Session 5 |
| | Rapid Polar Environmental Change |
| | Chair: Ian Eisenman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Arctic Rapid Change Pattern (ARP): An Accelerating Impetus for Recent Rapid Arctic Climate System Changes 
Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Solar heating, reduced snow cover, and warming from carbonaceous particles
Mark G. Flanner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Zender, P. Hess, N. Mahowald, T. Painter, V. Ramanathan, and P. Rasch |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Seasonal sea ice predictability in a rapidly changing Arctic
Marika M. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Bailey and S. J. Vavrus |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Arctic sea ice retreats in 2007 and 2008 follow thinning trend
Ron Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. Schweiger, J. Zhang, M. Steele, and H. Stern |