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Sunday, 13 May 2001
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 14 May 2001
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 18 May
	8:30 AM, Monday Welcoming Remarks: Jennifer A. Francis, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
	8:45 AM-10:00 AM, Monday Session 1 Observed Polar Changes and Possible Causes
Organizer: Jennifer A. Francis, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
8:45 AM 1.1 The submarine record of Arctic sea ice draft: what is it telling us? (INVITED)   D. Andrew Rothrock, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 9:15 AM 1.2 Sea Ice and Ice Temperature Variability as Observed by Microwave and Infrared Satellite Data   Josefino C. Comiso, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 9:30 AM 1.3 A comparison of feedback processes in the Arctic during past and future warm climates   Steve Vavrus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 9:45 AM 1.4 Mechanisms in the Development of Anomalous Sea Ice Extent in the Western Arctic: A Case Study   Amanda H. Lynch, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Maslanik and J. J. Cassano
	10:00 AM, Monday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-11:59 AM, Monday Session 1 Observed Polar Changes and Possible Causes: Continued
Organizer: Miles McPhee, McPhee Research Company, Naches, WA
10:30 AM 1.5 The Loss of Decades Old Sea Ice Plugs in the Canadian Arctic Islands   T. A. Agnew, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and B. Alt, R. De Abreu, and S. Jeffers 10:45 AM 1.6 Arctic Ocean/Sea-ice Response to Climate Variability in a Coupled Model   Xiangdong Zhang, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and M. Ikeda 11:00 AM 1.7 Possible dynamic and thermal causes for the recent decrease in sea ice in the Arctic Basin   Alexander P. Makshtas, IARC, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. V. Shoutilin and E. L. Andreas 1.8 Using wavelet analysis to examine four-dimensional changes in sea ice and relating these to atmospheric patterns   Laura E. Chasmer, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and E. F. LeDrew 11:14 AM 1.8a Satellite-Observed Changes in Energy Advection within the Arctic (formerly paper number 1.19)   Jennifer A. Francis, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Cermak 11:29 AM 1.9 Southern Ocean Sea Ice Processes Associated with the Southern Oscillation   Ronald Kwok, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Comiso 11:44 AM 1.10 Coastal polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea: variability of the surface energy budget   Ian A. Renfrew, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and J. C. King and T. Markus
	12:00 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday Session 1 Observed Polar Changes and Possible Causes: Continued
Organizer: Josefino C. Comiso, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 1.11 Relationships between fast ice and local meteorological conditions at Davis Station, East Antarctica: A case study   Petra Heil, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 1:45 PM 1.12 Interannual variability of Arctic Ocean temperature and salinity fields for fifties-eighties by spectral analysis method   Oleg M. Pokrovsky, Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia; and L. A. Timokhov 2:00 PM 1.13 Coherence and trends of anomalies in Barents Sea hydrographic data and Arctic atmospheric systems   Sarah Zimmermann, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and M. Johnson 2:15 PM 1.14 Temperature Decadal Change over Polar Region as seen from TOVS and NCEP Reanalysis   Muyin Wang, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland and N. A. Bond 2:30 PM 1.15 A new data set for monitoring snowmelt onset over Arctic sea ice   Mark R. Anderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and S. D. Drobot 2:45 PM 1.16 Is the dramatic surface warming observed in the Antarctic Peninsula also present throughout the troposphere?   Gareth J. Marshall, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
	3:00 PM, Monday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday Session 1 Observed Polar Changes and Possible Causes: Continued
Organizer: Ronald Kwok, JPL, Pasadena, CA
