” An
Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Workshop (Woods Hole, MA)
2-11: IAMAS Biennial Scientific Assembly (Beijing, China)
10-12: PAGES 2nd Open Science Meeting (Beijing, China)
14-18: U.S. CLIVAR Summit (Keystone, CO)
22-26: Dynamic Planet Conference (Cairns, Australia) October 2005:
11-14: CLIVAR/OOPC/ARGO South Pacific Observation System Workshop (Concepcion,
Chile)
17-20: CRCES Workshop on Decadal Variability (Warrenton, VA)
24-28: NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (State College, PA)Research
Opportunities and Call for Papers
1. START Call for Proposals
START, through funding from the United States Climate Change Science
Project (Global Change Research Program), is pleased to announce the
attached Call
for Proposals. Proposals are being solicited from scientists based
at African institutions for research projects related to:
1) Climate Change and Water Resources
2) Climate Variability and Climate Change in Africa
3) Impacts/Adaptations/Vulnerability to Global Change
4) Land Use and Ecosystem Change
5) Bio-geochemical Fluxes, and
6) Biodiversity.
Proposals must explicitly address priority issues identified in the
frameworks of START's sponsoring programs (IGBP, IHDP, and WCRP) or
of the Earth System
Science Partnership. In this round priority will be assigned to proposals
that focus on water issues and include aspects of food production systems,
biogeochemistry, health, and vulnerability and adaptation.
International collaboration is encouraged. Proposals will be accepted
until 09 September 2005 as per the attached instructions. This information
is also
available through the START website: www.start.org
2. 2006 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Program
Application Deadline: 15 January 2006 http://www.vsp.ucar.edu/cgc.html
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) announces
the continuation of the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral
Program.
UCAR manages this NOAA-sponsored program, which pairs recently
graduated postdoctorates with host scientists at U.S. institutions to
work in
an area of mutual interest. The objective of this program is to
help create the next
generation of researchers needed for climate studies. It endeavors
to attract recent PhD's in sciences that address studies of relevance
to the NOAA Climate
and Global Change Program refer to NOAA's Web site at: http://www.ogp.noaa.gov.
The NOAA Climate and Global Change Program seeks to provide an
effective national climate service based on the development and
application of
global and regional climate forecast information. The Program focuses
on observing,
understanding, modeling, and predicting the climate system on seasonal-to-centennial
time scales and assessing the regionally specific socioeconomic
consequences of climate variability. Specific research foci include:
* Understanding and predicting both changes in, and regional manifestations
of,
large-scale patterns of climate variability such as the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Pacific Decadal Variability
(PDV) Tropical Atlantic Variability (TAV), and the monsoon systems of North and
South America.
* Observing and modeling ocean, atmosphere, land and cryosphere in
order to characterize the coupled processes that give rise to climate
variability.
* Determining the impacts of radiatively important trace gases and
aerosols on global climate change, including the modeling of the biogeochemical
processes
that cycle these constituents throughout the earth system.
* Documenting and analyzing past climate change -- including abrupt
climate change -- in order to understand the full range of natural
variability
in the earth
system, thus resulting in more accurate climate predictions.
* Improving our understanding of how humans adapt to climate, which
includes the social and economic responses to both current climate
variability and
potential long-term changes in climate, as well as the potential use
of climate information
to improve human welfare.
* Analyzing and modeling hydrometeorological processes such as soil
moisture, rain, snow, vegetation, frozen ground and runoff generation.
See the NOAA PD web page for further details of how to apply.
3. 8th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology
and Oceanography
(8ICSHMO), 24-28 April 2006
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
The 8th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology
and Oceanography sponsored by the AMS and INPE of Brazil will be
held 24-28
April 2006 in Foz
do Iguaçu, Parana_ State, Brazil. Foz do Iguaçu is a tourist city
located in the area of the triple border between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
that includes the world-famous Iguaçu Falls. Preliminary programs, registration,
hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS)
and on the Local Organizing Committee web site (http://www.cptec.inpe.br/SH_Conference/submit.shtml)
in mid-July 2005.
Poster as well as oral presentations are solicited on all aspects
of the meteorology and oceanography of the Southern Hemisphere. The
meeting
is
organized around
the broad theme: "Understanding and Predicting Climate and Water Resources,
their Variability and Change in the Southern Hemisphere". Particular attention
will be given to: a) Monsoon systems and continental rainfall; Fundamental processes;
Climatological, ecological, biogeochemical, and hydrological functioning of the
Monsoon regions; b) Role of the SH oceans in climate. Climate - ecosystem - biogeochemistry
interactions in the oceans of the SH; c) Addressing gaps in SH observing systems;
d) Climate and weather forecasts: The challenge of seasonal, interannual, and
interdecadal prediction in the SH; e) Understanding long-term climate variations
in the SH; f) Hydrological (Hydrological variability and modeling; g) Climatic
and ecological impacts of land cover and land use changes; h) Climate and Cryosphere
of the Antarctic region; i) Climate change in the SH; j) Inter-ocean exchanges
in the SH; k) Human influences on climate; l) Atmospheric chemistry in the SH.
