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JC01 Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (IACS, IAHS)
Convener(s): Liss Andreassen (Norway, IACS)Co-Convener(s): Stephan Paul (Germany, IACS), Melody Sandells (UK, IAHS), McKenzie Skiles (USA, IAHS)
Description
The number of aerial and satellite remote sensing platforms and sensors have grown significantly. New sensors open possibilities of using dense time series for exploring the cryosphere and to combine multiple data sources and processing large datasets. In this symposium we welcome presentations of remote sensing of all parts of the cryosphere including seasonal snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets and extra-terrestrial glaciology. Contributions that integrate remote sensing and field-based observations to investigate spatial and temporal changes in cold regions are encouraged as well as novel use of remote sensing data to understand processes or support modelling of the cryosphere.
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JC02 Declining Glacier, Snow Cover and Permafrost and Their Impacts on Downstream Hydrology (IACS, IAHS, IAG)
Convener(s): Regine Hock (Norway, IACS)Co-Convener(s): Wei Feng (China, IAG), James McPhee (Chile/USA, IAHS), Anna-Marie Jörss (IAHS, Germany)
Description
With ongoing climate change, significant changes in the hydrological regime and biogeochemical properties of streams are expected in catchments where glaciers, permafrost or snow cover exist. This symposium focuses on new insights into relevant processes, new observational evidence of ongoing changes, as well as advances in our ability to model future runoff in ice and snow-covered basins on all scales from the local to the global scale. Topics include but are not limited to (a) the impacts of glacier, permafrost and snow cover changes on runoff amounts and seasonality, physical and biogeochemical properties of stream water, and hydrological pathways, (b) trends in river runoff in glacier-, permafrost- and snow-affected catchments and their causes, and (c) snow-permafrost-glacier-climate-runoff feedbacks and related physical processes, including the effects of black carbon/aerosols and changing atmospheric drivers on melt runoff and geophysical risks.
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JC03 Coupling Processes Between the Atmospheric Boundary-Layer and Snow - Ice Surfaces: Modelling at Convection and Snowdrift-Permitting Scales (IACS, IAHS, IAMAS)
Convener(s): Richard Essery (UK,IACS)Co-Convener(s): Vincent Vionnet (Canada, IACS), Tobias Jonas (Switzerland, IAHS), Rebecca Mott (Switzerland, IAMAS)
Description
This symposium addresses fundamental exchange mechanisms of mass and energy between the cryosphere and the atmospheric boundary layer in snow and ice covered regions. The interaction between the near-surface atmosphere and the cryosphere can lead to significant spatial and temporal variations of momentum, mass and energy exchanges as well as complex atmospheric flow patterns modulated by complexities in topography. These processes strongly affect the evolution of seasonal snow cover, permafrost and glaciers, and drive snow and ice hydrology. Moves towards convection-permitting scales in numerical weather prediction have also brought benefits for resolving atmospheric flows and precipitation in mountainous topography, but coupled modelling at smaller “snowdrift-permitting” scales for which there can be significant redistribution of snow between model grid cells has not yet been so widely investigated. We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics: modelling of turbulent fluxes to snow and ice surfaces in stable boundary layers; advection of energy to snow cover and glaciers, and impacts on snow and ice melt; orographically-induced precipitation and preferential deposition of snowfall; wind-induced snow transport and associated sublimation. Studies in level and mountainous terrains are welcome. We particularly encourage abstracts that propose advances in modelling techniques to represent the physics of coupling the atmospheric boundary layer to snow and ice surfaces, and in applications of high-resolution snow and ice mass balance modelling.
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JC04 Atmospheric Circulations and Surface Mass Balance of Ice Sheets (IACS, IAMAS)
Convener(s): Charles Amory (France, IACS)Co-Convener(s): Christoph Kittel (Belgium, IACS), Anais Orsi (Canada, IACS), Irina Gorodetskaya (Portugal, IAMAS)
Description
Atmospheric circulations in high latitudes strongly influence the surface mass and energy balances of ice sheets through transport of heat, moisture and momentum. While our ability to simulate their occurrences is improving, uncertainties persist in their dynamical responses to climate change, linkages with multi-scale climate variability, and climatological impacts over ice sheets. Advancing our knowledge of the underlying dynamics is therefore crucial for reliable climate projections over ice sheets and for improved interpretations of ice core paleoclimate records. The objective of this session is to advance our understanding of atmospheric circulations in high-latitude regions and to analyse their impacts in past, present, and future climates. We welcome theoretical, observational and modeling contributions on atmospheric circulations such as blocking, atmospheric rivers, foehn and katabatic flows and their linkages to weather and climate extremes and surface mass balance of ice sheets.
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JC05 Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Interactions: Physical and Chemical Processes (IACS, IAMAS, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Takenobu Toyota (Japan, IACS), Xin Yang (UK, IAMAS)Co-Convener(s): Kim Strong (Canada, IAMAS), David Tarasick (Canada, IAMAS), William Perrie (Canada, IAPSO)
Description
The rapid change of polar climate over the past several decades has significantly affected the atmosphere-ocean-sea ice (AOI) interface and thereby interactions such as the exchanges of energy and chemical compounds through physical and chemical processes. These processes are linked together via chemical compound and particle exchanges at air-snow interfaces, snow processes, polynya formation, sea-ice production and deep-water formation. AOI interactions can be triggered also by short-term synoptic and mesoscale weather phenomena such as cold air outbreaks, katabatic winds, and polar lows. Thus, changes in polar weather and meteorology may influence the natural processes involved in polar atmospheric chemistry. However, the representation of these physical and chemical processes and interactions at different spatial and temporal scales remains a major challenge for current weather and climate models. This symposium aims to brings together researchers working in the areas of atmospheric chemistry (Part I) and physics (Part II) to demonstrate their latest findings, highlight gaps in our understanding of the physical and chemical aspects of polar climate and the polar surface boundary layer, and inspire further investigation and collaboration. Part I focuses on but is not limited to: lower tropospheric oxidizing capacity; ozone; reactive halogens and nitrogen; mercury; snow chemistry on sea ice, tundra and ice sheets; sea salt aerosol from blowing snow; and particulate chemistry. Part II focuses on but is not limited to: atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers, sea ice and snow-cover processes as well as global change related to the marine Arctic and Antarctic. Further focus is on snow cover modelling, ablation and accumulation on sea ice; and processes or parameterizations of physical and chemical exchange, and transport, including the influence of sub-mesoscale ocean dynamics, where observational challenges can be addressed. Contributions dealing with theoretical and observational studies, remote sensing, or numerical modelling are welcome.
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JC06 Mountain Cryosphere Hazards (IACS, IAVCEI, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Holger Frey (Switzerland, IACS/GAPHAZ)Co-Convener(s): Michele Koppes (Canada, IACS/GAPHAZ), Mylene Jacquemart (Switzerland, IACS/GAPHAZ), Fabian Walter (Switzerland, IASPEI), Roberto Sulpizio (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
High mountains across the globe have been undergoing significant changes in natural hazards over the last few decades. Rapid warming has caused changes in the mountain cryosphere at unprecedented rates, affecting geomorphic processes beyond the ice, with significant impacts on landscapes and ecosystems. Cryospheric hazards are also undergoing rapid changes in mountains worldwide, often beyond historical precedence. Risks associated with all types of mass movements in mountain regions are increasing due to changes in the magnitude and frequency of hazards and increasing socio-economic development, which affects both exposure to and vulnerability of people and infrastructure. In this session, we invite contributions on all forms of hazards and risks from the mountain cryosphere, including avalanches, landslides, lake outbursts, volcano-ice interactions, earthquakes, permafrost thaw, debris flows, cascading process-chains, and impacts on mountain communities. We welcome case studies; theoretical and conceptual process models; mapping and modelling past, present and future hazards and risks; as well as aspects of disaster risk reduction and management. Contributions that also address the socio-economic drivers of risks are encouraged.
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IAG
JG01 Interactions of the Solid Earth With Ice Sheets and Sea Level (IAG, IACS, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Rebekka Steffen (Sweden, IAG/IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Bert Wouters (Netherlands, IACS), Natalya Gomez (Canada, IAG/IACS), Lambert Caron (US, IAG), Doug Wiens (US, IASPEI)
Description
Measurements of solid Earth, sea-level and ice-sheet changes are influenced by a complex interaction of processes occurring over a large range of spatial and temporal scales. Present-day observations of solid Earth deformation in a given location are influenced by present and past changes in global surface loading, and these deformations play an important role in controlling ice-sheet changes in turn. Furthermore, observations that constrain past ice sheets are affected not only by glacial isostatic adjustment, but also by changing mantle dynamic topography and tectonic processes. In addition, applied geophysical investigations are revealing crucial spatial variations in Earth rheology, which again affect the deformation of the solid Earth. In this symposium, we showcase model- and data-driven efforts to understand feedbacks between surface load changes and the solid Earth over all timescales and observation types.
