Arctic System Model Workshop

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

Meeting Summary

The University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center held a 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 the participants attending the meeting is available here.

The aim of the workshop was to discuss viable approaches for development of an international limited area Community Arctic System Model. Presentations and working documents from the meeting can be downloaded from meeting agenda page on this website.

If you were funded by IARC to attend the workshop, please read the guidelines for reimbursement to learn how to claim your expenses. If you have questions regarding reimbursement, 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