The Program Committee also encourages submissions on recent scientific accomplishments
and synthesis for the Southern Hemisphere for global programs like WCRP, CLIVAR,
GEWEX, IGBP, GCOS, GOOS, GEOSS, and IPCC.
Abstract submissions are due by October 1st, 2005 (refer to the Conference
Web page at http://www.cptec.inpe.br/SH_Conference for instructions.)
For further
information about the Conference, see the
For additional information please contact the Program co-chairpersons,
Carolina Vera, (+54-11-47872693; email: carolina@cima.fcen.uba.ar)
and Carlos Nobre (+55-12-
3186 9459, email: nobre@cptec.inpe.br).
4. DISCCRS II Symposium Opportunity
March 26 - April 2, 2006
Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, CA
DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate
Change Research).
Applications are invited from recent Ph.D. graduates doing climate-change/impacts
research for the Spring 2006 DISCCRS II Symposium (application
deadline of Oct. 2, 2005). DISCCRS (pronounced discourse) is an
interdisciplinary
opportunity
for recent Ph.D.graduates engaged in climate-change research.
http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf
DISCCRS Rationale: After years of specialization, today's graduates
increasingly find themselves on a multi-dimensional trajectory
that requires a breadth
of knowledge sufficient to make connections between distant disciplines,
and a global
network of colleagues from different backgrounds. It can take years
to gain the necessary collegial networks and experience to work
effectively. DISCCRS, an
initiative funded by NSF and NASA, seeks to jump-start the process.
Recent Ph.D. graduates from all disciplines and countries are invited
to join the DISCCRS program and apply to be a DISCCRS Symposium
Fellow.
Symposia: Annual symposia, funded for 2006, 2007 and 2008, will
bring together 36 new scholars from the physical/natural and social
sciences
to foster
understanding across disciplines and catalyze formation of an interdisciplinary,
international
collegial network. Participants will present their research in
plenary sessions. Established interdisciplinary professionals will
be on
hand to share their perspectives.
Consultants will teach participants to communicate across disciplines
and with a non-specialist audience. Representatives of Federal
agencies will
describe
programs and funding opportunities.
Eligibility: Graduates completing Ph.D. requirements between Oct.
1, 2002 - Sept. 30,2005 are eligible to apply for the DISCCRS II
Symposium,
to
be held March
26 - April 2, 2006 at the Asilomar Conference Center, CA.
Application deadline is October 2, 2005.
Support for symposium travel and on-site expenses will be provided
for selected applicants.
Electronic Resources: An electronic newsletter and web-based resources
make the DISCCRS program accessible to a global audience. A unique
feature is the on-line
Ph.D. Dissertation Registry, which introduces graduates to a world-wide
community and provides a concise overview of current work. The
webpage archives resources
developed for and by symposium participants.
Graduates from all disciplines and countries are encouraged to
register their Ph.D. dissertation abstract using the convenient
on-line form
at: http://aslo.org/forms/phdform.html.
Contact: Susan Weiler, weilercs@whitman.edu5. Call for CLIVAR Exchanges
Articles
The next issue of CLIVAR Exchanges will have a focus on The Southern
Ocean region and the International Polar Year. There will be a
summary of the
recent Modes
of Southern Hemisphere Climate variability workshop and SO panel
meeting as well as a selection of papers on this topic. We also
encourage you
and your colleagues
to consider submitting short articles (1-3 pages including figures).
The deadline for submission is Friday the 2nd of September.
Guidelines for submission can be found at:
http://www.clivar.org/publications/exchanges/guidel.htmAnnouncement:
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
Pre-release Versions of Chapters Available Online
For further information and to download the chapters, please go
to: http://www.acia.uaf.edu
Prior to publication of the scientific report, several individual
science chapters of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment are now
available
as pre-releases on
the ACIA website: http://www.acia.uaf.edu
The published chapters may differ slightly in presentation style
and pagination from the pre-released chapters, but not in technical
content.
The publication
date for the ACIA scientific report is estimated to be July 2005.
The following chapters are currently available online:
Chapter 1: Introduction to the ACIA
Chapter 2: Arctic Climate - Past and Present
Chapter 2 Commentary: Arctic Temperature Change
Chapter 3: Changing Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives
Chapter 4: Future Climate Change: Modeling and Scenarios
Chapter 5: Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation
Chapter 6: Cryosphere and Hydrology
Chapter 10: Principles of Conserving the Arctic's Biodiversity
Chapter 11: Management and Conservation of Wildlife in a Changing
Arctic Environment
Chapter 12: Hunting, Herding, Fishing and Gathering: Indigenous
Peoples and Renewable Resource Use in the Arctic
Chapter 15: Human Health
Chapter 16: Infrastructure: Buildings, Support Systems, and Industrial
Facilities
Meetings and Workshop Announcements
6. Global Environmental Change Regional Challenges
An Earth System Science Partnership Global Environmental Change Open
Science Conference
November 9-12, 2006 (Beijing) www.essp.org/essp/ESSP2006/
The first Global Change Open Science Conference, held in Amsterdam in 2001,
was a milestone in the scientific, political and public understanding of this
far-reaching
topic. One outcome of that Conference was the formation of the Earth System
Science Partnership (ESSP), a collaboration between
* DIVERSITAS - an international programme of biodiversity science
* IGBP - the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
* IHDP - the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental
Change
* WCRP - the World Climate Research Programme
ESSP is organizing an Open Science Conference in Beijing, 9-12 November 2006,
to present progress in our understanding of the natural and social systems
of global environmental change and to highlight the ESSP approach to the study
of
the Earth System.