3:30 PM 1.17 The effect on southern hemisphere circulation and Antarctic coastal climate of changing baroclinicity   Bradley F. Murphy, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. Pettre and I. Simmonds 3:45 PM 1.18 Antarctic Changes Associated with Global Warming towards Equilibrium for Different Levels of Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gases   Xingren Wu, Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; and W. F. Budd 3:59 PM 1.19 Paper moved to number 1.8A.   4:00 PM 1.20 Spatial and temporal variations in monthly averaged cloud cover based on AVHHR Polar Pathfinder data   Sheldon Drobot, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Maslanik and C. Fowler 4:15 PM 1.21 Regional and temporal variations in arctic cloudiness   John A. Beesley, National Ice Center, Washington, DC 4:30 PM 1.22 Greenland precipitation variability in recent years retrieved by an initialization dynamic method and its relation to atmospheric circulation   Qiu-Shi Chen, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich and L. Bai 4:45 PM 1.23 Cyclone Activity around the Greenland Ice Sheet for Last 50 Years   Lin Li, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich
	5:00 PM, Monday Sessions end for the day
Tuesday, 15 May 2001
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday Session 2 Large-scale Atmospheric Circulations, Oscillations, and Interactions
Organizer: Uma Bhatt, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
8:30 AM 2.1 Hemispheric modes, regimes and forced change (INVITED)   John C. Fyfe, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada 9:00 AM 2.2 Signals of ENSO in the atmospheric circulation around the Antarctic Peninsula   John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and G. J. Marshall 9:15 AM 2.3 Relating West Antarctic surface meteorology to the large-scale atmospheric circulation   David B. Reusch, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and R. B. Alley 9:30 AM 2.4 Intraseasonal development of a West Pacific pole to pole teleconnection during late austral winter   Keith M. Hines, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich 9:45 AM 2.5 ARCMIP: Arctic Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project   Amanda H. Lynch, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Curry
	10:00 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday Session 2 Large-scale Atmospheric Circulations, Oscillations, and Interactions: Continued
Organizer: Michael L. Van Woert, National Ice Center, Washington, DC
10:30 AM 2.6 Impacts of Winter Arctic Oscillation on the Siberian High, the East Asian Winter Monsoon, and Sea-Ice Extent   Jia Wang, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and B. Wu 10:45 AM 2.7 The Arctic Oscillation as the driver of spring warmings   James E. Overland, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and M. Wang and N. A. Bond 2.8 The influence of the Arctic Oscillation on the atmospheric moisture budget   David G. Groves, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 2.9 Simulation of mass and moisture transport in a regional climate model of the Arctic   Richard I. Cullather, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. H. Lynch 11:00 AM 2.10 Spatial and temporal variability of Arctic Basin precipitation   David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and S. H. Wang and E. N. Cassano 11:15 AM 2.11 Towards prediction of snowmelt onset over Arctic sea ice   Sheldon Drobot, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. R. Anderson
	12:00 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday Session 2 Large-scale Atmospheric Circulations, Oscillations, and Interactions: Continued
Organizer: Steve Vavrus, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1:30 PM 2.12 Influence of the Aleutian-Icelandic low seesaw on the Arctic Oscillation   Meiji Honda, IGCR, Tokyo, Japan; and H. Nakamura and J. Ukita 1:45 PM 2.13 Interactions between the Odden sea ice peninsula and the North Atlantic Oscillation   Laura E. Chasmer, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and E. F. LeDrew 2:00 PM 2.14 Atmospheric regional climate simulations over Greenland with the Polar MM5   John J. Cassano, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich
	2:45 PM, Tuesday 1 Poster Session P1: Oral Briefing (1 Minute/1 Viewgraph)
	4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 Formal Viewing with Reception (Cash Bar)
Organizer: Mark R. Anderson, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
