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CAOS Workshop Schedule

Friday, February 22, 2008



 8:30AM             
Continental Breakfast & Registration
 Session Chair: David Holland
 9:00AMAnny Cazenave
Present-Day Sea Level Rise: Current Understanding and Major Uncertainties
 Robert Bindschadler      Ocean-Ice Sheet Interaction: The Glaciological Perspective
 10:30 - 11:00AM
Coffee Break
 11:00AMRobert Thomas
Ice Sheet Contributions to Sea Level Rise: Answers and Questions from Remote Sensing
 Waleed Abdalati
Major Contributions of Remote Sensing to Understanding Ice Sheet Behavior
 Eric Rignot
Radar Remote Sensing Observations of Ice Shelf Bottom Melting in Antarctica
 12:30 - 2:00PM
Lunch
 Session Chair: Richard Kleeman
 2:00PMStan Jacobs
Ocean Observations near the Antarctic Ice Sheet
 Adrian Jenkins
On the Sensitivity of Ice Shelf Basal Melting to the Temperature of the Antarctic Continental Shelf Seas
 Miles McPhee
Heat and Mass Exchange at the Ice-Sea water Interface: What is known and what is not
 3:30 - 4:00PM
Coffee Break
 4:00PMDavid Holland
Ice-Ocean Physics to Include in Climate Models: Observations from the Ilussiant Ice Fjord
 Todd Ringler
Modeling Ice Shelf-Ocean Interaction
 Matthew Piggott
Unstructured Meshes and Adaptivity for 3D Multi-Scale Ocean Modelling

Saturday, February 23, 2008



 8:30AM                
Continental Breakfast
 Session Chair: Andrew Majda
 9:00AMTony Payne                    
Progress in Developing a Higher-Order Model of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
 Frank Pattyn  
Higher-Order Modelling of Ice Sheet/Ice Stream/Ice Shelf Transition
 Ed Bueler  
Dynamics, Numerics, and Plain Old Ignorance: Progress and Problems in Ice Sheet/Stream/Shelf Modelling
 10:30 - 11:00AM
Coffee Break
 11:00AMCornelis Vanderveen
Subglacial Geology and Basal Boundary Conditions for Ice-Sheet Models
 Jesse Johnson
Ice Sheet Models: Physical Basis, Numerical Treatments and Software Developments
 Tad W. Pfeffer
Unresolved Physics in Basal and Englacial Dynamics
 12:30 - 2:00PM
Lunch
 Session Chair: Esteban Tabak
 2:00PMAyako Abe-Ouchi
Ice Sheet Modelling with MIROC GCM for the Past Ice Sheet Change and the Future Prediction
 Bill Lipscomb
Coupling Ice Sheet Models to Global Climate Models
 Jeff Ridley
Is the Decline of the Greenland Ice Sheet Reversible? GCM-Ice Sheet Model
3:00PM
Gavin Schmidt
Challenges in Incorporating Ice-Sheet Models in Coupled GCM's
 Greg Flato
Representation of the Cryosphere in the CCma Climate Model
 Chris Little 
GFDL's Climate and Cryosphere Modeling Efforts
 4:00PMFinal Break