Proposals for sessions may be submitted online October - November 2005 at
www.essp.org/essp/ESSP2006/
Abstracts for presentations and posters may be submitted online February -
May 2006.
First Circular [http://www.essp.org/essp/ESSP2006/pdf/ESSP2006_Circular1.pdf]
7. African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis - 1st International Conference
Dakar, 28 November - 4 December 2005
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) is an international
project to improve our knowledge and understanding of the West African
monsoon (WAM)
and its variability with an emphasis on daily-to-interannual timescales.
AMMA is motivated by an interest in fundamental scientific issues and
by the societal
need for improved prediction of the WAM and its impacts on West African nations.
This conference aims to bring together researchers from around the world
working on the WAM and its impacts, to review ongoing research activities
and to discuss
future contributions and directions within the AMMA research programme. It
also provides an ideal opportunity for establishing and coordinating collaborations,
in particular with African scientists in AMMANET. The conference takes place
within the enhanced observing period and just ahead of the AMMA special observing
period in 2006. Recognising the societal need to develop strategies that reduce
the socioeconomic impacts of the variability of the WAM, AMMA facilitates
the multidisciplinary
research required to provide improved predictions of the WMA and its impacts.
This is achieved and coordinated
through 5 international working groups: 1)West African monsoon and global
climate; 2) Water cycle; 3) Land-surface
atmosphere
feedbacks; 4)Prediction of climate impacts and 5)High impact weather prediction
and predictability. These 5 research areas also constitute the main themes
of the conference.
Abstracts (max 250 words) for
the conference should be e-mailed to Cheikh Kane (dakar2005@amm-int.org)
by 15 August 2005 indicating the research
theme in
which the abstract belongs. Please indicate preference for an oral or
poster presentation.
Extended abstracts will be sought after mid-September for an inclusion
in a conference publication. For further information, the conference
web site is: www.amma-international.org/conferences/dakar2005
8. AGU Fall Meeting
You are cordially invited to submit EPIC/VOCALS related abstracts to the
AGU Fall meeting session A16: Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes and Interactions
in the Eastern Pacific
The importance of ocean-atmosphere-land interactions in the tropical and
subtropical eastern Pacific region to climate in the Americas is well recognized.
Several
recent field experiments aim at a better description and understanding
of key interactive processes. EPIC2001 has examined the coupled ocean-atmosphere
system
in the eastern Pacific ITCZ, along the meridional cross-section at 95 deg
W longitude from the ITCZ to the equator, and in the marine stratocumulus
region
off Peru.
The follow-on VOCALS will focus on the stratocumulus cloud deck off South
America and its interaction with the ocean, which exerts a basin-wide influence
on
tropical Pacific climate. DYCOMS-II examined the dynamics and chemistry
of
marine stratocumulus
in the NE Pacific. Results from these process studies including oceanographic
and atmospheric measurements, related modeling, analysis, and progress
toward incorporating findings into climate models will be summarized in
this session,
along with contributions from other investigators working on eastern Pacific
Ocean-atmosphere-land interactions.
The AGU Fall meeting is scheduled for Dec 5-9 2005 in San Francisco. The
exact date of session A16 is to be determined.Abstracts are due 8 September.
See www.agu.org for details on electronic submission.
9. AGU - Ocean Sciences Special Sessions
Ocean Science Meeting (Februrary 2006 - Hawaii)
Sessions of Interest to CLIVAR
OS019: History of Physical Oceanography
OS029: Connecting Ecosystem Processes With Climate Models: What Is Missing
to Complete This Linkage?
OS032: Decadal Variations in Ocean Interior Circulation and Biogeochemistry:
Results From the CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program
OS034: Observations of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Oceans and Their
Implications for Society
OS037: Development and Application of Ocean Climate Data Records from Space
OS055: Operational Applications of Ocean Satellite Observations
OS075: Role of Eddies in the Upper Ocean
OS078: Eddy-Resolving Ocean Modeling
OS079: Assessing the Oceans' Role in Climate on Decadal to Centennial Timescales:
A Paleo Perspective
OS086: The Indian Ocean: Recent Discoveries, Links to Global Climate, Atmosphere-Ocean
Interaction, and Physical and Biogeochemical Response
OS093: Role of Ocean Salinity in Climate
OS111: Ocean Prediction
OS110: Coastal Ocean Observing Systems: Regional Contributions to Goals of
the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
OS077: Ships and Other Platforms of Opportunity as Tools for Ocean Observation
OS046: Ocean Mixing
Abstracts must be submitted by October 13 (postal mail deadline) or October
20 (electronic submission deadline) at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.
10. AMS Special Sessions
The 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, 29 January-2
February 2006, Atlanta, Georgia
The 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, sponsored
by the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and organized by the AMS
Committee
on
Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, will be held 29 January-2 February
2006, as part of the 86th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Preliminary
programs,
registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS
Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS) in mid-September 2005.
