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Information - AS2.04 Boundary Layers in High Latitudes: Observations and Modeling (Colisted in CR and CL)
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Event Information |
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Boundary layers in high latitudes, including those over sea ice and the high terrain of Greenland and Antarctica, present major challenges for weather and climate models including the production of realistic reanalyses of past climate. In addition, a number of applications ranging from documenting “seeing conditions” for astronomical observatories to improving parameterizations in boundary layer models for atmosphere-ice chemical interactions can benefit from research in the high latitudes. This session will focus on both observational studies and the translation of new observational insights and parameterizations into the development and verification of weather, climate and boundary layer models. With recent evidence of the role of the surface energy budget on reductions in Arctic sea ice, the interplay of clouds, radiation, and surface processes in the high latitudes presents important scientific challenges. Similarly, with increasing interest in observations of coastal change, particularly in the Arctic, papers are also encouraged in reporting on the observation and analysis of the coastal boundary layer in the presence of ocean-ice-land-terrain contrasts. We expect to coordinate this session with the sessions in the Cryospheric Program: ‘Snow dynamics and snow-atmosphere exchange over Greenland and Antarctica’ and 'Mass and energy balance of snow and ice.'
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