Arctic System Model Workshop

May 19-21, 2008
NCAR Center Green
Boulder, Colorado

Meeting Summary

The University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center is holding a workshop on the implementation of a community limited area Arctic System Model or Portfolio of Models in Boulder, Colorado, May 19-21. This workshop will address a growing need for numerical tools to downscale information from global models to the temporal and spatial resolution of in-situ and satellite measurements and scales appropriate for planning for economic and social change in the Arctic. The workshop was announced in two issues of EOS (PDF), the CliC Newsletter (PDF) and ArcticInfo following an initial announcement (PDF) of the meeting at the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. Applications were due on March 15, 2008 and have now closed. A list of the 46 participants attending the meeting is available here.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss viable approaches for development of an international limited area Community Arctic System Model or Portfolio of Models. It is anticipated that an ensuing Community Arctic System Model or Portfolio of Models will capitalize on developments in software to interface clusters of component models, enabling modeling groups to apply their own work and removing the limitation of selecting single ocean, atmospheric or other component models for the project. Ultimately, the Community Arctic System Model Project aims to develop a suite of high resolution tools to understand the arctic as an integrated system, refine model inter comparison, reduce uncertainty in arctic climate projections and provide meaningful tools for stakeholders to help them plan for future conditions in the Arctic. The agenda for the meeting is available here or via the side menu.

If you are attending the workshop, information on getting to the NCAR Center Green is available, together with travel and lodging information is available using the side menu. If you have been provided with funds by IARC to attend the workshop, please read the guidelines for reimbursement before you embark on your travel to the workshop. If you have questions regarding travel or logistics, please contact Vicky Zins (vzins@iarc.uaf.edu).

For further information on the science content of the meeting, please email Andrew Roberts (aroberts@arsc.edu).

Organizing Committee

Prof. Larry Hinzman, International Arctic Research Center
Prof. John E. Walsh, International Arctic Research Center
Dr. Andrew Roberts, International Arctic Research Center & Arctic
Region Supercomputing Center
Dr. Marika Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dr. John Cassano, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Dr. Ralf Döscher, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Dr. Humio Mitsudera, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University