The 86th Annual Meeting is being organized around the broad theme of "Applications
of Weather and Climate Data" with an emphasis on documenting success stories
in the applications of atmospheric, hydrologic and oceanic sciences, and the
research needed to continue benefiting from new knowledge. Two integrating sub-theme
forums to be highlighted are: "Managing our Physical and Natural Resources:
Successes
and Challenges" and "Environmental Risks and Impacts on Commerce."
Abstracts for this conference are solicited on all aspects of air-seainteraction
across the full spectrum of time and spatial scales; from the microscale
processes governing air-sea turbulent fluxes to climate and its fluctuations
(e.g., ENSO).
The list of general sessions will be based on the number and topics of
abstracts received. Although not an exhaustive list, abstracts covering
the following
topics are sought:
1. Remote sensing applied to air-sea interaction
2. In situ air-sea turbulent flux measurements
3. Air-sea turbulent flux parameterizations
4. Extra-tropical air-sea interaction
5. Coupled ocean-atmosphere basin-scale variability
6. Ocean-atmosphere decadal variability
The following special sessions are currently planned:
1. The role of air-sea interaction in tropical cyclones
2. Coupled Boundary Layers/Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) Hurricane
3. Coherent structures in tropical cyclone boundary layers
4. The role of ocean-atmosphere interaction in tropical climate and its
variation
5. Space-based air-sea turbulent fluxes
6. Regional scale air-sea interaction
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 1 August
2005 (refer to the AMS Web site at http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS for
instructions.) An abstract
fee of $60 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged
at the
time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).
The Fourteenth Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere
(14 ISA) will also have a session on VOCALS. The Conference is
part of the
86th AMS
Annual Meeting, which will be held from Friday, 27 January 2006
to Friday, 3 February
2006 in Atlanta, GA. The VOCAL Session will be held on Monday morning,
30 January 2006.
To submit abstracts, please visit: http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2006/14SeaAtmos/papers/index.cgi.
The deadline is August 15th.
A special session will be held on 'Regional Scale Air-Sea Interaction'.
The aim of this session is to explore findings on how the ocean
and atmosphere interact on small, sub-basin scales. Particular
subjects
of interest
include but are not limited to: coastal upwelling and its relationship
to narrow atmospheric
wind jets, atmospheric response to ocean SST fronts and eddies:
and how the atmospheric response feeds back onto the ocean.The
recent availability of cloud-transparent microwave data of the sea surface,
together with scatterometer wind measurements
has significantly
advanced our
understanding of ocean-atmosphere interaction. The mechanisms
of the interaction can also be studied using models. Therefore
papers
are
welcomed
which include
one or more of the following: satellite and in situ observations,
numerical simulations, analytical modelling, and relevant reanalyses
studies.
11. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2006)
The next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2006)
will be held again at the congress centre: Austria Centre Vienna (ACV)
in Vienna, Austria,
from 2-7 April 2006 with an early registration, the opening ceremony and the
icebreaker reception taking place on Sunday, 2 April 2006. The address of the
web site is: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/
We hereby would like to invite you to take an active part in organizing the
scientific programme of that conference. If you have any suggest for a session
and/or for
a convener and/or for a co-convener, please select Call-for-Programme on the
conference web site, choose your programme area, and find the corresponding
Provisional Programme (Skeleton Programme) compiled by the officers of the
respective EGU
Division or Section including the input received from the community at the
last business meetings or later. Please, proceed as indicated on the top of
the various
programmes to include your suggestions.
The general Call-for-Programme will be open for the months of July and August
2005, while in September 2005 the Programme Committee will compile the final
Call-for Papers Programme from all of the suggestions received. During October-
December 2005 there will be the period of an open Call-for-Papers.
September 2005
U.S. CLIVAR News-gram
Table of Contents
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i – Calendar of Upcoming Events
Research Opportunities and Call for Papers
1. NASA Research Announcements
2. 2nd International Young Scientists Global Change Conference Call for Papers
3. DISCCRS II Symposium Opportunity Position Announcements
4. Faculty Position at the University of Wisconsin Announcement: IMBER Update
Meeting and Workshop Announcements
5. 1st AMMA International Meeting
6. AGU 2005 Fall Meeting Sessions
7. Ocean Sciences 2006 Special Sessions
========================================================== CALENDAR of UPCOMING EVENTS (for more information - www.usclivar.org/calendar.html)
September 2005:
8-9: Correcting Tropical Biases Workshop (Calverton, MD)
28-30: Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis (Greenbelt, MD) October 2005:
3-5: Climate Research Committee Meeting - Review of WCRP (Washington, DC)
11-14: CLIVAR/OOPC/ARGO South Pacific Observation System Workshop (Concepcion,
Chile)
17-20: CRCES Workshop on Decadal Variability (Warrenton, VA)
24-28: NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (State College, PA) November 2005:
14-16: International Repeat Hydrography Workshop (Japan)
14-16: CCSP Workshop on Decision Support (Washington, DC)Announcement
===================================== Research Opportunities and Call for Papers
1. NASA Research Announcements NASA announces new due dates for the NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS)
(NOI due date is October 5, 2005;
proposal due date is November 16, 2005). Amendment No. 25 to
NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities
in Space and Earth Sciences" (NNH05ZDA001N) is posted on its homepage
Web site at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/(select "Solicitations" then "Open
Solicitations" then "NNH05ZDA001N").