Topics covered by the Symposium:
- observations of mass changes in the cryosphere and oceans, and their interaction with solid Earth deformation
- influence of glacial isostatic adjustment on paleo and modern observations of sea level or ice sheet behavior
- seismicity induced by ice-mass and sea-level changes
- geophysical studies of the rheology of the solid Earth in the context of sea-level and ice-sheet studies
Solicited speakers: Tanghua Li (Earth Observatory of Singapore) and Terry Wilson (Ohio State University)
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JG02 Theory and Methods of Potential Fields (IAG, IAGA)
Convener(s): Dimitrios Tsoulis (Greece, IAG)Co-Convener(s): Sten Claessens (Australia, IAG), Maurizio Fedi (Italy, IAGA)
Description
Heterogeneous data sets of increasing spatial resolution describing the shape and structure of the Earth and other celestial bodies as well as their gravity and magnetic fields are currently available. This brings about new developments in the theory and methods of potential fields. Densely sampled Digital Elevation Models, global crustal models and an abundance of potential field models up to and beyond degree and order 5480 provide a dynamic framework for revisiting and updating the methodological apparatus that deals with all aspects of the theoretical description and numerical evaluation of potential functions and their spatial derivatives. The symposium welcomes contributions that fall into this topic and deal with new theoretical or methodological advances in modeling and evaluating potential fields for geodesy and geophysics. Terrain modeling and reductions at all spatial scales, spherical harmonic analysis and synthesis, spheroidal and ellipsoidal harmonics, ultra-high degree and order expansions, and analytical, numerical and multiresolutional techniques in potential field modeling are some of the encouraged keywords. Also welcomed are contributions that deal with source modeling through joint or separate inversion of potential fields.
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JG03 Remote Sensing and Modelling of the Atmosphere (IAG, IAGA, IAMAS, IAVCEI,)
Convener(s): Michael Schmidt (Germany, IAG)Co-Convener(s): Ehsan Forootan (Denmark, IAG), Loren Chang (Taiwan, China, IAGA), Claudia Stubenrauch (France, IAMAS), Fabio Dioguardi (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
Satellite observations provide a continuous survey of our planet’s surrounding atmosphere, which is structured into distinct layers, according, e.g. to temperature or charge state.
Space weather effects are observed in the magnetosphere, ionosphere, plasmasphere and thermosphere; its impacts and risks are gaining more and more importance in politics and sciences, because the demands of communications and precise positioning are ever increasing in the modern society.
Stratosphere and troposphere and their constituents are essential for life on our planet, and tropospheric water vapour is source of clouds and precipitation, which in turn affect the large-scale circulation through heat transfer. Radiative forcing induced by external factors like changes in aerosol and greenhouse gas concentrations leads to feedbacks which are still an important uncertainty source in modelling climate change. The synergistic use of different instruments and modelling is leading to major advances in the understanding of our climate.
This symposium invites contributions on advances in observing, modelling, and understanding our atmosphere – from troposphere to magnetosphere. Specific topics are:
- (near) real-time approaches to monitor and forecast the atmospheric state
- combination of various observation techniques and improvement of the representation of atmospheric key parameters in models
- monitoring the Earth by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and other measurement techniques
- studies on space weather research and coupling processes in the upper atmosphere
- aerosol, cloud, precipitation and radiation processes as well as interactions in the climate system
- data assimilation, model-data fusion, and artificial intelligence techniques for advancing modelling and prediction of atmospheric variables
- use of synergetic satellite observations and modelling for a better understanding of cloud processes and feedbacks
Possible Sessions:
1. Upper Atmosphere: Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Plasmasphere, Magnetosphere
2. From Ionosphere to Troposphere
3. Lower Atmosphere: Monitoring the Earth by Global Navigation Satellite Systems and other measurement systems
4. Lower Atmosphere: Water Vapour, Clouds, Precipitation and Radiation
5. Lower Atmosphere: Monitoring of anthropogenic and natural aerosols and their radiative forcing
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JG04 Satellite Gravimetry for Groundwater Monitoring (IAG, IAHS)
Convener(s): Adrian Jäggi (Switzerland, IAG)Co-Convener(s): Andreas Güntner (Germany, IAG), Felipe de Barros (Brazil/USA, IAHS), Michelle Newcomer (USA, IAHS)
Description
Groundwater is one of the most important freshwater resources for mankind and for ecosystems. Assessing groundwater resources and developing sustainable groundwater management plans are major fields of activity for science, water authorities and consultancies worldwide. To this end, sound data on the status of groundwater level and storage and of their changes is required. GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite gravimetry provides a unique capability to monitor subsurface mass transport and thus large-scale groundwater storage variations. In this symposium we gather the latest developments in the field of groundwater monitoring by satellite gravimetry. Contributions are solicited that that address improved GRACE/GRACE-FO processing strategies towards groundwater applications, methods for separating out groundwater storage variations from the total water storage observed by GRACE/GRACE-FO, evaluations of gravity-based groundwater storage against independent data sets, case studies of gravity-based groundwater resources assessments with or without combination with complementary data sets and models, developments of gravity-based groundwater products and services, among others.
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JG05 Geodesy for Climate Research (IAG, IAMAS, IACS, IAPSO, IAHS)
Convener(s): Annette Eicker (Germany, IAG)Co-Convener(s): Bert Wouters (Netherlands, IACS), John T Reager (USA, IAHS), Adam Scaife (UK, IAMAS), Benoit Meyssignac (France, IAPSO)
Description
This symposium is dedicated to the use of geodetic measuring techniques for innovative climate and Earth system studies. Modern geodetic observing systems document a wide range of changes in the Earth’s solid and fluid layers at very different spatial and temporal scales related to processes as, e.g., the terrestrial and atmospheric water cycle, ocean and atmosphere dynamics, sea level, ice-mass balance, and glacial isostatic adjustment. Different time spans of observations need to be cross-compared and combined to resolve a wide spectrum of climate-related signals. Geodetic observables are also often compared with geophysical models and climate models, which helps to explain observations, test theories, evaluate simulations, and finally merge measurements and numerical models via data assimilation. We appreciate contributions utilizing data from diverse geodetic observation techniques including altimetry and gravimetry satellites, navigation satellite systems, satellite radio occultation and reflectometry, InSAR, VLBI, tide gauges, or remote sensing. We welcome studies that cover a wide variety of applications of geodetic measurements and their combination to observe and model Earth system signals in hydrological, ocean, atmospheric, climate and cryospheric sciences. Any new approaches helping to separate and interpret the variety of geophysical signals are equally appreciated. Contributions working towards any of the goals of the Inter-Commission Committee on "Geodesy for Climate Research" (ICCC) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) are very welcome in this symposium.
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JG06 Monitoring Sea Level Changes by Satellite and In-Situ Measurements (IAG, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Xiaoli Deng (Australia, IAG)Co-Convener(s): Steve Nerem (USA, IAG), Fabio Raicich (Italy, IAPSO)
Description
Monitoring sea level changes at regional and global scales allows better understanding the climate system and supporting the design of adaption strategies to climate change. Sea level has been mainly measured by tide gauges and satellite altimeters. Coast-based tide gauge stations from around the world have for more than a century provided high temporal sea level records. Their number and lengths are being increased by sea-level data archaeology activities committed to discover and recover past observations. Satellite altimeters have been observing nearly global sea surface heights with revisit (or non-revisit) periods since the early 1990s. In addition, the spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has provided an alternative sea level monitoring method. Data availability from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission since 2002 and from the Argo system of autonomous profiling floats since 2005 allows to estimate the thermal expansion and mass transfer components in sea level rise. This IAG-led Joint JG6 Symposium invites researchers to present their studies in monitoring and observing sea level changes over multiple spatial and temporal scales using data from satellite altimetry, satellite gravimetry, GNSS-R, tide gauges, Argo and in-situ techniques.
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JG07 Modern Gravimetric Techniques for Geosciences (IAG, IAVCEI, IAPSO, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Jürgen Müller (Germany, IAG)Co-Convener(s): Chris Hughes (UK, IAPSO), Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig (Germany, IASPEI), Emily Montgomery-Brown (USA, IAVCEI)
Description
New tools for gravimetric Earth observation on ground and in space are being developed in quantum physics that enable novel applications and measurement concepts in the geosciences. We invite presentations to illustrate the principles and state of the art of these novel techniques, like quantum gravimetry, relativistic geodesy with clocks or chronometric levelling, advanced intersatellite tracking and others. These advanced techniques will open a door to a vast bundle of applications. Terrestrial mass variations can be monitored at various scales providing unique information on the related climate change processes. We especially welcome presentations on further applications of those new methods in the geosciences. For example, quantum gravimeters are beneficial for monitoring mass changes, e.g. at volcanos or of the local groundwater. Clock networks provide differences of physical heights and can monitor mass and height variations, e.g., at tide gauges, to disentangle land deformation and sea level rise. Based on that advanced quantum technology, improved observation of mass changes from space will give access to smaller (but relevant) effects like those related to permafrost thawing.