P1.1 The effects of keels and frozen leads on under ice turbulence   Eric D. Skyllingstad, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. Paulson, W. S. Pegau, T. Stanton, and M. McPhee   P1.2 Nested Character of Arctic Thermohaline Intrusions   David Walsh, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Carmack   P1.3 Observations of the optical properties of the upper ocean during SHEBA   W. S. Pegau, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. A. Paulson   P1.4 Ocean Circulation and Shelf-basin Exchanges in the Canada Basin from a High Resolution Model   Waldemar Walczowski, NPS, Monterey, CA; and W. Maslowski, D. C. Marble, and A. J. Semtner   P1.5 Inter-seasonal and inter-decadal variability of freshwater and heat content in the Arctic Ocean   Inna Shapiro, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Wang, R. Colony, and M. Ikeda   P1.6 Modeling the surface energy budget and the temperature structure of snow and brine-snow at Ice Station Weddell   Rachel E. Jordan, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and E. L. Andreas and A. P. Makshtas   P1.7 Historical variability in the Arctic sea ice extent   Roger Colony, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and I. Shapiro   P1.8 Microwave radiometer observations of integrated atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water at ARM's NSA site using new Absorption Models   Brad W. Orr, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and T. Uttal   P1.9 Single-column model simulations of arctic cloudiness and surface radiative fluxes during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA) experiment   Cecile Hannay, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and U. S. Bhatt and J. Y. Harrington   P1.10 An Assessment of long-term surface solar flux measurements in polar regions for trend detection   Marc Chiacchio, AS&M, Inc., Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, Jr   P1.11 Airborne spectral reflectance observations at SHEBA from NCAR's Multichannel Cloud Radiometer (MCR)   Mark A. Tschudi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. K. Laursen   P1.12 An LES study of ice microphysical influences on roll cloud structure and dynamics off-ice flow   Jerry Y. Harrington, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and P. Q. Olsson   P1.13 Effects of Ozone Column and Ozone Profiles on Global Spectral Ultraviolet Irradiance at the South Pole   Germar H. Bernhard, Biospherical Instruments Inc., San Diego, CA; and C. R. Booth and J. C. Ehramjian   P1.14 OPERATIONAL USE OF POLAR ORBITTING SATELLITE IMAGERY IN THE PRAIRIE AVIATION AND ARCTIC WEATHER CENTRE   Steve Ricketts, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. Hudson   P1.15 An arctic meteorology and climate atlas on CD-ROM   Florence M. Fetterer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO; and V. Radionov   P1.16 Further Experiments in Mesoscale Ensemble Forecasting in the Western Arctic   Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Ke, J. Long, and E. L'Herault   P1.17 Is there a correlation between synoptic activity and ice divergence in the Cosmonaut Sea?   T. E. Arbetter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. H. Lynch and D. A. Bailey   P1.18 Long-term variability of the free atmosphere in the Arctic   Valentina V. Maistrova, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; and A. P. Nagurny, R. Colony, and A. P. Makshtas   P1.19 On the Antarctic surface mass balance in atmospheric GCMS   Christophe Genthon, LGGE/CNRS, Saint Martin d'Hères, France; and G. Krinner   P1.20 Sensitivity of Antarctic Precipitation to Sea Ice Concentrations in a General Circulation Model   John W. Weatherly, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH   P1.21 A comparison of surface-layer and surface turbulent-flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses   Ian A. Renfrew, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and G. W. K. Moore, P. S. Guest, and K. Bumke   P1.22 Arctic Surface Temperature: A Comparison among Satellite Retrievals and Conventional Observations   Yonghua Chen, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and J. Miller and J. A. Francis   P1.23 Boundary layer mean and turbulence properties over the Arctic ocean during the spring and summer seasons   Qing Wang, NPS, Monterey, CA; and S. Wang and S. Fan   P1.24 Data Management for Arctic Research Field Projects: Progress and Prospects   Gregory Stossmeister, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Moore   P1.25 General circulation and transport in the pan Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean   Meibing Jin, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Wang, F. J. Saucier, and M. Ikeda   P1.26 Horizontal Variations in the Net Heat Flux of a Springtime Freezing Lead   James O. Pinto, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. Alam, J. A. Maslanik, and R. S. Stone   P1.27 A modeling and observational investigation of North Atlantic SST anomalies and their effects on Eurasian snow cover   Kristi R. Arsenault, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. H. Bromwich and K. M. Hines   P1.28 Antarctic mesoscale prediction system (AMPS): A Case Study from the 2000/2001 field season   David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH; and A. J. Monaghan, J. J. Cassano, J. G. Powers, Y. H. Kuo, and A. Pellegrini   P1.29 Comparison of cloud properties at a coastal and inland site at the North Slope of Alaska   J. C. Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. C. Barnard, S. Zhong, and C. Jakob   P1.30 Modeling the Energy Budget of the Arctic Ocean   James R. Miller, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and G. L. Russell   P1.31 Observations of Surface Heat Fluxes During the Spring Melt on the North Slope of Alaska   William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. M. Hubbe, A. J. Drake, and J. C. Doran   P1.32 Polar Cloud and Climate Observations by the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System   James D. Spinhirne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Mahesh, E. J. Welton, J. R. Campbell, S. P. Palm, W. Hart, and D. Hlavka P1.33 Late Holocene climate fluctuation in South Greenland and disappearance of the Norse culture   Naja Mikkelsen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark; and K. G. Jensen and A. Kuijpers   P1.34 The Greenland Crest as a Test laboratory for Iceshield-Air Interaction Processes   George W. Weidner, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI   P1.35 Siple Dome Snow Temperatures, 1999-2001   George W. Weidner, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
	6:00 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 16 May 2001
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday Joint Session 1 Air-Sea Interactions in High Latitudes (Joint with the Sixth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Organizer: Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
8:00 AM J1.1 SEAFLUX: Ocean Surface Turbulent Flux Project (Invited)   Judith A. Curry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. B. Rossow, J. Schulz, and R. Weller 8:30 AM J1.2 Polar-tropical interactions involving the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica (INVITED)   David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and K. M. Hines 9:00 AM J1.3 Sea ice response to wind forcing from AMIP models (INVITED)   Cecilia M. Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. C. Fyfe, G. M. Flato, and R. E. Moritz 9:30 AM J1.4 What is the Role of the Sensible Heat Flux on the Surface Heat Budget of Multi-Year Sea Ice? (INVITED)   Peter S. Guest, NPS, Monterey, CA; and O. P. G. Persson, E. L. Andreas, and C. W. Fairall
	10:00 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 1 Air-Sea Interactions in High Latitudes: Continued (Joint between the 6th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Organizer: Jennifer A. Francis, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
10:30 AM J1.5 Cloud Forcing of Turbulent and Radiative Surface Energy Budgets on the Arctic Ice Cap: One Year of Data from the SHEBA Experiment (INVITED)   C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Intrieri, M. Shupe, P. Guest, E. L. Andreas, and O. P. G. Persson 11:00 AM J1.6 Measurements of the Surface Energy Budget on Multi-Year Ice at SHEBA   P. Ola G. Persson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, E. L. Andreas, and P. S. Guest 11:15 AM J1.7 Turbulent fluxes and air-ice coupling in the Baltic Air-Sea-Ice Study   Jouko Launiainen, Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki, Finland 11:30 AM J1.8 Atmospheric effects on marginal ice zone sea ice concentrations from passive microwave algorithms   Walter N. Meier, U.S. National Ice Center, Washington, DC; and S. Andersen 11:45 AM J1.9 Atmospheric forcing of the Cosmonaut Sea polynya   David A Bailey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. E. Arbetter and A. H. Lynch