The major changes include the specific description of solicited
research that falls into four categories:
o Long-term regional merged aerosol and cloud vertical distribution
product,
o Snowfall/mixed precipitation and polar-region information,
o Improved multivariate, multi-instrument WEC retrieval
methods, and
o Predictability: Empirical Estimates and model evaluation.
Further information about this Program Element is available
from Dr. Jared K. Entin, Earth-Sun System Division,
Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC 20546-0001; Telephone: (202) 358-0275; E-mail: Jared.K.Entin@nasa.gov.
New Due Dates for Appendix A.12: Terrestrial Hydrology
The due dates for the Terrestrial Hydrology program have been delayed
beyond those dates announced in Amendment 5. The due date for Notices
of Intent
to propose (NOIs) is changed from September 16, 2005, to November
9, 2005. The due date for proposals is changed from November 16, 2005,
to January
18, 2006.
Research is solicited for observational and modeling studies
designed to understand large-scale dynamics of the terrestrial
hydrosphere, including
improving the observation, understanding, and prediction of the
magnitude, trend, timing, and partitioning of terrestrial water
stores and fluxes. Examples
of terrestrial stores include water contained in the soil, subsurface,
snowpack, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Fluxes involve movement
of water between these
reservoirs, as well as the atmosphere, cyrosphere, and ocean
reservoirs.
Specific research foci desired for proposals to this program
include the following:
o Development of the scientific basis for observing and modeling
large scale terrestrial water-storage dynamics with emphases
on how these processes are
affected by the heterogeneity of soil, vegetation, precipitation,
and topography and their interaction with various biogeochemical
cycles.
o Enhancement of hydrologic model capability and performance
through modern data assimilation techniques to incorporate remotely
sensed observations,
which may include efforts to resolve spatial scale discrepancies
between in situ and satellite observations, as well as those
with hydrologic and
climate model resolutions.
o Understanding and characterizing regional to global scale variability
and prediction of fluxes and storages of the terrestrial hydrosphere.
o Remote sensing of hydrologic fluxes, states, and parameters,
e.g., development of new and innovative remote sensing techniques,
including combined active
and passive microwave observations, to improve the understanding
of the variability of the terrestrial hydrosphere.
o Terrestrial hydrologic controls on the Earth's weather and
climate. Research may include the role of feedback effects of
terrestrial water and energy
stores and hydrologic processes on the regional-to-continental
scale hydrologic cycle, including soil moisture, snow, and freeze-thaw,
on the local weather
and climate, and how those feedbacks effects are modified under
global change scenarios.
o Scientific justification of new measurements, both those involving
satellites and possible long duration suborbital platforms. Research
may include development
of Observing Simulation System Experiments (OSSEs) and/or other
investigations that support, for example:
i) The application of new technologies for remote sensing hydrologic
quantities
and for terrestrial hydrologic interpretation;
ii) Studies on appropriate spatial and temporal sampling scales of new
sensors
for satisfying specific scientific objectives; and/or
iii) Understanding the enhancement on prediction systems by potential
missions.
Research efforts are encouraged to leverage off of various NASA system
components, including Earth observations from Terra, Aqua, and the Gravity
Recovery and
Climate Experiment (GRACE), and available field experiment data.
Assistance
obtaining data from field experiments supported by THP can be found at the
program's website at
http://thp.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
Further information about this Program Element is available from Dr. Jared
K. Entin, Earth-Sun System Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC 20546-0001; Telephone: (202) 358-0275; E-mail: Jared.K.Entin@nasa.gov.
2. 2nd International Young Scientists Global Change Conference Call for Papers
Global Change Conference: 7-8 November 2006; Beijing, China
The Young Scientists' Global Change Conference offers a prestigious platform
for selected young scientists to present their research findings to one another
and to leading scientists in the field. It is intended to stimulate competition,
encourage excellence, reward outstanding performance and foster the development
of personal and institutional networks. The conference is sponsored by the
Earth System Science Partnership (co-sponsorship is anticipated by APN, CMA
IAI, and the USNSF) and is being organized by START, the global change SysTem
for Analysis, Research and Training. It is expected that the young scientists
will also participate in the Earth System Science Partnership's Open Science
Conference, Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges (November 9-12,
2006, Beijing International Conference Center, http://www.essp.org/essp/ESSP2006/
) that immediately follows the Young Scientists' Conference. Awards will
be granted for the most outstanding contributions in both paper and poster
categories and awardees will be invited to present their research to the
Open Science Conference. Distinguished invited keynote speakers will give
plenary presentations. Sessions will be chaired by leading members of the
global change research community. The language of the conference is English.
Call for Papers
Submissions of papers and posters are invited from young scientists
(age 35 years or less) on physical, biological and human aspects of
global
change. Global environmental change refers to change occurring in the interactive
physical, chemical and biological processes that regulate the earth
system, the role of human activities influencing such change, and its
societal
consequences.
