Arctic Terrestrial Modelling Workshop

Dates: 14-15 September 2017 (Thu/Fri)

Venue: St Anne's College - University of Oxford

Sponsors: Canadian Network for Regional Climate and Weather Processes (CNRCWP) – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Arctic (NGEE-Arctic).

Objectives: This workshop will bring together senior and early career scientists to gain insight into the rapidly changing pan-Arctic land surface and boundary layer. The workshop will review current representation of Arctic ecosystem, carbon, water and energy balance processes in the land model component of Earth System Models, including land-atmosphere interactions, and the next steps to address knowledge gaps. The workshop will also focus on developing a pan-Arctic land model assessment that includes a broader range of models, and engage the data community to provide new validation products for the Arctic and sub-Arctic.

Core focus:
*Representation of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems in models
*Role of observations: calibration, validation, assimilation
*Water, nitrogen, carbon, and energy dynamics
*Land-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks across spatial and temporal scales
*Pan-Arctic land model assessment
*Arctic boundary layer processes
*Extreme/disturbance events
*Knowledge gaps

Registration: Fill the online form available at http://www.cnrcwp.uqam.ca/arctemw/

Deadline for abstract submission and registration: 17 February 2017

Scientific Organizing Committee:
Laxmi Sushama (UQAM), Stan Wullschleger (ORNL), Cathy Wilson (LANL), Eleanor Blyth (NERC), Benjamin Smith (Lund University), David Lawrence (NCAR), Gerhard Krinner (CNRS), Patrick Samuelsson (SMHI), Paul Miller (Lund University), Joe Melton (ECCC), Charles Miller (JPL)

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