Solicited speaker: Daniele Carbone (INGV - Sezione di Catania, Osservatorio Etneo, Italy) - Experimentation of new technologies for volcano gravimetry at Mt. Etna
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IAGA
JA01 Machine Learning in Geo-, Ocean and Space Sciences (IAGA, IAVCEI, IAHS, IASPEI, IAMAS, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Peter Wintoft (Sweden, IAGA)Co-Convener(s): Hristos Tyralis (Greece, IAHS), Dave Reusch (USA, IAMAS), Istvan Szunyogh (USA, IAMAS), Fatma Jebri (UK, IAPSO), Gesa Maria Petersen (USA, IASPEI), Silvia Massaro (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
Modern artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are in the process of transforming many different fields of geosciences including for example seismology, the modelling of hydrological systems, space weather studies and oceanography. The progress in the development of ML algorithms combined with the increasing availability of geophysical data and computational power deliver a great promise for transformational advancements with the novel computational techniques. In this joined session, we invite presentations on a broad variety of AI, ML and DL methods, that both, establish new or improve commonly performed data processing, detection, clustering, interpretation, prediction and imaging tasks. In particular, we welcome contributions on the integration of ML techniques to improve the quality of oceanographic, geosciences and space sciences research approaches. The goal of the session is to establish the state of AI, ML and DL across multiple geoscientific fields, and to pave the path forward in taking full advantage of the exciting developments in ML/DL.
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JA02 Data Assimilation and Statistical Learning in Earth and Space Sciences (IAGA, IACS, IAHS, IAMAS, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Tomoko Matsuo (USA)Co-Convener(s): Patricia de Rosnay (UK, IACS), Julien Aubert (France, IAGA), Larry Kepko (USA,IAGA), Salvatore Grimaldi (Italy, IAHS), Craig Bishop (Australia, IAMAS)
Description
This symposium will serve as a forum on the latest research and development in data assimilation and statistical learning across Earth and Space Science community. Data assimilation is a powerful statistical learning framework that combines models, observations, and their respective uncertainties, allowing us to unify data-driven scientific induction with first principle-based deductions. The framework in the general form can be applied to any geophysical system, providing the common ground for our forum. On the other hand, applications of data assimilation and statistical learning techniques to sparsely observed geophysical systems (such as the core, mantle, cryosphere, hydrosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, and magnetosphere) face considerable challenges, requiring innovative adaptation of methods to maximize the use of sparse observations, and considerable research efforts to quantify model and observational uncertainties. This symposium solicits papers that address unique application challenges faced by different disciplines so that we can learn from each other and further our common interest in advancing data assimilation and statistical learning applications in the Earth and Space Sciences.
Solicited speakers: Takemasa Miyoshi (RIKEN, Japan), Stephan Grant (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA), Hristos Tyralis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
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JA03 Analogue Data for the Future: Preservation and Present-Day Utilization of Historical Data in the Geosciences (IAGA, IACS, IASPEI, IAHS, IAG, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Ciarán Beggan (UK, IAGA)Co-Convener(s): Lauren Vargo (New Zealand, IACS), Kirsten Elger (Germany, IAG), Hisashi Hayakawa (Japan/UK, IAGA), Alberto Viglione (Italy, IAHS), Satheesh S.C. Shenoi (India, IAPSO), Josep Batlló Ortiz (Spain, IASPEI), Kristine Harper (Denmark, IAMAS), Roberto Carniel (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
In many areas of geophysical and geological studies, long running measurements at a fixed location or over a wider region exist in analogue (physical) form including, amongst others, on photographic paper, in journals or as published tables. It is highly advantageous to convert analogue records to digital values, allowing modern computational techniques and analysis to be applied. However, it is often challenging to convert analogue records as formatting, the type of information recorded, accompanying metadata, and unit metrics change over time. Campaigns to digitize temperature or climate-related measurements have been very successful, especially with the recruitment of keen citizen scientists. However, more scientific formats, such as graphs with technical information or notation, are less amenable to generalist help. Historic analogue records frequently offer significant scientific implications, forming a baseline for analyses of long-term variability and/or short-term extreme hazards in multiple scientific aspects. In this context, it is important to compare these analogue records with one another and document their individual instrumental details for cross-calibrations. This session looks at methods for preservation, extraction, and analysis of historic analogue records, including by manual, image processing or machine learning techniques. This session also accommodates documentation of instrument detail and calibration methods for historical observations. This session welcomes new analyses using data that have previously been in analogue form, and case studies of long-term geophysical variability or individual short-term extreme events. We seek submissions from across all associations.
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JA04 Marine Geodesy and Geophysics – Opportunities & Hazards (IAGA, IAG, IASPEI, IAVCEI)
Convener(s): Sebastian Hölz (Germany, IAGA)Co-Convener(s): Valérie Ballu (France, IAG), Heidrun Kopp (Germany, IASPEI), Paraskevi Nomikou (Greece, IAVCEI)
Description
More than 70% of the Earth surface is covered by ocean. The seafloor is the critical interface where geology, climate, ecosystems, and human activities converge. Yet, a high percentage of the ocean’s seafloor and the subsurface below the seafloor remain unexplored and is both a source of opportunities in terms of unexplored resources (e.g. massive sulfides and hydrothermal fluids) as well as hazards (e.g. due to earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes or the exploitation of marine mineral resources). A responsible and sustainable use of resources and mitigation of geohazards require an enhanced knowledge about short- and long-term processes that shape the current sea floor, as well as about its role in the Earth System. Innovative methods help us to better identify and monitor structures, which can be related to geohazards as well as resources. This session invites all contributions of marine geophysical and geodetic research ranging from small to large scales aimed at characterizing structures and dynamics of the Earth’s interior and the seafloor. Solicited fields of research include instrumentation, survey design, data acquisition and novel data processing, visualization, modeling and interpretation procedures. We invite contributions from various fields of offshore geophysical investigations including seismological and seismic, electromagnetic methods as well as contributions from seafloor geodesy.
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JA05 Solar Influence on the Atmosphere and Climate (IAGA, IAMAS)
Convener(s): Christoph Jacobi (Germany, IAGA)Co-Convener(s): Luc Damé (France, IAGA), Odele Coddington (USA, IAMAS)
Description
The role of the Sun’s influence on past climate as well as in future climate variability keeps attracting much interest presently. State of the art climate models now include a well resolved stratosphere and mesosphere. This allows the prediction of global climate and its changes taking into account expected solar related variability, particularly in the ultraviolet, at short to long time scales. In the middle and upper atmosphere solar related electromagnetic and particle variability is one dominant forcing mechanism for atmospheric variability at time scales from days to decades. In this session we aim to stimulate discussion on the solar variability that drives Earth-system change on time scales from days to centuries. We welcome results from observations, including observations of solar radiation, theoretical work and modeling efforts that facilitate the implementation of solar irradiance in Earth science applications and that quantify meteorological and solar effects on the lower, middle, and upper atmosphere. We also welcome discussions on new missions or observational means to address these issues. Advances in reconstructing past climate and in projecting future climate considering the role of extraterrestrial forcing are also desired.
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JA06 Long-Term Changes in the Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Ionosphere (IAGA, IAMAS/ICMA)
Convener(s): Liying Qian (USA, IAGA)Co-Convener(s): Jan Lastovicka (Czech Republic, IAGA), Bernd Funke (Spain, UAMAS)
Description
Long-term changes of greenhouse gas concentrations not only cause troposphere climate change, they also cause long term changes in the middle and upper atmosphere. Other drivers, such as the long-term changes of the Earth's magnetic field, solar irradiance, and geomagnetic activity, can also contribute to the long-term changes in the atmosphere, especially in the upper atmosphere. Note that in atmospheric science, long term changes, or trends, refer to changes on a time scale longer than one solar cycle (~ 11 years). We welcome papers on investigating trends in the stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere, dealing with ground based as well as satellite borne observations, model simulations, theoretical analyses, long term data quality issues, methods of determination of trends, and related laboratory experiments.
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JA07 Interdisciplinary Observations of Pre-Earthquake Processes. The Concept of Lithosphere- Atmosphere- Ionosphere Coupling (IAGA, IASPEI (EMSEV))
Convener(s): Mala Bagiya (India, IAGA)Co-Convener(s): Dimitar Ouzounov (USA, IASPEI/EMSEV), Sergey Pulinets (Russia, IASPEI/EMSEV), Katsumi Hattori (Japan, IASPEI/EMSEV), Patrick Taylor (USA, IASPEI/EMSEV)
Description
This symposium concerns the multidisciplinary observations that could lead to understanding processes preceding earthquakes. New results were obtained from seismometers, magnetometers, magnetotelluric stations, GNSS receivers, and Low-Earth-orbiting satellites: DEMETER, Swarm, CSES, etc. This joined analysis of atmosphere-ionosphere connection, seismic records (foreshocks /aftershocks), geochemical, electromagnetic, and thermodynamic processes related to stress changes in the lithosphere established the foundation for the new lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling (LAIC) mechanism. This multi-instrumental approach can help support the missing data of the LAIC tools before, during, and after large earthquakes. Presentations will include but are not limited to: observations, modeling; analyses, seismic; geochemical, electromagnetic; and thermodynamic processes; and histories related to stress changes in the lithosphere and their statistical and physical validation. Presentations on the latest developments in earthquake predictability are welcomed.
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JA08 Ground and Satellite Electromagnetic Observations Related to Earthquakes, Tsunami's and Volcanic Activity (IAGA, IASPEI (EMSEV), IAVCEI)
Convener(s): Ramesh Singh (India/USA, EMSEV)Co-Convener(s): Ken'ichi Yamazaki (Japan, EMSEV), Qingjua Huang (China, IASPEI/EMSEV), Takeshi Hasimoto (Japan, IAVCEI/EMSEV)
Description
The earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are associated with deep ground and the ocean, and the effects are observed through various observing systems deployed on the ground surface, in the borehole, and the ocean. The multispectral satellites and airborne and drone sensors provide information at a high spatial and temporal resolution of the Earth, Ocean, meteorological, atmosphere, and ionosphere. The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) has proved an added advantage globally to observe signals associated with these natural hazards. Recent observations and data analysis has shown a strong coupling between land, ocean, atmosphere, meteorological and ionospheric parameters with earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. The changing climate system is believed to play an important role in the slow deformation and stress changes and frequency of these disasters. The session invites contributions based on laboratory, modeling, all kinds of ground and field, borehole, and satellite data analysis to understand the physical mechanism associated with these natural hazards.
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IAHS
JH01 New, Large, and Open Data for the Earth and Environmental Science Community (IAHS, IAPSO, IACS, IAGA, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Heidi Kreibich (Germany, IAHS)Co-Convener(s): Charles Fierz (Switzerland, IACS), Masahito Nosé (Japan, IAGA), Elena Tel Pérez (Spain, IAPSO), Florian Haslinger (Switzerland, IASPEI)
Description
Data is essential for understanding, modeling and managing earth and environmental processes, their interactions and their dynamics. Therefore, the acquisition, management and use of data is a central component of all earth and environmental sciences. New data sources and advanced monitoring methods, including new sensors and instruments on the ground, at sea and in the air, web crawling technology and citizen science, as well as the strong trend towards open data and data sharing, open up fantastic opportunities but also bring challenges. There are concerns, for example, about ensuring and appropriately documenting data quality in particular with respect to ‘new data’, as well as about creating sufficient incentives for monitoring, data sharing and monitoring downstream usage (attribution) with persistent identifiers, or about adequate long-term curation of raw data and derived products. The aim of this symposium is to present and discuss new opportunities, but also challenges of these developments. We want to learn from each other how to support and implement the UNESCO recommendation for open science, the WMO Unified Data Policy, and the IOC/IODE recommendations in the framework of the UN Ocean Decade. For example, issuing and managing persistent identifiers throughout the data lifecycle, building FAIR and CAREful 'open' services, enforcing proper citation, are approaches that help achieving the vision of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) and CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility and Ethics) data that support quality action and research in the open science environment.
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JH02 Advances in Snow Hydrology (IAHS, IACS)
Convener(s): Timothy Link (USA, IAHS)Co-Convener(s): Richard Essery (UK,IACS), Anna-Marie Jörss (IAHS, Germany)
Description
The storage and release of water from seasonal snowcovers constitutes a critical component of the annual hydrological cycle in many parts of the world. Quantifying, understanding, and predicting the processes that control snow distribution and ablation dynamics provide ample research challenges, especially in complex mountainous terrain. The spatial distribution of snowcover and its physical properties is highly variable at site to regional scales. Its dynamics are influenced by surrounding topography and vegetation that control accumulation and redistribution processes, as well as local micrometerological conditions that control snowcover energetics and ablation. Accurate measurement and modelling of snowcovers requires methods to assess variations in patterns and processes that act and interact at a range of spatial and temporal scales. Advances in these areas are needed and relevant to develop improved tools for scientists and managers concerned with floods, droughts, water supply, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, and the water-energy nexus in a changing climate. This session will bring together experimental and modeling experts to address recent research in snow hydrology. We especially encourage contributions related to topics such as: - Novel measurement approaches for snowpack states and fluxes - Feedbacks between climatic and snow hydrological processes and patterns - Snow-vegetation interactions in complex terrain - Effects of climate variability and change, especially in the rain-snow transition zone - Interactive effects of changing snow regimes and land cover patterns - Dynamics of the water-energy nexus in snow-dominated watersheds - Representation of small-scale variability in large scale modeling applications - Advances in modeling, including operational applications.
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JH03 Snow in the Critical Zone (IAHS, IACS)
Convener(s): McKenzie Skiles (USA, IAHS)Co-Convener(s): Marie Dumont (France, IACS), Maria Jose Polo (Spain, IAHS), Richard Petrone (Canada, IAHS)
Description
In high elevation and high latitude environments snow plays an important role in the critical zone, the layer of Earth where fresh water flows and life exists. In regions where snow accumulates seasonally the temporal patterns of snow storage are intricately linked with phenology, and snowmelt is often the dominant source of streamflow generation and groundwater recharge that sustains ecological systems. Ecosystems that store snow, and those downstream that rely on the consistent timing and magnitude of snowmelt, are vulnerable to less and more variable snow cover in response to a warming climate. These systems are also at risk from rapid change due to disturbance events, such as forest fires or insect infestation, which are increasing in frequency and have long term implications for ecosystem function. This symposium welcomes all submissions that observe or simulate snow-ecosystem interactions and aim to better characterize the role of snow and meltwater hydrology in the critical zone. For example, studies of snow melt partitioning and storage, snow-vegetation interaction, and how snow and snow dominated systems are being impacted by, and responding to, change and disturbance.
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JH04 Anthropocene: Perspectives From and Within Geophysics (IAHS, IAMAS, IACS, IASPEI, IAVCEI, IAG, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Christophe Cudennec (France, IAHS)Co-Convener(s): Richard Essery (UK,IACS), Melita Keywood (Australia, IAMAS/iCACGP), Mark Lawrence (Germany, IAMAS/iCACGP), Domenico Giardini (Switzerland, IASPEI), Roberto Sulpizio (Italy, IAVCEI), Catia Domingues (UK, IAPSO)
Description
As the International Union of Geological Sciences considers the Anthropocene from a stratigraphic perspective, and as other communities are considering a wider definition (see the ICSU-ICS intermediate synthesis in 2016, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/global-environmental-change/vol/39/suppl/C) IUGG has to reconsider the concept and to renew its contribution. This session welcomes any communication in that perspective, including about great acceleration, planetary boundaries, change detection and attribution, climate change and other changes to the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere-hydrosphere system, such as erosion-sedimentation, man-induced seismicity and man-driven geomorphology, along with related farther-reaching topics such as One Health; and assessing these issues and science-informed policy options for mitigation and adaptation together with the socio-geosciences.
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JH05 Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing and Innovative Monitoring for Advancing Geo-Sciences (IAHS, IASPEI, IAGA, IACS, IAMAS)
Convener(s): Fernando Nardi (Italy, IAHS)Co-Convener(s): Ryan Crumley (USA, IACS), Manoj Nair (USA, IAGA), Thomas Spengler (Norway, IAMAS), Rémy Bossu (France, IASPEI)
Description
Citizen involvement in science has been transformed in the last decade by new and widely accessible data acquisition and processing tools as well as by pervasive low-cost and portable technology. Geospatial technologies and affordable equipment (smart phones, cameras, drones, etc.) allow students, researchers, and citizens to gather, analyze, visualize, and share a wealth of earth system data at different spatial and temporal scales. New opportunities are, thus, arising for addressing the uncertainties and inaccuracies of geophysical models and risk management within different fields, for a better understanding, monitoring, and forecasting of geophysical extremes. Citizen science is supporting a new paradigm for geosciences, where active citizens and crowdsourcing of data have a pivotal role for risk mitigation, communication, and awareness. This transition requires multi-disciplinary and trans-sectoral knowledge, analytical approaches, and data processing methods, spanning from earth-, geo-, hydro-, cryo- sciences to humanities as well as social and communication sciences, to synergistically define the guidelines and procedures that support effective use of human-sensed data. A key challenge in using citizen-science data is the significant noise content in the data collected by untrained users. Recent advances in Machine-Learning (ML) could allow us to build noise-filtering algorithms that can take advantage of high volumes of data created by citizen-science projects. In this framework, the use of unintended technology along with do-it-yourself and low cost equipment is opening novel observational avenues. This joint symposium seeks contributions on data, tools, methods, and procedures that explore the role, value, and performances of citizen science and innovative sensing for earth science research.
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JH06 Education & Outreach in Geosciences (IAHS, IASPEI, IAGA, IAG, IAVCEI, IACS, IAMAS, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Christophe Cudennec (France, IAHS)Co-Convener(s): Fabien Maussion (Austria, IACS), Markku Poutanen (Finland, IAG), Katia Pinheiro (Brasil, IAGA), Tereza Kameníková (Czech Republic, IAGA), Thomas Spengler (Norway, IAMAS), Angela Pomaro (Italy, IAPSO), Raju Sarkar (Bhutan, IASPEI), Natalia Pardo (Colombia, IAVCEI)
Description
Sharing scientific knowledge and methods through education and outreach is of high importance to support the societal transition in terms of sustainability, development, and security. Initial and life-long education, training in operational services, and capacity development within institutions and society are facing many challenges, when dealing with environmental and societal changes, disaster risk reduction, and the evolution of techniques along the data – information – knowledge – decision support chain. This symposium welcomes conceptual developments as well as practical study cases from geoscientists, as well as from didacticians and knowledge brokers. The variety of approaches across disciplines and across the diversity of the geosciences will provide a collective overview on education and outreach activities the basics and variants in our fields. The symposium also encourages sharing of lessons learned from the enhanced digitization induced by the pandemic and from the ongoing digital revolution, showcasing perspectives of the knowledge society and the Open Science paradigm.
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IAMAS
JM01 Recent Advances in Regional Climate Modelling (IAMAS, IACS, IAHS)
Convener(s): Tomas Halenka (Czech Republic, IAMAS)Co-Convener(s): Sven Kotlarski (Switzerland, IACS), Erika Coppola (Italy, IAHS)
Description
Regional climate models (RCMs) are important tools which can be used not only for dynamical downscaling of global climate models (GCMs) but for the analysis of a broad spectrum of problems, e.g. in land surface interaction, cloud processes, atmospheric chemistry and many other purposes. These also include hydrological and cryospheric applications, acknowledging the fact that due to their interactive role in the climate system sophisticated representations of the terrestrial hydrology and the terrestrial cryosphere are incorporated in today's state-of-the-art climate models. A recent trend in RCM development concerns the increase of the spatial resolution, shifting from a few tens towards just a few kilometers. This so-called convection-permitting mode enables the explicit representation of small scale features such as convective precipitation extremes or specific climate features in complex topography. However, this approach is very demanding in terms of computational resources, which requires specific developments in IT and high-performance computing. These challenges already lead to broader cooperations between modelling groups (e.g., CORDEX). These collaborations, in turn, are able to provide larger ensembles for certain regions of interest with a decent coverage of projection uncertainty. In general, high-resolution simulations from RCMs can significantly improve the applicability for climate change impacts assessment - including impacts on the terrestrial hydrology and cryosphere - and for further climate services and the development of adaptation strategies. Contributions addressing all these above mentioned aspects as well as broader regional climate modelling science are welcome to be submitted for this session.
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JM02 Tropical-Polar Interactions, Arctic Amplification and Its Influence on Midlatitude Weather (IAMAS, IACS, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Xichen Li (China, IAMAS)Co-Convener(s): Anais Orsi (Canada, IACS), Lee Welhouse (USA, IAMAS), Sheeba Nettukandy Chenoli (Malaysia, IAMAS), Jonathan Wille (USA, IAMAS), Matthew England (Australia, IAPSO)
Description
The Earth’s tropical and polar regions are not isolated climate systems and are in a constant cycle of feedback regarding heat, moisture, and momentum exchanges. The interactions between polar regions and lower latitudes play a crucial role in the earth climate system. On the other hand, Arctic and Antarctic experienced dramatic climate changes in recent decades. The surface temperature trend over the Arctic is more than twice as fast as the global warming rate, associated with a rapid Arctic sea-ice retreat, which is known as the Arctic Amplification. Rapid Arctic changes contribute to a series of climate changes in mid-latitudes. This symposium invites discussions on the rapid climate changes over the Arctic and Antarctic regions and their impacts on lower latitudes, as well as the teleconnections between tropics/mid-latitudes and the polar regions and resulting impacts on the polar atmosphere-ocean-sea ice system. An understanding of tropospheric and stratospheric pathways of the tropical-polar interaction is essential for both short-term and seasonal forecasting along with calibrating future climate change projections. The Arctic amplification has broad implications on the cold winter over the Eurasian continent and extreme weather events over the Northern Hemisphere during both winter and summer. These will be the main focus of this symposium. Topics of discussion welcomed in this symposium include any studies that connect the lower latitudes and the higher latitudes such as empirical and modelling approaches to Rossby wave and jet stream dynamics, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, meridional moisture transport, ocean-atmospheric linkages, and how these processes impact the earth climate system in the past, present, and future. If a butterfly flaps its wings in the tropics or polar regions, can we model its impacts in the Arctic and Antarctic or lower latitudes?
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JM03 Polar Regions Instrumentation (IAMAS, IACS, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Tracy Moffat-Griffin (United Kingdom, IAMAS)Co-Convener(s): Alexis Berne (Switzerland, IACS), Matthew Lazzara (USA, IAMAS), Adam T. Ringler (USA, IASPEI)
Description
There are many ways to study and characterize the atmosphere, from the use of ground-based instrumentation and balloons to satellite observations. This symposium welcomes submissions that cover different atmospheric instrument approaches to studying the depth of the polar atmosphere: the surface, the troposphere and beyond. New atmospheric instrumentation and their results, new analysis techniques or planned projects/observational research campaigns will be highlighted. Observational studies that feature polar instrumentation applications are also encouraged in this symposium.
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JM04 Weather and Climate Extremes: Understanding, Modeling, Prediction, and Impacts (IAMAS, IAHS)
Convener(s): Julie Mireille Thériault (Canada, IAMAS), Jiwen Fan (USA, IAMAS)Co-Convener(s): Corinna Hoose (Germany, IAMAS), Hongyi Li (USA, IAHS), Abhishekh K Srivastava (USA, IAMAS), Christopher White (UK, IAHS), Brian Golding (UK, IAMAS)
Description
Weather and climate extremes have been increasing in both frequency and magnitude, imposing significant impacts on society. These include, but are not limited to, heavy rain and rain-on-snow events leading to major flooding events, occurrence of hail damaging crops and infrastructure, heavy wet snow and freezing precipitation causing major power outages and transportation interruptions, excessive heat causing major loss of life. Physical factors affecting extreme event intensity and frequency are particularly complicated by human-natural system interactions. A better understanding of extreme events, especially compound events, and their impacts requires interdisciplinary research, and this session aims to foster cross-discipline discussion and collaboration on this topic. We solicit studies that utilize various tools such as observations, analysis, and modelling, integration with machine learning and artificial intelligence at various scales from the fields of atmospheric and climate sciences, land- and marine-atmosphere interactions, and hydrology to improve (a) understanding of contributing factors, (b) prediction of extremes at various time scales, (c) models across scales, and (d) impacts on society. Work on human-natural interactions (such as interactions with urbanization, greenhouse gases and aerosols and including vulnerability and risk assessment), sub-seasonal and seasonal prediction, and convection-permitting Earth system modeling are particularly welcome. Contributions relevant to the World Weather Research Programme project on High-impact Weather (HIWeather) and to the World Climate Research Programme Grand Challenge on Climate and Weather Extremes including cross-cutting themes are especially encouraged.
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JM05 Earth System Models: Assessing the Earth System’s State and Fate From Regional to Planetary Scales (IAMAS, IAHS, IACS, IAPSO, IAVCEI?)
Convener(s): François Massonnet (Belgium, IAMAS)Co-Convener(s): Sophie Nowicki (USA, IACS), Richard Petrone (Canada, IAHS), Anna von der Heydt (Netherlands, IAPSO)
Description
Earth System Models (ESMs) have become a cornerstone in geosciences, being used for process understanding, detection and attribution of climate signals, prediction from sub-seasonal to millennial time scales, regional downscaling, and impact analyses. Each generation of ESMs presents refinements compared to the previous one: from one cycle of model development to the next, spatial resolution increases, more components of the Earth system are included, and new processes become explicitly represented. Also, observations and data-driven approaches are increasingly used within ESMs to better predict high-impact events. This symposium encourages contributions dealing with the many facets of Earth System Model development, evaluation, and application, including but not limited to: modeling results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, development and assessment of models making use of recent Earth observations from ground- and space-based measurements, prediction of climate on seasonal to centennial timescales, climate change detection and attribution, regional-scale climate modeling and process analysis, high-resolution climate modeling, and subgrid scale parameterization development including statistical and machine learning techniques. Submissions on the latest advances in coupled aspects of the Earth system are particularly encouraged.
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IAPSO
JP01 Tides (IAPSO, IAHS, IAGA, IASPEI, IAG)
Convener(s): Joanne Williams (UK, IAPSO)Co-Convener(s): Jean-Paul Boy (France, IAG), Nick Pedatella (USA, IAGA), Christophe Cudennec (France, IAHS), Philip Woodworth (UK, IAPSO), Evgeny Podolskiy (Japan, IASPEI)
Description
The session will be open to submissions on any aspect of the tides of the ocean, estuaries, lakes, solid earth, and atmosphere. Tides are fundamental to many geophysical processes, driving ocean mixing, contributing to coastal erosion and sediment transport, and influencing ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystems. Tides affect port operations and coastal infrastructure and modulate the severity of storm surges and coastal flooding. Energy from ocean tides is harnessed for electricity generation. In the cryosphere, tides are also important, including for sea ice dynamics, transport and mixing processes. Icy worlds are not only affected by tides but also modulate them. For example, sea ice dampens tidal amplitudes and currents. At the same time, tides regulate the growth of sea ice, contribute to melting of glacial/sea ice, and can be a pacemaker of glacier flow, deformation, and fracture. Interannual variability in the tides may arise from variations in sea ice extent, changes in ocean stratification or regional climate processes. Tides also play an important role throughout Earth's atmosphere, as well as in other planetary atmospheres. Coastal, regional and global models of tides and internal tides continue to develop, as do techniques for observing tides and reconstructing historical tidal data. We welcome presentations on these methods, and discoveries about past and future long-term changes in tides, tidal variability, tidal dynamics, and the impacts of tides.
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JP02 Arctic Ocean Physics and Biochemistry in a Changing Climate (IAPSO, IACS)
Convener(s): Agatha de Boer (Sweden, IAPSO)Co-Convener(s): Martin Vancoppenolle (France, IACS), Sheldon Bacon (UK, IAPSO), Igor Polyakov (USA, IAPSO), Zoe Koening (Norway, IAPSO)
Description
The United Nations declared Climate Change as the defining challenge of our time. The most vulnerable region on Earth is the Arctic, which is warming at double the global mean rate. Given the Arctic’s frontline importance, a large scientific investment has recently been made to understand and predict the Arctic Ocean’s heat content, freshwater content, and its sea-ice state. Arctic modelling efforts have been improved and new observations have been added from ship data, moorings, and satellites. Nevertheless, models have difficulty to simulate the Arctic’s climate state - simulations of the sea ice cover in recent decades tend to underestimate the observed rapid decline and predictions of when the Arctic will be ice-free vary widely. In order to meet the challenges of the future, we may need to accelerate progress by true trans-disciplinary science. Thus, we invite abstracts covering observations, theory, and modelling of the physics and biochemistry of the ocean and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and its neighbouring seas. Abstracts are also encouraged across a large time frame, from past Arctic Ocean states, to the present state, as well as predictions of the future. Abstract that cover more than one of these aspects are particularly welcome.
Solicited speakers: Dirk Notz (University of Hamburg, Germany), Celine Heuze (Gothenburg University, Sweden), Marie Louise Timmermans (Yale University, USA)
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JP03 Physical and Biogeochemical Ocean and Ice Processes in the Southern Ocean: Observations, State Estimation and Modeling (IAPSO, IACS)
Convener(s): Joellen L. Russel (USA, IAPSO)Co-Convener(s): Martin Vancoppenolle (France, IACS), Adele Morrison (Australia, IAPSO), Ilana Wainer (Brazil, IAPSO)
Description
Quantification and simulation of the physical and biogeochemical processes that determine the Southern Ocean and its ice cover’s mean state, variability, and response to external forcing are critical to our understanding of the climate system as a whole, and for reducing uncertainties in climate projections. Advances in data collection, state estimation and modeling capabilities have finally established the necessary infrastructure to permit a deeper understanding of the Southern Ocean’s processes that are relevant to climate. This session will present new results based on modeling and/or observational efforts that investigate ocean and ice processes in the Southern Ocean, in terms of physical and biogeochemical processes, as well as ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions.
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JP04 Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions: Challenges and Insights From Theory, Observations and Modelling (IAPSO, IACS, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Felicity McCormack (Australia, IAPSO), Isabel Nias (UK, IACS)Co-Convener(s): Donald Slater (UK, IACS), Sue Cook (Australia, IACS), Yoshihiro Nakayama (Japan, IAPSO), Helene Seroussi (USA, IACS/IAPSO), Rick Aster (USA, IASPEI)
Description
Ocean-driven melting of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets is accelerating and is a key process contributing to the significant uncertainty associated with estimates of future sea level rise. Ice sheet-ocean interactions range across spatial scales: from the microscale processes governing melt at the ice-ocean boundary layer, through the buoyancy-driven circulation beneath ice shelves and at tidewater glaciers, to large-scale fjord and open ocean circulation patterns; and across a range of timescales: in response to seasonal fluctuations in warm water supply to the ice-ocean front to multi-decadal and centennial oscillations in response to intrinsic ice and ocean dynamic processes. This symposium brings together researchers working in the areas of interactions between ice sheets, ice shelves, tidewater glaciers, icebergs, and the ocean, and covering a range of spatial and temporal scales that are relevant to ocean-driven melting of ice. The session will cover theoretical, observational, and modelling disciplines. Studies that offer new insights and technologies to improve understanding of ice-ocean interactions are particularly welcomed.
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JP05 Tsunamis (IAPSO, IASPEI, IAVCEI, IAMAS, IAG)
Convener(s): Yuichiro Tanioka (Japan, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Maitane Olabarrieta (USA, IAMAS), Diana Greenslade (Australia, IAPSO), Maria Ana Baptista (Portugal, IAPSO), Alexander Rabinovich (Russia, IASPEI), Mohammad Herdarzadeh (UK, IASPEI), Yuichi Nishimura (Japan, IAVCEI)
Description
Tsunamis are one of the most devastating natural disasters, with the potential to cause tremendous damage along coastlines around the world. Catastrophic tsunami events of this century, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean and 2011 Tohoku tsunamis, have demonstrated the increasing risk of disasters for coastal population and infrastructure. As a response to these deadly tsunamis, many new tsunami forecast and warning capabilities have been developed and implemented. The 2018 Sulawesi and Krakatau tsunamis have demonstrated that tsunamis caused by mechanisms other than great earthquakes must also be considered. The more recent 2022 large volcanic eruption in Tonga generated air-sea coupled wave causing damage along the coast around the Pacific. Sea-level rise caused by global warning also presents new challenges for tsunami science. The IUGG symposium will discuss all aspects of tsunami science including: theoretical and numerical research on tsunami generation and inundation; development of forecast and warning methods; investigation of geologic records of past events; response, mitigation, and recovery strategies; observational studies, including collation of historical observations; and hazard and risk studies from tsunamis generated by earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions. The symposium will also include a special session on meteo-tsunamis, including the air-sea coupled wave due to the 2022 Tonga eruption, in association with IAMAS.
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JP06 Electromagnetic Studies of the Ice and Ocean System (IAPSO, IACS, IAGA)
Convener(s): Jan Saynisch-Wagner (Germany, IAPSO)Co-Convener(s): Kenichi Matsuoka (Norway, IACS), Ingo Wardinski (France, IAGA), Neesha R. Schnepf (USA, IAGA), Graham Hill (Czech Republic, IAGA), Christopher Irrgang (Germany, IAPSO)
Description
Electromagnetic signals are sensitive to a wide range of oceanographic and cryospheric system properties, e.g., salinity, temperature, aggregate state, velocity or transport. Electromagnetic observations come from a range of sources: stationary magnetometer observatories providing long time series of data; tracks from ships, gliders, buoys, or planes; measurement expeditions; ocean bottom magnetometers; and observations from passive deep sea telecommunication cables. The session invites studies that utilize the available data to infer information about the state of, or changes in, the ocean-cryosphere system. In addition, we invite numerical or theoretical studies that focus on the respective sensitivities.
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IASPEI
JS01 Cryoseismology (IASPEI, IACS, IAG)
Convener(s): Andreas Köhler (Norway, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Alex Brisbourne (UK, IACS), Bernd Kulessa (UK, IACS), Mirko Scheinert (Germany, IAG), Masaki Kanao (Japan, IASPEI)
Description
The cryosphere, comprising the Earth’s glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, permafrost, and snowpack, is undergoing rapid change in a warming climate. However, our understanding of the processes governing these changes is hindered by a lack of observations with sufficient temporal and spatial resolution in these generally remote and often inaccessible environments. Fortunately, many of the cryospheric processes of interest produce ground vibrations or cause variations in the seismic wave propagation properties. Analysis of these seismic signals and ground changes can yield essential insight into the relationship between environmental forcing and the response of ocean - cryosphere - solid earth systems. For example, impulsive events with small magnitudes (icequakes) and larger teleseismically detected glacial earthquakes can be generated by dynamic glacial processes such as calving or basal slip. Furthermore, ambient seismic noise interferometry allows us to monitor seasonal and long-term changes in permafrost, ice bodies, and the solid earth below ice sheets and glaciers. Continuous study of temporal and spatial variability of these processes improves our understanding of the cryosphere’s response to climate change. In this joint symposium between IASPEI and IACS, we invite submissions which cover the full gamut of “cryoseismology”. We encourage contributions treating the observation and modeling of seismic signals involving dynamics of ice sheets, sea ice, icebergs and glaciers, as well as changes to the thermal and physical structure of permafrost and snow. We invite submissions on case studies, development of survey techniques, advances in the processing, integration with other geophysical methods or in-situ observations, as well as new technologies such as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) with fiber optics.
Solicited speaker: Fabian Walter (Switzerland)
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JS02 Seismo – Geodesy (IASPEI, IAG)
Convener(s): Takuya Nishimura (Japan, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Jean-Mathieu Noquet (France, IAG)
Description
Geodetic measurements contribute to the study of the different phases of the seismic cycle, as they allow recording coseismic, postseismic, and interseismic deformation. Together with seismology, geodetic data helps improving seismic hazard assessment and define new early warning systems for earthquakes. This symposium focuses on both theoretical aspects and observational challenges of earthquake-related deformation using geodetic measurements, as well as the joint use of seismology and geodesy to better understand the behavior of faults.
Solicited speakers: Prof. Tim Wright (University of Leeds, UK) Dr. Eiichiro Araki (JAMSTEC, Japan)
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JS03 Probing the Earth’s Lithosphere: Understanding Tectonic, Volcanic, Cryotonic and Geodynamic Processes Using Geophysical Methods (IASPEI, IAG, IAGA)
Convener(s): Uli Achauer (France, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Holger Steffen (Sweden, IAG), Foteini Vervelidou (France, IAGA)
Description
The emergence of many new high-resolution datasets in almost all different disciplines of geosciences over the last two decades further emphasized that most geoscientific objects are so complex, that only interdisciplinary efforts and combination of datasets provide a pathway to decipher their complex structures and variability with time.
Cratonic domaines, hotspot track systems, rifted continental margins, subduction zones, continental baby plumes, intraplate seismicity, coastal subsidence, and impact cratering are just few examples of such processes pertaining in particular to Earth's lithosphere. In this symposium we welcome studies which shed new light on the evolution and geodynamic development of complex geological processes and structures of Earth's lithosphere using geophysical methods. Terrestrial and space-borne studies making combined use of data from different fields in earth sciences, e.g., potential fields like magnetic field and gravity, tectonics, geochemistry, and structural geology, as well as studies including geodynamic modelling are especially welcome. We further invite presentation on multidisciplinary national and international research infrastructures for integrated use of data and their products.
Solicited speakers:
Magdala Tesauro (University of Trieste, Italy) will present her work on the collisional phase of young orogens using numerical simulations and observations in the Zagros Collisional Zone.
Hanjin Choe (Pusan National University, South Korea) will present his work on the effects of hydrothermal circulation at subduction zones on the magnetization of oceanic crust using geodynamic modeling.
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JS04 Monitoring, Imaging and Mapping of Volcanic Areas (IASPEI, IAG, IAVCEI, IAGA)
Convener(s): Thomas Walter (Germany, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Ronni Grapenthin (USA. IAG), Takeshi Hashimoto (Japan, IAGA), Federico Lucchi (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
Over 1500 volcanoes are considered active, and are in reach of an estimated 10% of the global population. Volcanoes are curse and blessing for the population, as they are a source of significant hazards difficult to predict, and provide fertile soil and exploitable resources. Thanks to field-constrained eruptive histories of active centers and improved instrumental monitoring on the ground, complemented by high resolution remote sensing and complex modelling, the involved time scales, dimensions of volcanic processes and diversity in eruptive style are much better understood. All this allows identifying the internal structure and unrest, intrusion of magma in reservoirs and dikes, hydrothermal activity and degassing at the surface, and material transport processes to distance. Despite these advances, significant volcano eruptions and location is unpredictable, and the duration, rates, or scale remain largely speculative, as vividly demonstrated for the recent eruptions at Nyiragongo (DR Congo), at Hunga Tonga (SW Pacific), Fagradallsfjall (Iceland), or at La Palma (Canary Islands), and elsewhere. The aim of this joint symposium is to bring together scientists elaborating volcanic areas using monitoring, imaging and modelling techniques, to better understand the past, present, and future of volcanoes, and to access the hazards and benefits of volcanic areas. In particular, we invite contributions using broad techniques from geophysical imaging, seismology, geodesy, as well as from active and passive remote sensing, geochemistry, gas analysis and petrology, in order to exchange on how volcanoes prepare for eruptions, undergo unrest, hydrothermally exhalate during periods of quiescence, and evolve in the short and long term. Moreover, interaction of volcanoes and their surrounding will be discussed in this symposium, trying to better understand and exchange on the role of the tectonics, glaciers, earthquakes, ocean, and climate.
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JS05 Real-Time GNSS Data and Products Usage: Interoperability and Management Challenges (IASPEI, IAG, IAVCEI, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Angelo Strollo (Germany, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Antonio Avallone (Italy, IAG), Yuhe Tony Song (USA, IAPSO), Clinton John (Switzerland, IASPEI), Giuseppe Puglisi (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
The Internet of Things continues to expand with reduced restrictions throughout the Urban Space and enables reliable and simple real-time data streaming even from very remote areas. Such technological developments, alongside the growth in cloud computing, have enabled real-time streaming of GNSS data and products. GNSS data today has mature standards (i.e. RTCM formats) for a wide spectrum of applications (civil and military navigation, science, commercial purposes). On the other hand, GNSS products are domain-specific, requiring expertise of scientists and technical personnel. In the last decade, real-time GNSS products have offered new opportunities for monitoring natural hazards in real-time (i.e. earthquakes, volcanoes, landscapes). To become widely available within existing domain specific processing pipelines these products must be available via standard formats and services. A typical example is real-time satellite orbit and clock data which enables several real-time positioning flavours, from standard precise point positioning and relative positioning to regional augmentation and seismic and geodetic data fusion. These products, available in real-time and via standard formats and services (e.g., seedlink and mseed for seismology) could be game changers within the context of early warning systems for tsunamis, landslides, volcanoes, and other natural disasters, as well as for infrastructural monitoring. This interdisciplinary symposium welcomes contributions outlining recent developments in real-time GNSS applications, in particular the usage of real-time data and products within the geophysics domain. This includes: processing techniques developed for real-time products, augmentation through the addition of new data; data management policies; use case examples, in particular those fostering interoperability; adoption or development of new standard formats. The aim of the symposia is to remove the barriers between scientific domains, foster interoperability, and to welcome discussions that lead towards interdisciplinary technical discussions around common formats and interoperability.
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JS06 Joint Inversion of Different Geophysical Data Sets (IASPEI, IAGA, IAG, IAVCEI)
Convener(s): Christel Tiberi (France, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Mareen Lösing, (Germany, IAG), Max Moorkamp (Germany, IASPEI/IAGA), Alexander Grayver (Switzerland, IAGA), Luca D'Auria (Spain, IAVCEI)
Description
The Earth is composed of various materials with different physical properties. Therefore understanding its structure and dynamics requires a combination of multiple observations and complementary tools. For decades now, the joint use of different geophysical and geological datasets in inversion or modelling has become a popular way of investigating Earth structure and dynamics at many different scales. In this symposium, we will address all aspects of research that utilize the combination of multiple datasets in multiple parameter inversion or modelling. This includes methodological concepts to improve the performance of integrative imaging, innovative applications and case studies of these techniques, theoretical developments and multi-scale approaches. We welcome contributions from all disciplines that use data integration for a better quantitative understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Earth, from the subsurface down to its core.
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JS07 Geophysical Constraints on the Earth’s Deep Interior Combining Modelling and Observations (IASPEI, IAGA, IAG, SEDI)
Convener(s): Jérémy Rekier (Belgia, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): Carla Braintenberg (Italy, IAG), David Cebron (France, IAHS)
Description
This symposium aims to bring together contributions from different fields aiming to elucidate the physics of the deep Earth, in particular the Core-Mantle interactions. Recent satellite missions GRACE, GOCE and SWARM have provided invaluable data that can be used to constrain the planet’s deep interior dynamics and physical state. Combined with geodetic and seismic observations, these can be used to constrain the existence of density stratification in the outer core which would affect models of geodynamo, and long-term thermal evolution. With the addition of magnetic observations, magnetohydrodynamics models can be employed to constrain the electric conductivity near the CMB and its direct effect on the Earth’s nutation and length of Day. We also welcome contributions concerning the inner core composition and dynamical interactions with the outer core and mantle.