Global environmental change includes both (i) environmental changes
which impact the functioning of a global system and (ii) localized
environmental
changes whose cumulative impacts are widespread or which impact a significant
fraction of a global resource. Papers utilizing interdisciplinary approaches
that address the earth system are encouraged.
Conference applications are due on Wednesday, March 2006. Applications
will include abstracts not exceeding 300 words and short curriculum
vitae, to
include present position, highest degree held, and papers published
in the last 5 years. Selection of papers and posters shall be on
the basis of scientific
excellence, taking into account the need to achieve a thematic and
regional balance. Participants will be notified at time of selection
if they have
been selected for a paper or poster presentation. Authors will be encouraged
to publish their presented material in international journals. All
presenters of posters will be given the opportunity to make a brief
oral presentation.
Detailed instructions for applications will be made available in mid-September
2005 through the Conference organizers and the START website: www.start.org.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a preliminary expression
of interest form (see below) by Tuesday, November 15, 2005 to facilitate
conference
organization, ensure relevancy to the conference topic and receive
application instructions. All inquires and submissions must be made
electronically to
Conference organizers at: ysc@agu.org .
Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of June 2006. Additional
information including details about the conference arrangements, venue
and scientific programme will also be provided at that time to participants. Costs
Wherever possible, those having papers/posters accepted will have their
full costs (including registration and travel accommodations) covered.
Depending
on funds available, participants from developed countries may be required
to cover some portion of their own travel expenses.
Conference programme
Sun, 5 Nov. 2006: Registration and welcome reception
Mon, 6 Nov. 2006: Conference excursion
Tue, 7 Nov. 2006: Opening and Conference Day 1
Wed, 8 Nov. 2006: Conference Day 2, closing ceremony, dinner and awards Venue
The conference will be held at the Beijing International Convention
Center and is being held in conjunction with the ensuing Earth System
Science Partnership's
Open Science Conference, 9-13 November 2006. It is expected that accommodation
will be provided within the Center.
Important deadlines
Expression of interest form: 15 November 2005
Abstract submission: 01 March 2006
Notice of acceptance: 30 June 2006
Registration form deadline: 15 July 2006 Contact
If you have questions, please contact Ms Amy Freise via email: ysc@agu.org.
3. DISCCRS II Symposium Opportunity
March 26 - April 2, 2006
Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, CA
DISCCRS (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change
Research).
Applications are invited from recent Ph.D. graduates doing climate-change/impacts
research for the Spring 2006 DISCCRS II Symposium (application
deadline of Oct. 2, 2005). DISCCRS (pronounced discourse) is an
interdisciplinary
opportunity
for recent Ph.D.graduates engaged in climate-change research. http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf
DISCCRS Rationale: After years of specialization, today's graduates
increasingly find themselves on a multi-dimensional trajectory
that requires a breadth
of knowledge sufficient to make connections between distant disciplines,
and a global network of colleagues from different backgrounds.
It can take years to gain the necessary collegial networks and
experience
to work effectively.
DISCCRS, an initiative funded by NSF and NASA, seeks to jump-start
the process.
Recent Ph.D. graduates from all disciplines and countries are invited
to join the DISCCRS program and apply to be a DISCCRS Symposium
Fellow.
Symposia: Annual symposia, funded for 2006, 2007 and 2008, will
bring together 36 new scholars from the physical/natural and
social sciences
to foster understanding
across disciplines and catalyze formation of an interdisciplinary,
international collegial network. Participants will present their
research in plenary sessions.
Established interdisciplinary professionals will be on hand to
share their perspectives. Consultants will teach participants
to communicate
across disciplines
and with a non-specialist audience. Representatives of Federal
agencies will describe programs and funding opportunities.
Eligibility: Graduates completing Ph.D. requirements between
Oct. 1, 2002 - Sept. 30,2005 are eligible to apply for the
DISCCRS II
Symposium,
to be
held March 26 - April 2, 2006 at the Asilomar Conference Center,
CA.
Application deadline is October 2, 2005. Support for symposium travel and
on-site expenses will be provided for selected applicants.
Electronic Resources: An electronic newsletter and web-based
resources make the DISCCRS program accessible to a global
audience. A unique
feature is
the on-line Ph.D. Dissertation Registry, which introduces
graduates to a world-wide community and provides a concise overview
of
current work. The
webpage archives resources developed for and by symposium
participants.
Graduates from all disciplines and countries are encouraged
to register their Ph.D. dissertation abstract using the convenient
on-line form
at: http://aslo.org/forms/phdform.html.
Contact: Susan Weiler, weilercs@whitman.edu
4. FACULTY POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
anticipates the availability of a tenure-track Assistant
Professor position
beginning August
2006. The department seeks energetic and creative individuals
to develop vigorous research and teaching programs focused
on the
earth's atmosphere
and oceans, including modeling, measurements, and observational
diagnoses.
