Delivered-To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov From: "Ejo Schrama" To: Subject: [IGSMAIL-4783]: Reminder: session on Sea level change (G3) at the EGU in Nice 25-30 April 2004 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:17:55 +0100 Message-ID: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 08 Jan 10:32:36 PST 2004 Message Number 4783 ****************************************************************************** Author: Ernst Schrama Dear colleagues With this e-mail I would like to bring under attention that there is a session on Sea Level Change at the EGU in Nice. We seek contributions that focus on the combination of observation and modeling the present day sea level change, more details can be found in the session description below. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Jan 11 2004. Best regards, Ernst Schrama -------------------------------------------------------------------- EGU 1st General Assembly -- Nice, France, 25-30 April 2004 http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu04/ Convenors: Steve Nerem Co-Convenor: Ernst Schrama G3 Present-day sea level change; observations and causes; global, regional and coastal (co-sponsored by CL, CR, GD, & OS) The global sea level is affected by a number of factors and processes on different temporal and spatial scales; a quantification of its changes is therefore a very complex task. However, in the recent past, a number of new and improved techniques have evolved and applied to the problem, notably altimetry, GPS, tide gauges, and satellite gravimetry. Moreover, a major step forward has been achieved in modeling the dynamics of the oceans, ice sheets, continental water and the solid Earth. In particular, the combination of observations and models, the assimilation of data into models, and the calibration of observations should allow one to obtain better constraints on the rate of sea level change. Both the quantification of single processes, e.g. thermal expansion of the oceans, mass balance of ice sheets and mountain glaciers, GIA predictions, as well as investigations on the global water and energy budget should be addressed. Presentations are further solicited on the use of recent satellite missions (e.g. ENVISAT, JASON-1, CHAMP, GRACE, ICESAT), tide gauge records in combination with GPS, and all types of ocean-, ice- and Earth-models developed to quantify sea level change. The session is encouraging scientists from multiple disciplines to merge their knowledge to produce advances in interdisciplinary sea level research. -- Ernst J.O. (Ejo) Schrama, TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, DEOS, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands, PGPkey: 0x0EDD917F (Please keep this line in replies)