	12:00 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 1 Air-Sea Interactions in High Latitudes: Continued (Joint between the 6th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Organizer: James Pinto, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM J1.10 Atmospheric forcing of the Ross Sea Polynya during summer   David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and A. J. Monaghan, A. N. Rogers, M. L. Van Woert, and K. R. Arrigo 1:45 PM J1.11 Simulating Arctic Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions with a Single Column Model Version of the Community Climate System Model   Richard E. Moritz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. M. Bitz and A. Rivers 2:00 PM J1.12 Evaluation of three low-order boundary layer parameterizations in a new single column thermodynamic model using SHEBA field data   Jeff Mirocha, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Curry 2:15 PM J1.13 Response of high resolution coupled sea ice/ocean model to the assimilation of ice motion fields derived from microwave satellite imagery   Donald R. Stark, NPS, Monterey, CA 2:30 PM J1.14 Improved treatment of surface processes in a dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model   T. E. Arbetter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Curry and A. Alam 2:45 PM J1.15 Evaluation of Surface Bulk Turbulent Flux Models using SHEBA Data   Afshan Alam, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Curry
	3:00 PM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 1 Air-Sea Interactions in High Latitudes: Continued (Joint between the 6th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Organizer: Michael A. Alexander, NOAA-CIRES, Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
J1.16 Depictions of surface moisture fluxes in high northern latitudes in reanalyses and a regional climate model   Richard I. Cullather, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. H. Lynch J1.17 Regional atmosphere-ocean-ice climate modelling over Eastern Canada   Manon Faucher, Université du Québec, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and D. Caya, F. Saucier, and R. Laprise 3:30 PM J1.18 Atmosphere-ocean-ice interaction processes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: numerical study with a coupled model   Philippe Gachon, Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Mont-Joli, PQ, Canada; and F. J. Saucier and R. Laprise 3:45 PM J1.19 The Impact of Arctic Sea Ice Variability on the Atmosphere   Uma S. Bhatt, IARC, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and M. A. Alexander, J. Walsh, M. Timlin, and J. Miller 4:00 PM J1.20 Troposphere response to SST anomalies in the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave in the Southern Ocean   Warren B. White, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. C. Chen 4:15 PM J1.21 Wind-forced currents as a linkage between the Laptev Sea (Siberia) and the Arctic Ocean   Igor A. Dmitrenko, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; and J. A. Hölemann, S. A. Kirillov, S. L. Berezovskaya, H. Eicken, and H. Kassens 4:30 PM J1.22 Variability of Deep Water Formation and Convection in the North Atlantic: A Model Study   Johann H. Jungclaus, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and U. Mikolajewicz and H. Haak
	5:00 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	7:00 PM, Wednesday CONFERENCE BANQUET
Thursday, 17 May 2001
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday Session 3a Sea Ice Properties: Observed and Modeled (Parallel with Session 3B)
Organizer: Ron Lindsay, APL, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
8:30 AM 3a.1 Observations and modeling of structural-optical properties in first-year sea ice (INVITED)   Bonnie Light, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 9:00 AM 3a.2 The role of melt ponds in the evolution of Arctic summer pack ice albedos (INVITED)   Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and D. K. Perovich and T. C. Grenfell 9:30 AM 3a.3 Thermodynamic Ice Model Simulations of SHEBA: Initialization and Albedo Sensitivities   John W. Weatherly, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH 9:45 AM 3a.4 Evaluation of the Year 2000 Arctic Ice Pack Using MODIS   Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, Emergent Information Technologies, Inc., Boulder, CO; and G. R. Scharfen
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday Session 3b Polar Cloud Properties: Observed and Modeled (Parallel with Session 3A)
Organizer: Von P. Walden, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID
8:30 AM 3b.1 Comparison of SHEBA and NSA Cloud Properties for April, May, June and July   Taneil Uttal, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO 8:45 AM 3b.2 A comparison of cloud properties at Barrow and SHEBA during the summer of 1998   James C. Barnard, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. C. Doran, S. Zhong, and C. N. Long 9:00 AM 3b.3 Arctic stratus cloud properties deduced from ground-based measurements at DOE ARM NSA site   Xiquan Dong, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. G. Mace 9:15 AM 3b.4 An Analysis of ice crystal number concentration versus Aerosol Related Parameters and Supersaturation during FIRE.ACE   I. Gultepe, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. A. Isaac 9:30 AM 3b.5 Arctic and Antarctic cloud properties from simultaneous lidar and spectral measurements   Ashwin Mahesh, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. D. Spinhirne and V. P. Walden 9:45 AM 3b.6 Retrieval of cloud optical properties over the South Pole from AVHRR data   Joannes Berque, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Lubin and R. C. J. Somerville
