Conferences of interest to CAP/CCCC Last update: 14 January 2009
These upcoming conferences concern climate and climate change issues of interest to California Applications Program (CAP) and California Climate Change Center (CCCC) participants.
AMS Annual Meeting AMS 89th Annual Meeting, 11-15 January 2009, Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
11-15 January, 2009
Phoenix, ArizonaAbstarct Deadlines as early as 1 August 2008
The theme for the 2009 AMS Annual Meeting is "Urban Weather and Climate: Now and the Future." The relevance and timeliness of the urban theme cannot be overemphasized. Recent events - Hurricane Katrina; urban floods in Europe and China; heat waves in London, Paris and Chicago; homeland security concerns and industrial chemical accidents; to name a few - point out the vulnerability of urban populations to high-impact weather of all types. In the U.S. today, approximately two-thirds of the population live in cities that occupy less than two percent of the U.S. land mass. This past year, the global population may have reached a tipping point with the world's urban population equaling its rural population; by 2030, the urban population fraction is predicted to surpass 60% globally and exceed 82% in the more developed countries. Most of the urban population growth results from migration from the rural areas as birth rates tend to decline in the urban areas. The nexus of urbanization and population growth, coupled with anthropogenic urban weather influences and global climate changes, portend an impending 'perfect storm' for the urban environment.The 2009 Annual Meeting aims to highlight advances and challenges in urban-related science, applications, observations, modeling and operations. The specialty conferences, symposia and special sessions that comprise the annual meeting will focus attention on six cross-cutting urban themes: (a) measurement systems and networks; (b) modeling and forecasting; (c) observations and studies of high-impact weather; (d) geographic influences on urban weather and climate; (e) human and environmental impacts; and (f) implications of climate change and population growth. "High-impact" weather is considered in its broadest sense, and includes severe weather, high wind events, precipitation, floods, icing, lightning, poor visibility, adverse air quality, and temperature extremes.
The meeting will also feature workshops and short courses, numerous town hall meetings, the Sunday WeatherFest, a Monday Presidential Policy Forum on the role of weather and climate in urban affairs, and two special named symposia honoring Prof. Timothy Oke and the late Dr. Tony Hollingsworth. For additional information on the organization of the 89th AMS Annual Meeting, please contact meeting co-chairpersons Sue Grimmond, King's College London (Sue.Grimmond@kcl.ac.uk) or Rita Roberts, National Center for Atmospheric Research (rroberts@ucar.edu).
More information can be found at: http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/index.html
PACLIM 2009
19-22 April 2009
Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CaliforniaThe theme for PACLIM 2009 is "Climate Variability of the Eastern North Pacific and Western North America".Additional information about the conference along forms for registration, housing and abstract submission can be obtained from
Scott W. Starratt
Volcano Hazards Team, MS 910
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
sstarrat@usgs.govAbstract submission deadline is 15 January 2009
2009 Western Snow Conference
20-23 April 2009
Canmore, AlbertaThe theme for the 2009 Western Snow Conference is "What's Normal? Snow -- Past, Present and the Future". The Western Snow Conference is an annual tradition which started in 1932 as an international forum for individuals and organizations to share scientific, management and socio-political information on snow and runoff. The principal aim of the Western Snow Conference is to advance snow and hydrological sciences.Some topics to consider for submission of papers are Snow and Ecology; Snow: Past, Present and Future; Validation of Snow Studies; and Climatology of Snow. Please try to construct your paper to fit into one of these topics if possible. A call for papers will go out in the fall of 2008 and the submission deadline will be early in January 2009.
A short course and panel discussion is being planned for Monday April 20 titled "30-Year Normals: Know Your Normals". Many agencies use 30-year normals on a daily basis for comparison of current conditions. This will provide a forum to discuss origination, history, usage by states and provinces, future use in changing climatic conditions, implementation schedule of new normals, and more.
A Technical Tour is scheduled for Thursday, April 23 to travel north and view the Columbia Ice Fields. This will be an all day bus trip and a great opportunity to view the receding glaciers that so many have been studying and talking about.
Additional information about the conference along with lodging information and the Call for Papers will be posted on the Western Snow Conference web page:
http://www.westernsnowconference.org/More information please contact General Chair Bruce McGurk BMcGurk@sfwater.org.