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JS08 Advances in Heat Flow Studies: From Fundamental Geodynamic Understanding to Geothermal Energy Applications (IASPEI, IAVCEI (IHFC))
Convener(s): Ben Norden (Germany, IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Ivone Jimenez Munt (Spain, IASPEI), Sukanta Roy (India, IASPEI)
Description
Until the 1950s, terrestrial heat flow was only documented in a few specific areas of the globe. Due to the importance of heat flow determinations in characterizing the Earth’s energy budget, geodynamic processes, and its role in geothermal energy exploration, the need for extensive heat-flow measurements and mapping became clear. Since 1963, the International Heat Flow Commission of IASPEI has been advising on the acquisition of heat-flow data through temperature-depth measurements and thermal properties of rocks in a variety of geologic environments and tectonic regimes. This effort has led to significant advances in heat flow studies that have positively influenced many disciplines, e.g. seismology, magnetism, volcanology, geodynamics, and hydrogeology. It is now widely recognized that understanding the mechanisms of heat transfer in continental and oceanic regions is crucial for better appreciation of the thermal structure of the lithosphere. For example, the depth distribution of earthquakes can be related to the brittle-ductile boundary which is thermally controlled. In polar regions heat flow can exert a key influence on ice-sheet temperature, ice rheology, basal melting, and the consequent mechanical decoupling at the ice-bedrock interface. Other contemporary topics that thermal studies address include climate change, permafrost thawing, and mineral resource evaluation. This symposium marks the 60th anniversary of the International Heat Flow Commission with the goal of highlighting the accomplishments of heat-flow studies, as well as the technological advances in borehole and rock thermo-physical measurements, and their relationship to a wide range of geodynamic processes related to the thermal state. We welcome contributions that describe the results of experimental and theoretical works of any geoscientific discipline and the symposium is designed to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, methods, and concepts centered on the thermal aspects of the Earth’s interior.
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JS09 Early Warning Systems for Geohazards (IASPEI, IAVCEI, IAHS, IAG)
Convener(s): Elisa Zuccolo (Italy, IASPEI)Co-Convener(s): John LaBrecque (USA, IAG), Maria-Helena Ramos (France, IAHS), Roberto Sulpizio (Italy, IAVCEI)
Description
Natural disasters related to a variety of geohazards (e.g. earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and floods) constantly pose threats to humankind and ecosystems at large on a global scale. Exposure to geohazards has increased dramatically in recent decades, and climate change has already affected the frequency and severity of weather-related events in several regions of the world. Consequently, social vulnerability has also changed, prompting Civil Protection authorities and decision makers to increasingly focus on disaster mitigation and risk reduction strategies. In this context, Early Warning Systems (EWS) constitute a major tool to improve preparedness and response to geohazards, prevent loss of life, and reduce economic impacts. Increasing the availability and access to multi-hazard EWS and disaster risk information is also one of the global targets set by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. This Symposium aims at bringing together scientific and operational advances on the development and demonstration of EWS for geohazards. It provides an opportunity for summarizing the progresses in the achievement of the Sendai Framework targets and reporting on latest trends in EWS for a broad range of geohazards. It also includes identifying current gaps and key challenges for the co-design of EWS with stakeholders and end users, and for their practical implementation. The symposium encourages original research and sharing of knowledge, lessons learned and emerging examples of good practice. The goal is to favor a multi-disciplinary discussion and synergies as a basis for commitments aimed at expanding EWS capacities for geohazards. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: (i) monitoring systems for geohazards, (ii) dynamic and evolutionary process modelling; (iii) treatment of epistemic uncertainty; (iv) decision-making strategies; (v) methodologies and tools for (near) real-time risk mitigation; (vi) cost-benefit analysis and evaluation of socio-economic impact; (vii) evaluation of cascading effects; (viii) practical case studies.
Solicited speakers: Simona Colombelli (University of Naples Federico II, Italy), Léo Martire (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA), Tim Melbourne (Central Washington University, USA)
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IAVCEI
JV01 Volcano-Ice Interactions (IAVCEI, IACS)
Convener(s): Shaun Eaves (New Zealand, IACS)Co-Convener(s): Rosie Cole (New Zealand, IAVCEI)
Description
Interactions between volcanism and the cryosphere are important parts of the evolution of Earth and other planets. Eruptions that occurred beneath glaciers and ice sheets have produced distinctive geological features that yield insight to volcanic hazards or constraint of past glacier extent and palaeoenvironment. Glaciovolcanism is rarely observed directly, thus the knowledge base of this nascent field is largely restricted to information gleaned from the geological record. More recently, these observations have been supplemented with laboratory experiments and monitoring surveys that offer exciting potential to explore the physical parameters of glaciovolcanic processes. This joint-commission symposium aims to promote the interdisciplinary interaction between volcanologists and glaciologists with shared interests in glaciovolcanism. We invite contributions including, but not limited to: i) Field-based observations and interpretations of glaciovolcanic products and processes; ii) Experimental studies concerning the interaction between lava or pyroclasts with ice; iii) Glaciological observations and/or numerical modelling that concern volcanic influences on glacier mass balance or ice flow; iv) Palaeoglaciological studies from volcanic domains; v) Studies of causative links between deglaciation and volcanism; vi) Investigations that address climate and environmental change through glaciovolcanic studies; vii) Monitoring and mitigation of the hazards associated with ice-covered volcanoes on Earth; vii) Investigations aimed at understanding the signals generated by ice-covered volcanoes
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JV02 Dispersal of Volcanic Particulates in the Atmosphere and the Oceans (IAVCEI, IAMAS, IAPSO)
Convener(s): Silvia Massaro (Italy, IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Markku T. Kulmala (Finland, IAMAS), Nadia Lo Bue (Italy, IAPSO)
Description
Among the variety of volcanic processes, explosive eruptions are of particular interest for the scientific community, in the light of mitigating their impact on human lives and activities. In fact, the eruption columns formed during these episodes may represent a great hazard for our society. On the ground, livelihoods and infrastructures can be extensively damaged by the fall of pyroclasts of various sizes and shapes. In the air, volcanic clouds pose a serious threat to aviation safety with immediate and long-term effects on aircraft functionalities. In the oceans, volcanic particles may induce both pollution and fertilization, influencing the biology and chemistry of the water. Volcanic hazard assessment is therefore a fundamental step in the evaluation of the risk associated with the presence of ash particles into the atmosphere and the fall of tephra on the ground. In this session we welcome contributions combining numerical modelling, field observation and monitoring of volcanic ash clouds, supporting the assessment of their hazard.
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JV03 Hunga Tonga (IAVCEI, IAMAS, IASPEI, IAGA, IAG)
Convener(s): Roberto Sulpizio (Italy, IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Ronan Le Bras (Austria, IASPEI)
Description
The cataclysmic January 15 eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai presents a rare opportunity for researchers to explore new problems in volcanology, petrology and geochemistry, seismology, tsunamigenesis, infrasonics, and atmospheric science.
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JV04 Volcano Seismology (IAVCEI, IASPEI)
Convener(s): Jürgen Neuberg (UK, IASPEI/IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Luca de Siena (Germany, IASPEI)
Description
Analysis of seismic signal is of paramount importance at volcanoes, because they allow to investigate the internal structure of volcanoes and, at the same time, they provide us information about changes in the geophysical state of the volcano. W e welcome in this session any contribution related to seismolgy applied to volcanoes and volcanic systems.
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JV05 Strain Localisation and Seismic and Volcanic Hazards (IAVCEI, IASPEI, IAG)
Convener(s): Jürgen Neuberg (UK, IASPEI/IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Philippe Jousset (Germany, IASPEI)
Description
The strain localization is a fundamental process for improving our understanding of the basic physics of earthquake rupture. It is an nterdisciplinary problem that draws on physics, seismology, materials science, engineering, etc. We welcome in this session contributions aimed at highlighting the importance of strain localization in seismology or new techniques in the field.
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JV06 Geophysics of Solar System Planets (IAVCEI, IASPEI, IAG, IAGA)
Convener(s): Alessandro Bonforte (Italy, IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Kumiko Hori (Japan, IAGA), Philippe Lognonné (France, IASPEI)
Description
Observations of the distribution, form, and composition of planetary bodies, where subduction, erosion, and vegetation does not obscure surface features. In this session we invite all contributions relating to planetary geology and geophysics, encompassing remote sensing, geomorphology, in-situ or orbital geophysics, sample-based, experimental and numerical modelling, and Earth-analogue studies that utilize planetary data to provide a deeper understanding of this fundamental planetary process.
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JV07 The Architecture of the Lithosphere in Volcanic Regions (IAVCEI, IASPEI, IAGA, ILP)
Convener(s): Luca Caricchi (Switzerland, IAVCEI)Co-Convener(s): Christine Thomas (Germany, IASPEI), Gabi Laske (USA, IASPEI)
Description
The chemical and physical properties of the Earth's lithosphere controls geodynamic processes, the distribution of seismicity and the accumulation and migration of magma to the surface. We welcome research contributions on observations and modeling of lithosphere architecture in volcanic regions as well as the determination of relationships with seismicity, magma chemistry and its transfer to the surface.
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