	10:00 AM, Thursday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-11:34 AM, Thursday Session 3a Sea Ice Properties: Observed and Modeled: Continued (Parallel with Session 3B)
Organizer: Marika M. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO
3a.5 A new data set for Arctic sea ice motion, deformation, and thickness from the Radarsat Geophysical Processor System   Harry L. Stern, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. W. Lindsay 10:30 AM 3a.5a Ice Velocity Assimilation, Its Impact on Ice Deformation, and Comparisons with RGPS   Ronald W. Lindsay, APL, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 3a.6 High Resolution Automated Sea Ice Cover Analysis   Robert W. Grumbine, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD 10:49 AM 3a.7 Parallel Climate Model Simulations with a Dynamic-Thermodynamic Ice Thickness Distribution Model   John W. Weatherly, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab., Hanover, NH; and C. M. Bitz and E. C. Hunke 11:04 AM 3a.8 Assimilation of Ice Thickness Information into a Sea Ice Model   Ronald W. Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 3a.9 On the Response of the Arctic Ocean ice thickness distribution to changes in external forcing   Johan Söderkvist, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden; and G. Bjork 11:19 AM 3a.10 Seasonal variation in a transient response of sea-ice thickness to perturbed thermal forcing   Jinro Ukita, NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and D. G. Martinson
	10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday Session 3b Polar Cloud Properties: Observed and Modeled: Continued (Parallel with Session 3A)
Organizer: Keith M. Hines, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH
10:30 AM 3b.7 Development of a daytime polar cloud mask using theoretical models of near-infrared bidirectional reflectance for ARM and CERES   Qing Trepte, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and R. F. Arduini, Y. Chen, S. Sun-Mack, P. Minnis, D. A. Spangenberg, and D. R. Doelling 10:45 AM 3b.8 Development of an automated Arctic cloud mask using clear-sky satellite observations taken over the SHEBA and the ARM NSA Sites   Douglas A. Spangenberg, AS&M, Inc., Hampton, VA; and V. Chakrapani, D. R. Doelling, P. Minnis, and R. F. Arduini 3b.9 The Potential for Estimating Cloud Liquid Water Path over Sea Ice from Airborne Passive Microwave Measurements   Julie A. Haggerty, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Curry 11:00 AM 3b.10 Evaluation of a bulk cloud microphysics model in simulating low-level arctic mixed-phase clouds using a new single column model   Hugh Morison, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Curry 11:15 AM 3b.11 Single-column model studies for improving the representation of Antarctic cloud cover   Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Lubin and R. C. J. Somerville 3b.12 Numerical simulations of the Sensitivity of Mixed-Phase Arctic Stratus to Ice Forming nuclei   Hongli Jiang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton
	12:00 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday Session 4a Upper-Ocean/Sea Ice Exchanges (Parallel with Session 4B)
Organizer: John W. Weatherly, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab., Hanover, NH
1:30 PM 4a.1 The influence of ice-ocean coupling feedbacks on Arctic sea ice variability   Marika M. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO 1:45 PM 4a.2 The Antarctic Dipole and its predictability   Xiaojun Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and D. Martinson 2:00 PM 4a.3 Wind-forced interannual sea ice and water mass changes on the Ross Sea continental shelf   Michael L. Van Woert, National Ice Center, Washington, DC 2:15 PM 4a.4 Early summer heating of the upper ocean in the vicinity of SHEBA   Miles G. McPhee, McPhee Research Company, Naches, WA; and G. A. Maykut, C. M. Bitz, and R. E. Moritz 2:30 PM 4a.5 Modeling the influence of sea ice on solar heating in the upper ocean during the SHEBA experiment   Cecilia M. Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. E. Moritz, M. G. McPhee, and G. A. Maykut 2:45 PM 4a.6 Summertime oceanic fluxes at SHEBA: observations and steady 2-D modelling   Daniel R. Hayes, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. H. Morison and M. G. McPhee
