Arctic System Modeling Workshop II
Science Planning

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

Meeting Summary

The University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center held a community workshop on the implementation of a community limited area Arctic System Model or Portfolio of Models in Boulder, Colorado, May 19-21, 2008. This workshop addressed 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. A list of workshop participants is available here.

The aim of the workshop was to discuss viable approaches for development of a limited area Community Arctic System Model. Presentations and working documents from the meeting can be downloaded from the meeting agenda page on this website. Meeting outcomes, downloads and links to other ASM meetings are available here. For further information on the science content of the meeting, please email Andrew Roberts (aroberts@arsc.edu). Also see websites for the ASM I and ASM III meetings.

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

Sponsor

International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks