Deadline Reminder
Special Session C 05: High Latitude Hydrology
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2005 Fall Meeting
5-9 December 2005
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 8 September 2005
Abstracts can be submitted online at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/
High latitude hydrology is going through a period of transition:
permafrost is warming and thawing, runoff and precipitation appear to be
changing, spatial coverage of seasonal snow is shrinking, sea ice is
both thinning and extent dwindling, and vegetation is changing. The
hydrologic cycle is an integral component of the climate system, both
moderating and driving changes in meteorology, coastal processes, and
terrestrial and aquatic ecology (freshwater and marine). High latitude
regions also represent the cooling one-half of Earth's climatic engine.
This session is soliciting hydrologic contributions (observations,
modeling, and remote sensing) where a cryospheric component (snow, ice,
glaciers, permafrost, seasonal frost, etc.) influences the hydrologic
cycle.
Organizers: Douglas Kane and Daqing Yang, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Abstracts must be submitted electronically on the AGU website
(http://www.agu.org/) by Thursday, 8 September 2005.