	1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday Session 4b Cloud-Radiation Interactions (Parallel with Session 4A)
Organizer: Jeffrey R. Key, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI
1:30 PM 4b.1 Have model, need forcings. Towards the development of accurate radiative forcing fields for sea ice model experiments (INVITED)   Axel J. Schweiger, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. W. Lindsay 2:00 PM 4b.2 A global climate modeling study of Antarctic cloud radiative processes   Keith M. Hines, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and M. J. Iacono, P. J. Rasch, and D. H. Bromwich 4b.3 A comparison of the NCEP forecast model with SHEBA observations   Qiuqing Zhang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Krueger 2:14 PM 4b.4 Evaluation of GCM radiation codes using SHEBA data   Dana E. Lane, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto and J. A. Curry 2:29 PM 4b.5 Numerical simulations of lead-generated clouds and their effect on large-scale surface fluxes   Michael A. Zulauf, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. K. Krueger 2:44 PM 4b.6 Aggregate-area radiative flux bias corrections over sea ice   Xuanji Wang, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key 2:59 PM 4b.7 The South Pole Atmospheric Radiation and Cloud Lidar Experiment (SPARCLE)   Von P. Walden, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and S. G. Warren, J. D. Spinhirne, A. Heymsfield, R. E. Brandt, P. Rowe, M. S. Town, S. Hudson, and R. M. Jones
	3:00 PM, Thursday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday Session 4a Upper-Ocean/Sea Ice Exchanges: Continued (Parallel with Session 4B)
Organizer: Jinro Ukita, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD
3:30 PM 4a.7 Is ocean heat flux enhanced under rapidly growing ice?   Miles G. McPhee, McPhee Research Company, Naches, WA 3:45 PM 4a.8 The summertime thermohaline evolution of an Arctic lead: Heat budget to the surface layer   C. A. Paulson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and W. S. Pegau 4:00 PM 4a.9 Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing in the Western Arctic: Observations from the SHEBA Drift   Robert Pinkel, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and C. Halle 4:15 PM 4a.10 Momentum exchange and Reynolds stress estimates in an underice boundary layer during SHEBA   Christopher Halle, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. Pinkel
	4:30 PM, Thursday Sessions end for the day
Friday, 18 May 2001
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Friday Session 5a Atmosphere-Surface Exchanges and Forcings (Parallel with Session 5B)
Organizer: Ola P. G. Persson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
8:00 AM 5a.1 Overview of the SHEBA Project (INVITED)   Richard E. Moritz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. M. Bitz and A. Rivers 8:30 AM 5a.2 Evaluation of strategies for conducting atmospheric single column model experiments for SHEBA   James Pinto, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Curry 8:45 AM 5a.3 Evaluation of a single column model using SHEBA data   Afshan Alam, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Curry 9:00 AM 5a.4 The air-ice drag coefficient measured for a year over Arctic sea ice   Edgar L Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and C. W. Fairall, P. S. Guest, and O. P. G. Persson 9:15 AM 5a.5 Applications of the Aerosonde to Long-Term Observations in the Arctic   Judith Curry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Maslanik 9:30 AM 5a.6 Dynamic and thermodynamic characteristics of large-scale atmospheric response to anomalous sea-ice extent in the Sea of Okhotsk   Meiji Honda, IGCR, Tokyo, Japan; and H. Nakamura 9:45 AM 5a.7 Role of sea-ice in the air mass transformation over the southwestern region of the Sea of Okhotsk during cold air outbreaks   Jun Inoue, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; and M. Honda and M. Kawashima
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Friday Session 5b Polar Weather Forecasting (Parallel with Session 5A)
Organizer: Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
