EMIC WORKSHOP, 20-21 February, 2006, Melbourne
A Workshop On Earth System Models Of Intermediate Complexity
Monday 20th & Tuesday 21st
February 2006
at the Bureau of Meteorology Research
Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
To date, much of the focus of palaeoclimate research has been on the northern hemisphere where it has been assumed that variation in ice sheets of the North Atlantic region has been the major driver of global climate change. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that the southern hemisphere, and critical land areas in particular, have demonstrated complex responses to northern hemisphere forcing as well as to regional insolation variation, and that the tropics, Antarctica and southern hemisphere systems, such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, may even explain or provide the triggers for climate change on a global scale.
Australia is a key continent in that its gradual but continued movement may have resulted in major alteration of climatic and oceanic circulation systems with major threshold influences in the recent past. The impact on Australia itself appears to have been the creation of a long-term trend towards greater aridity and climatic variability that has major consequences for future environmental planning within the region.
To support Australian research activities in this area, the Australian Research Council, with support from the National Committee for Earth System Science and the Australian Greenhouse Office, has funded a workshop on Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC).
Contact person: Petteri Uotila, Monash University. Participation is free and open.
If you are interested in keeping appraised as plans develop, or in submitting a title and abstract for a presentation, please email your interest to Petteri Uotila, Monash University. Participation is free and open. Confirmed speakers include:
Prof. Lawrence Mysak (McGill University)
Prof. Klaus Dethloff (Alfred-Wegener Institute)
Prof. Matthew England (The University of New South Wales)
Dr David Etheridge (CSIRO)
Dr Joëlle Gergis (The University of New South Wales)
Dr Katherine Harle (CSIRO)
Dr Pandora Hope (BMRC)
Prof. Peter
Kershaw (Monash University)
Dr Andrew Marshall (Monash
University)
Dr Neville Nicholls (Monash University)
Mr Steven Phipps (University of Tasmania)
Prof.
Ian Simmonds (University of Melbourne)
Dr Jozef Syktus
(Department of Natural Resources & Mines, Queensland)
Dr Richard Wardle (Monash University)