Workshop on Ice Sheet/Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions in Greenland

提供资金部分支助在格陵兰举办一次关于冰盖/海洋/大气相互作用的国际跨学科讲习班。讲习班的核心资金已经从美国气候变化和气候变化研究中心获得。研讨会的目的是汇集来自海洋学、冰川学、气象学和气候学界的观测者、建模者和理论家，讨论改进观测的挑战和要求，并对这一问题进行理解和建模。未来的与会者包括由美国主要机构（NASA，NSF，NOAA，DoE，ONR）资助的美国科学家和国际专家，他们正在研究格陵兰岛，邻近冰盖，类似的北极环境（特别是阿拉斯加的冰川）和周围海洋（特别是北欧海洋和亚极地北大西洋）的过程。预计会议的主要成果是：1.促进科学，改进协调，以及国家和国际项目的协同作用。为所有人，特别是学生和职业科学家建立跨学科的互动和网络.一份文件描述了一套优先的建议，以取得进展，这一紧迫和复杂的跨学科的问题，包括一个长期的格陵兰岛观测系统的计划。冰盖海洋大气相互作用在格陵兰岛代表一个新的研究前沿，是至关重要的了解冰盖？的演变，它的质量平衡，以及对全球海平面上升的贡献。最近在格陵兰观测到的变化表明，这些过程在十年至百年气候变化的背景下是重要的，这一时间尺度与主要基础设施的规划和设计有关。

Funds are provided in partial support of an international, interdisciplinary Workshop on Ice Sheet/Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions in Greenland. Core funding of the workshop from U.S. CLIVAR has already been secured. The objective of the workshop is to bring together observationalists, modelers and theoreticians from the oceanographic, glaciological, meteorological and climate communities to discuss the challenges and requirements for improving observations, and process understanding and modeling of this problem. The prospective attendees include U.S. scientists, funded by major US agencies (NASA, NSF, NOAA, DoE, ONR), and international experts, who are studying processes in Greenland, adjacent ice caps, similar Arctic environments (especially Alaskan tidewater glaciers), and surrounding seas (especially Nordic Seas and subpolar North Atlantic). The major meeting outcomes are envisioned to be:1. Advancement of the science, improved coordination, and synergy of national and international projects.2. Interaction and network building across disciplines for all and especially students andearly career scientists.3. A document describing a prioritized set of recommendations to make progress on this urgent and complex interdisciplinary problem, including a plan for a long-term Greenland observing system.Ice sheet-ocean-atmosphere interactions in Greenland represent a new research frontier that is critical to understanding the ice sheet?s evolution, its mass balance, and contributions to global sea level rise. Recent observed changes in Greenland show that these processes are important in the context of decadal-to-centennial climate variability - time scales relevant to major infrastructure planning and design.