Call for Abstracts
AS2.3 Boundary Layers in High Latitudes: Physical and Chemical Processes Including Atmosphere-Ice Chemical Interactions (AICI)
Convener: WD Neff
Co-Conveners: G Heinemann, A. Jones, S. Argentini, P. Anderson, T. Bartels-Rausch, V.. McNeill
This session is intended to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers working in the areas of high-latitude tropospheric meteorology, chemistry, oceanography, and climate with an emphasis on the role of boundary layer processes that mediate exchanges between the Earth's surface (snow, ice, ocean and land) and the atmosphere. We invite contributions in the following areas:
(1) Results from field programs and observatories
(2) Insight from laboratory studies
(3) Surface processes including snow, ice, ocean,land/atmosphere chemical exchange
(4) The role of boundary layers in polar climate change and implications of climate change for surface exchange processes, especially in the context of reduced Arctic sea ice
(4) Advances in modeling and reanalysis, including model assessment of boundary layer processes
(6) Research that bridges atmospheric chemistry and boundary-layer meteorology in the polar regions
(7) Observation and modeling of surface energy budgets
(8) Coastal processes
(9) Application/demonstration of new technology.
(10) Application to other fields including, for example, astronomical siting, biogeochemistry etc.
The abstract submission
deadline for this and all other sessions is Tuesday,
17 January 2012 at midnight CET. To submit an abstract, please log in or create an account at :
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