The workshop on abrupt climate change is organized within the framework of the Ice2Ice and ANA-Clim projects.

The workshop will take place on October 3-5, 2016 in Bergen (Lecture Room, Uni Research Health, Nygårdsporten, Nygårdsgaten 112).  We aim to start Monday morning facilitating that Copenhagen based people may join by taking either SAS or Norwegian departing 0800 and 0820 respectively and end Wednesday afternoon. We will organize a workshop dinner on Tuesday evening.

Continental, marine and polar paleoclimate records preserve abundant evidence of “Dansgaard-Oeshger” (DO) events, a series of abrupt climate events occurring during the last glacial period, with different expressions over the entire globe. Various paradigms have been proposed to explain their existence and evolution, including mechanisms involving rapid changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Arctic sea-ice cover, continental ice sheets, and ice shelves. Still, aspects of these abrupt climate changes remain poorly understood.

The objectives of this workshop are:

– to familiarize the Ice2Ice community with this manifestation of millennial scale climate variability as recorded in the various paleoclimatic archives and in terms of existing mechanisms proposed to explain them

– to discuss, in light of new high resolution datasets, the spatial and temporal signature of climate and environmental changes associated with the DO events

– to discuss the use of existing and new model simulations to constrain possible mechanisms and reject hypotheses which do not satisfy the observations

Invited speakers (with additions to be made as confirmations are received): Jorge Alvarez-Solas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Steven Barker (Cardiff University), David Battisti (University of Washington), Franck Bassinot from LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, France)

Please send your expression of interest by filling this form (click here for link) by 30.7. There will be limited space available. In the eventuality that we need to proceed to a selection process for participation, we kindly ask you to include in your expression of interest a short description of your research experience as it relates to the workshop focus and of the work you would like to present.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Accommodation info: 

We have reserved 20 rooms at Scandic Ørnen.

This hotel is located just up the street from where the meeting will be held.

5 of these rooms are reserved from October 2-6 (4 nights) and the rest are reserved October 3-5.

The price of the room is NOK 1312,- per night including breakfast, not including the taxes.

These rooms are only being held until September 15. After this date, you will have to find your own hotel in Bergen.

You can book by e-mail at meeting.ornen@scandichotels.com or call the hotel directly at +47 55 37 50 00. Give the order reference BUNI021016.

More information about this hotel can be found here.

Contacts:

Emilie Capron, capron@nbi.ku.dk

Kerim Nisancioglu, kerim@bjerknes.uib.no

Trond Dokken, trond.dokken@uni.no

Camille Li, camille@uib.no

Admin: Erik Sandquist, erik.sandquist@uni.no