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Polar Dynamics: Monitoring, Understanding, and Prediction

Written by Kristen Ulstein, Kommunikasjonsrådgiver

Published: 11.06.2007

An open science conference on Polar Dynamics is to be held August 29-31, 2007, in Bergen, Norway. The conference will commemorate the 90-year anniversary of the Geophysical Institute in Bergen and of the Norwegian Geophysical Society, both founded in 1917.

Among the many world-known scientists working at the institute during the first decades were V. Bjerknes with his young assistants including J. Bjerknes, H. Solberg, C. G. Rossby, T. Bergeron, the group known as the Bergen School in Meteorology, and also the oceanographers B. Helland-Hansen, H. U. Sverdrup, and J. E. Fjeldstad. Many of the same scientists were also founders of the Norwegian Geophysical Society.

Much of the research at the institute was from the beginning tightly connected to the high latitudes in both hemispheres, a tradition that has persevered until present. Despite numerous field campaigns, and the developments of satellite sensors and high-speed computers, many of the questions that puzzled the scientists 90 or more years ago, are still unresolved.

Paleo-records reveal rapid changes in climate in the past that most likely were linked to air/sea/ice processes taking place in the high north. Furthermore, climate models show that the largest response to anthropogenic climate forcing will likely occur in this sensitive region. In order to improve our knowledge about the many processes taking place in the high latitudes, with the aims to improve regional weather forecasts on daily to seasonal scales, to quantify the consequences of anthropogenic forcing on decadal to centennial scales, and to assess the likelihood of climate surprises in the future, a strategic combination of observations, process studies and numerical models are needed.

The aim of the conference is to provide an overview of ongoing and emerging monitoring programs; recent advances in process studies and understanding, and new opportunities for prediction based on state-of-the-art regional or general circulation models of the high-latitude systems.

For program and further details visit the conference website.

Last updated: 24.04.2008

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