recent climate change workshops – discussion of results

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Recent Climate Change Workshops – Discussion of results

Climate workshops and panels

ACSYS/CliC Workshop (November, 2003): - abstracts are available at:

http://acsys.npolar.no/meetings/final/abstracts/abstracts.php- advances in climatic models, sea ice, oceanography, coupled….- evidences both for long-term variations, changes and variations- potencial external forcing for variations in sea ice coverCLIMAR-II (November, 2003): - abstracts are available at:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/coads/climar2/ - observations and their assimilation in forecasting, reanalysis and climatic

modelsOther: IPCC……

The three Working Groups of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published their Summaries for Policy-makers early in the year 2001. The four centre pages of this issue of World Climate News provide highlights from these documents.

Implications and possibilities…

1) Implications for IICWG participants- Input for user requirements in climatic studies- …….

2) Possibilities for IICWG cooperation in Research in the high Arctic:- Cooperation within forthcoming IPY- ICEMON, Northern View- Cooperation within NP drifting stations activities