Session 5 Rapid Polar Environmental Change

Tuesday, 19 May 2009: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM
Capitol Ballroom AB (Madison Concourse Hotel)
Host: 10th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair:
Ian Eisenman, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA

Papers:
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, Fairbanks, AK
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
5.2
Solar heating, reduced snow cover, and warming from carbonaceous particles
Mark G. Flanner, University of Michigan, Ann ARbor, MI; and C. S. Zender, P. Hess, N. Mahowald, T. Painter, V. Ramanathan, and P. Rasch
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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

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