8:00 AM 5b.1 The International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Handbook   John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and S. Pendlebury 8:15 AM 5b.2 Numerical weather prediction in East Antarctica   Neil D. Adams, Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre and Bureau of Meteorology, Kent Town, Australia 8:30 AM 5b.3 Unstructured grid Antarctic weather forecast system   David P. Bacon, SAIC, McLean, VA; and N. N. Ahmad, Y. Jin, and R. A. Sarma 8:45 AM 5b.4 The Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System   Jordan G. Powers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, J. F. Bresch, J. J. Cassano, D. H. Bromwich, and A. Cayette 9:00 AM 5b.5 Verification of Polar MM5 Simulations of Antarctic Atmospheric Circulation   Zhichang Guo, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich and J. J. Cassano 9:15 AM 5b.6 A case study of Polar MM5 Usage for Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction in the Antarctic: Upper Boundary Condition   Helin Wei, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich, Y. H. Kuo, and T. K. Wee 9:30 AM 5b.7 High-latitude cloud-drift winds from MODIS   Jeffrey R. Key, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden and D. Santek 9:45 AM 5b.8 Topographic forcing of the Antarctic wind field   Thomas R. Parish, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
	10:00 AM, Friday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Friday Session 5a Atmosphere-Surface Exchanges and Forcings: Continued (Parallel with Session 5B)
Organizer: John A. Beesley, National Ice Center, Washington, DC
10:30 AM 5a.8 Estimation of surface heat flux based on radiosonde observation in the southwestern part of the Sea of Okhotsk under ice-covered condition   Katsushi Iwamoto, Hokkaido University, Sappro, Japan; and Y. Tachibana, M. Honda, and K. Takeuchi 10:45 AM 5a.9 Fall warming events on the Arctic Slope of Alaska   Peter Q. Olsson, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK 11:00 AM 5a.10 Mesoscale simulations of cold season Alaskan atmosphere-surface interactions using the PSU/NCAR MM5 model coupled to the NOAH-LSM land surface model   Jing Zhang, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. S. Tilley 11:15 AM 5a.11 Simulating the climate and surface mass balance of Greenland with a regional climate model   Bradley F. Murphy, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and I. Marsiat and P. Valdes 11:30 AM 5a.12 The use of satellite-derived skin temperature for soil moisture initialization in the Penn State/NCAR mesoscale model (MM5)   Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhang 11:45 AM 5a.13 Thermal impact of soil freezing on the Siberian climate   Gerhard Krinner, LGGE/CNRS, Saint Martin d'Hères, France; and E. Poutou and C. Genthon
	10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Friday Session 5b Polar Weather Forecasting: Continued (Parallel with Session 5A)
Organizer: John Cassano, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
5b.9 Use of a neural network for a classification of wind regimes in the Central Victoria Land and their relative coupling with the synoptic description provided by the ECMWF model   Paolo Grigioni, ENEA, Roma, Italy; and P. F. Coppola, A. Pellegrini, and M. Pietrella 10:30 AM 5b.10 Katabatic winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica   Thomas H. Nylen, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and A. G. Fountain and P. T. Doran 10:45 AM 5b.11 A simulation of an extreme katabatic wind event   Hubert Gallée, Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Grenoble, France; and G. Wendler and O. Brasseur 11:00 AM 5b.12 A ceiling and visibility prediction system suitable for Antarctic flight operations   David A. Braaten, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. F. Tucker 11:15 AM 5b.13 A mesoscale model for operative forecast according to ICAO requirement for air navigation: simulation in the Area of Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica   F. Fattori Speranza, National Program Research Antarctica ENEA, Roma, Italy; and P. Coppola, H. Gallée, P. Grigioni, and A. Pellegrini 11:30 AM 5b.14 On the Performance of the AFWA version of the PSU/NCAR MM5 model for short-range forecasting in Alaska, the Western Arctic and North Pacific   Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Long, C. Weatherby, and E. L'Herault 11:45 AM 5b.15 Climatology and Forecasting Hazaradous Weather in Canada's Northwest Territories and Nunavut   Steve Ricketts, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. Hudson 12:00 PM 5b.16 Numerical simulation of an Arctic ground blizzard   Stephen J. Déry, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and M. K. Yau
	12:30 PM, Friday Conference Ends

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