The department continues to sustain and enhance its historical
strength in the areas of climate, remote sensing, and weather
systems. The AOS
Department
is co-located with the Space Science and Engineering Center
(SSEC), Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite
Studies (CIMSS),
as well as the Center
for Climate Research (CCR) and the Center for Sustainability
and the Global Environment (SAGE) which are housed within
the Gaylord
Nelson
Institute for
Environmental Studies.
Applications are encouraged from scientists representing
the full spectrum of the atmospheric and oceanic sciences,
especially
those
having expertise
in one or more of the following areas: (1) observations
and modeling of climate processes, variability, and change;
(2)
regional to
global hydrological processes
in the climate system; (3) ocean biogeochemical observations
and modeling; (4) surface-atmosphere interactions and boundary
layer
processes; and
(5) applications-oriented data assimilation.
Ph.D. in atmospheric and oceanic sciences or related area
is required prior to the start of the appointment. The
primary selection criteria
will be
individual excellence in research, the ability to contribute
to teaching of our "core" atmospheric
science courses, and a strong commitment to the intellectual and
academic vitality of the department and university as a whole.
In order to ensure full consideration, a curriculum vitae,
statement of professional goals, and three letters of reference
should
be sent by October 15, 2005
to:
Professor Jonathan E. Martin, Chair
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
1225 W. Dayton Street
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1695
Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information
regarding the applicants must be released upon request.
Finalists cannot
be guaranteed confidentiality. The University of Wisconsin
- Madison is an equal
opportunity
employer. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged
to apply.
Announcement: IMBER Update
The IMBER Science Plan and Implementation Strategy has
been published. The plan will be sent out to all those
on the
mailing list in
the next couple
of weeks and is on the website for down loading from the
IMBER web-site: www.IMBER.info
The IMBER IPO will open on August 22nd at IUEM in Brest
with two staff members. Sylvie Roy the Executive Officer
and Elena
Fily
the Administrative
Assistant.
The position of Deputy Executive Officer is currently being
advertised. Please see the web-site for details.
A Chinese proposal (by Jing Zhang and his team) for IMBER
and GLOBEC research in China for the next 5 years has been
funded.
Meetings and Workshop Announcements
5. African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis - 1st International
Conference
Dakar, 28 November - 4 December 2005
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary
Analysis (AMMA) is an international project to improve our knowledge
and understanding
of the
West African monsoon (WAM)
and its variability with an emphasis on daily-to-interannual
timescales. AMMA is motivated by an interest
in fundamental scientific issues
and by the societal need for improved prediction
of the WAM and its impacts
on West
African nations. This conference aims to bring
together researchers from around the world working on the WAM and
its impacts, to
review ongoing
research
activities
and to discuss future contributions and directions
within the AMMA research programme. It also provides
an ideal
opportunity for establishing
and coordinating
collaborations, in particular with African scientists
in AMMANET.The conference takes place within
the enhanced observing period and just ahead of the AMMA special
observing period
in 2006.
Recognising the societal need to develop strategies
that reduce the socioeconomic impacts of the variability
of
the WAM, AMMA
facilitates the multidisciplinary
research required to provide improved predictions
of the WMA and its
impacts. This is achieved and coordinated through
5 international working groups:
1)West African monsoon and global
climate; 2) Water cycle; 3) Land-surface atmosphere feedbacks; 4)Prediction
of climate
impacts
and 5)High
impact weather prediction and predictability.
These
5 research areas also
constitute the
main themes of the conference.
Abstracts (max 250 words) for the conference
should be e-mailed to Cheikh Kane (dakar2005@amm-int.org)
by 15 August
2005
indicating the
research theme
in which the abstract belongs. Please indicate
preference for an oral or poster presentation.
Extended abstracts
will be
sought after mid-September
for an inclusion in a conference publication.
For further information, the conference web site is: www.amma-international.org/conferences/dakar2005
6. AGU Fall Meeting
You are cordially invited to submit related
abstracts to the AGU Fall meeting sessions A16: Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes and
Interactions in the Eastern Pacific
The importance of ocean-atmosphere-land interactions
in the tropical and subtropical eastern Pacific
region to
climate
in the Americas
is well recognized.
Several recent field experiments aim at a
better description and understanding of key
interactive
processes. EPIC2001
has examined
the coupled ocean-atmosphere
system in the eastern Pacific ITCZ, along
the meridional cross-section at 95 deg W
longitude
from the ITCZ
to the equator, and in
the marine stratocumulus
region off Peru. The follow-on VOCALS will
focus on the stratocumulus cloud deck off
South America
and its interaction
with the
ocean, which exerts a
basin-wide influence on tropical Pacific
climate. DYCOMS-II examined the dynamics
and chemistry
of marine stratocumulus
in the NE
Pacific. Results
from these process studies including oceanographic
and atmospheric measurements, related modeling,
analysis, and
progress toward
incorporating findings into
climate models will be summarized in this
session, along with contributions from other
investigators
working on
eastern Pacific
Ocean-atmosphere-land
interactions. A20: Clouds and Radiation
There will be a session (A20) at this fall's
AGU focused on what has been learned about
variability
(or otherwise)
from
observations
of
clouds, radiation
and related properties of the atmosphere
and surface, over the last several years.
The AGU Fall meeting is scheduled for Dec
5-9 2005 in San Francisco. The exact date
of session
A16
is to be determined.
