Past IACS events
Research Urgencies in the Polar Regions
and their links to the ICSU Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability
23-24 September 2011, Siena, Italy
IUGG General Assembly Melbourne, Australia, 28 June - 7 July 2011
IUGG 2011 Scientific Program overview oral poster
IACS Scientific Sessions overview schedule
Past events with IACS (ICSI/UCCS) involvement
Fifth International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, 12-16 September 2011, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Glacier Hazards, Permafrost Hazards and GLOFs in Mountain Areas: Processes, Assessment, Prevention, Mitigation, 10–13 November 2009, Vienna, Austria
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IAHS 8th Scientific Assembly and 37th IAH Congress, Hyderabad, India, September 6-12, 2009.
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IACS/IAMAS/IAPSO Joint Assembly 2009, Our Warming Planet, July 19-29, 2009, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Workshop on mass balance measurements and modelling 26-28 March 2008, Skeikampen Norway.
Proceedings published in Annals of Glaciology 50.
IUGG General Assembly, Perugia, Italy, July, 2-13, 2007
Proceedings published in Annals of Glaciology 48.
International Symposium on Cryospheric Indicators of Global Climate Change
A joint WCRP–CliC/IGS/UCCS Symposium
Cambridge, England, 21–25 August 2006
Proceedings published in Annals of Glaciology 46.
IAMAS 9th Scientific Assembly Beijing, China, 2–11 Aug. 2005.
J!: Modelling Forest Snow Processes.
Intercepted snow on forest canopies has a large exposed area for exchanges of mass and energy with the atmosphere. Snow on the ground beneath a forest canopy, compared with snow in open areas, is sheltered from wind and solar radiation, but receives increased longwave radiation from the canopy. Forests thus influence the timing and quantity of runoff from snowmelt, and changes in forest cover, whether managed or in response to changing climates, modify this influence. Contributions are invited on how snow processes can be represented in large-scale atmospheric and hydrological models, and on how such process models perform in composition with observations
Principal Convenor.
Richard Essery, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom.
J2: Glacier mass balance and its coupling to regional to hemispheric circulation.
Glacier mass balance measurements constitute an important contribution to our understanding of climate change. From a climatological perspective, glacier mass balance constitutes a point measurement in relation to large-scale atmospheric climate factors. However, local factors can be important. For example, snow accumulation is governed by a combination of direct snowfall and wind transport. To extract the mesoscale circulation pattern from the mass balance data, local and mesoscale influences need to be distinguished. The aim of this workshop is to examine how mass balance data can be used to infer mesoscale circulation patterns. If successful, we can use GCM’s to predict future glacier changes and past glacier extents. This workshop follows on two previous ICSI workshops on glacier mass balance (Melbourne, 1997; Tarfala, 1998).
Principal Convenor:
Peter Jansson, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quarternary Geology, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; Tel: +46-8-16 48 15; Fax: +46-8-16 48 18; peter.jansson@natgeo.su.se
J3: Mountain Snow and Ice Cover (ICSI, IAMAS)
In many parts of the world mountain snow and ice covers represent (up to now) continuously renewed water reservoirs, but also present periodical threats to human safety. The importance of these water reservoirs increases even more in a warming climate, mainly due to large-scale interactions with air flow and sea water circulations. This symposium is intended to promote the exchange of knowledge between snow/ice cover modellers and researchers dealing with climate modelling. Achieving proper representations of the boundary conditions between snow/ice and atmosphere will be a major topic.
Conveners:
Charles Fierz, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Avalanche Warning and Risk Management, Flüelastrasse 11, CH-7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland; Tel: +41 81 417 0165; Fax: +41 81 417 0110; fierz@slf.ch
Peter Jansson, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quarternary Geology, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; Tel: +46-8-16 48 15; Fax: +46-8-16 48 18; peter.jansson@natgeo.su.se
Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 23-27 August 2005
Sponsor:
International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
Co-sponsors:
IUGG Commission for the Cryospheric Sciences (UCCS)
International Glaciological Society (IGS)
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
Antarctic Clmate Evolution (ACE)
Scientific Commission on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
British Geological Survey (BGS)
VIIth IAHS Scientific Assembly Foz de Iguassu (Argentina–Brazil–Paraguay), 4–9 April 2005
S#5 SYMPOSIUM on the Contribution from Glaciers and Snow Cover to Mountain Runoff in Different Climate regimes.
Convenor: Regine Hock
W#5 WORKSHOP on Andean Glaciology
IUGG General Assembly, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003
Symposium on Mass Balance of Andean Glaciers, Valdivia, Chile, 2003
World water Forum 3, Kyoto, Japan, March 2003. Keynote address in session: Water Resources Management in Mountainous Areas
IAMAS General Assembly, Innsbruck, Austria, 10-18 July 2001
A New Hydrology for a Thirsty Planet - 6th Scientific Assembly of the IAHS, Maastricht, NL, July 18 - 27, 2001
Workshop 1: Flood forecasting with reference to global change. ICSI cooperating commission
Workshop 4: High Mountain Regions: Hydrological and cryospheric processes and models and the variability of available water resources. (In anticipation of the "Year of the Mountains 2002"). ICSI leading commission
European Geophysical Society XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, 25-29 April 2000
OA36 Water balance components of high mountain basins. ICSI cooperating
Further sessions which are related to glaciology:
OA8 Sea-level and sea-ice in the past, present and in the future
OA20 Surface fluxes over land and ocean - Energy exchange over snow and glaciers
OA32 Climate variability - Climate of the polar regions
OA34 Study of past climates - Variability at Milankovitch time scales
OA37 Ice and permafrost drilling in high mountains
OA38 Flow dynamics and length changes of alpine glaciers
OA39 Ice core climate information on the past 10 millennia
OA40 Changes in the mass balance of the cryosphere over the next millennium
Glaciers of the Southern Hemisphere
Workshop on Methods of Mass Balance Measurements and Modelling, Tarfala, Sweden, 10-12 August 1998
Other conferences related to the topic:
International Symposium on "High Mountain Lakes and Streams - Indicators of a changing world", Innsbruck, Austria, 4-8 September 2000