UK Sea Ice Meeting at UCL

Location

The sea ice meeting will take place in the Chadwick Lecture Theatre in the basement of the Chadwick Building on the main UCL campus in Gower Street, London on Monday 22 Sept 2003. We will have a buffet lunch at "The Grafton Arms". See maps.

Timetable

10.00
Coffee for early arrivals (plus time to put up posters)
     
10.20
Jeff Ridley & Danny Feltham Welcome and opening remarks
10.30
Andrew Willmott (Maths, Keele) "A 2-dimensional model for the closing of a coastal polynya"
10.50
Grae Worster (DAMTP, Cambridge) "Brine drainage from sea ice"
11.10
Danny Feltham (CPOM, UCL) "Overview of sea ice model development"
   
11.30
Coffee + posters
     
12.00
Seymour Laxon (CPOM, UCL) "Observations of sea ice thickness variability from space"
12.20
Alison McLaren (Met Office) "Sea ice representation in HadGEM1"
12.40
Mike Bell (Met Office) "A sea ice data assimilation project"
   
13.00
Lunch + posters
     
14.30
Yevgeny Aksenov (SOC) "Coupling of a sea ice model to a high-resolution global ocean model"
14.50
Edward Hanna (Earth Sciences, Plymouth) "Proposed study linking in changes of Arctic sea-ice with Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance"
15.10
John Turner (BAS) "Exceptional sea ice in the Weddell Sea during the austral summer of 2001/02"
15.30
Mark Brandon (Earth Sciences, OU) "Antarctic sea ice and iceberg measurements using Autosub"
15.50
Peter Wadhams (DAMTP, DML) "Current sea ice research at SAMS"
   
16.10
Coffee + posters
   
16.30
Discussion: Future of sea ice group meeting

Organisation

For any queries regarding the UCL meeting, contact Danny Feltham, dlf@cpom.ucl.ac.uk, Tel. 020 7679 3017