Abstracts are due 8 September. See www.agu.org
for details on electronic submission.
7. AGU - Ocean Sciences Special Sessions
Ocean Science Meeting (Februrary 2006 - Hawaii)
Sessions of Interest to CLIVAR
OS093: Role of Ocean Salinity in Climate
Conveners: James Carton, Ray Schmitt and
Gary Lagerloef
Ocean salinity is a key variable related
to the interactions between the Earthís
water cycle, ocean circulation and
climate. Understanding
its importance in climate
variability involves studying topics
such as (1) the influence of salinity
variability
on tropical dynamics and ENSO,
(2)
large scale salinity changes in mid
to high latitudes that influence mode
water
formation and ocean
convective overturning circulation
and (3) closure
of the global ocean-atmosphere freshwater
balance. This session welcomes presentations
on these
general topics
and other processes that define
the role of ocean salinity in climate. OS065: High-Latitude Ocean Dynamics and
Biogeochemistry
Conveners: Irina Marinov (MIT) imarinov@mit.edu;
Mick Follows (MIT) mick@ocean.mit.edu;
Arnold Gordon (Lamont-Doherty/Columbia)
agordon@ldeo.columbia.edu
The global carbon cycle is strongly regulated
by the large reservoirs of carbon and
nutrients in
the ocean's deep
waters. However,
observational constraints
and the low resolution of global carbon
cycle models leave us without a clear
understanding
of the physical-biogeochemical
interactions
which set the deep
water properties such as pre-formed nutrients
and the disequilibrium
carbon pump at the point of deepwater
formation and shortly thereafter.
We seek to bring together physical and
biogeochemical oceanographers to address
the dynamics of
high latitude processes and
their implications for regional
and global ocean biogeochemical cycling.
We encourage contributions from both
observational and theoretical
perspectives concerning
the physical and
biogeochemical dynamics of high latitudes
waters,
observations of the physical and biogeochemical
properties of the oceans
deep waters, interpretation
of
the implications for atmospheric carbon
dioxide and relevance for climate change. OS086: The Indian Ocean: Recent Discoveries,
Links to Global Climate, Atmosphere-Ocean
Interaction and Physical and
Biogeochemical Response
Conveners: Raleigh R. Hood, University
of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science,
P.O. Box
775, Cambridge, MD.,
21613,
email: rhood@hpl.umces.edu
Julian P. McCreary, International Pacific
Research Center, University of Hawaii,
1680 East-West
Road, Honolulu, HI,
96822, email: jay@hawaii.edu
Raghu
Murtugudde, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary
Center, University of Maryland, 2207
CSC Bldg., College Park, MD,
20742-2465, email:
raghu@essic.umd.edu Jerry Wiggert, Center
for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old
Dominion University,
768 W. 52nd Street, Norfolk, VA. 23508,
email: jwiggert@ccpo.odu.edu P. N. Vinayachandran,
Centre
for Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, India, 560 012,
email:
vinay@caos.iisc.ernet.in
The objective of this special session
is to convene an interdisciplinary group
of
scientists
to review
recent
discoveries in the Indian
Ocean, including those related to atmosphere-ocean
interaction, linkages to
global climate
and the physical and biogeochemical response
of the IO to variability spanning seasonal
to decadal
and longer
time-scales.
In so
doing, we hope to identify
prominent gaps in our understanding,
especially as they pertain to physical
and biogeochemical
interactions, and
our ability
to predict
how the IO will
respond to climatic variability and long
term global warming trends. OS111: Ocean Prediction
Conveners:Allan Robinson, Harvard University,
USA, robinson@pacific.deas.harvard.edu;
Peter Oke, CSIRO,
Australia, peter.oke@csiro.au Oscar Alves,
BMRC, Australia, o.alves@bom.gov.au Christopher
Mooers, University of
Miami, USA, cmooers@rsmas.miami.edu
Over the past quarter century ocean prediction
has grown into a vigorous and essential
component of contemporary
ocean science
and technology.
There has been a shift towards operational
ocean forecasting and
ocean reanalyzes
for applications ranging from coastal
scales to the global ocean. Issues that
could be
discussed under this session
include: 1)
Short-range ocean prediction; 2) Dynamical
climate
forecasts (seasonal/decadal);
3) Ocean data
assimilation methods and their application;
4) Ocean re-analyses; 5)
Multi-scale prediction; 6) Interdisciplinary
prediction (physics, biology, acoustics,
etc.); 7) Validation and evaluation of
prediction schemes and their uncertainties;
8) The development
of efficient
and effective
integrated
systems. The present
research frontiers of ocean prediction
include multi-scale, fully interdisciplinary
prediction,
and require advances
in the use
of suites of coupled models
for interdisciplinary data assimilation.
There are mutual benefits to be realized
if the global/basin scale modeling and
regional/coastal ocean modeling communities
achieve improved
interchange. This session
is intended
to facilitate this
interchange of ideas and experiences
across the growing ocean forecasting
community.
Abstracts must be submitted by October
13 (postal mail deadline) or October
20 (electronic
submission
deadline)
at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.
December
2005
U.S. CLIVAR News-gram
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