A new study helps clarify how past and future coastal sea level changes are related to local winds and large-scale ocean circulation.
Held February 11-16, the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting will bring together ocean researchers and collaborators in Portland, Oregon. In preparation for the meeting, the US CLIVAR Project Office has compiled a condensed list of sessions that are relevant to the community and organized by Panels, Working Groups, and community members. The list of sessions is not intended to be exhaustive but to help digest the collection of the hundreds of sessions and events.
The 2017 summer edition of Variations, with guest editor Sonya Legg (Princeton U.), is themed: "Polar ocean and sea ice interactions." This edition focuses on describing and understanding the interactions between ocean circulation and sea ice, in addition to highlighting new observational and modeling opportunities.
On February 17-18, US CLIVAR will host a workshop to create a shared understanding of ocean mesoscale eddy interactions with the atmosphere. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
On the fifth day, conference participants — filled with four days of fascinating, relevant, and timely discussions — were able to hear about the latest modeling efforts and different scenarios for the future.
The conference rolled into the fourth day wrapping up the contemporary sea level presentations and beginning to address future projections. Participants also heard about the evolving requirements of integrated sea level observations for regional and local decision making.
Halfway through the conference, day three brought a series of presentations on the risk, adaptation strategies, and stakeholder needs for coastal zone management.
The second day of the conference was dedicated to presentations on contemporary sea level change, ranging from the role of ocean heat content to satellite missions to drivers of the variability of extreme sea levels.
The Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts conference kicked-off on June 10, starting with past sea level rise and working towards understanding the future. Day 1 conference highlights feature keynote speakers, overview talks, and three sessions on paleo sea level data and modeling, millennial-scale ice sheet and sea level interactions, and contemporary contributions from ice sheets and glaciers.
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