Special Symposium: Assessments of Global Environmental Change (IAMAS and PAGES)

First Convener: Dahe Qin, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group I, and Administrator, China Meteorological Administration, 46 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian, Beijing 100081, China; Tel: +86-10-6840-6662; Fax: +86-10-6217-4797; qdh@cma.gov.cn

Co-convener:

Michael MacCracken, President of IAMAS, and Climate Institute, 6308 Berkshire Drive, Bethesda MD 20814 USA; Tel/Fax: +1-301-564-4255; mmaccrac@comcast.net 

Eystein Jansen, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Dep. of Earth Science, Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no

Olga Solomina, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; olgasolomina@yandex.ru

Monday, 8 August 

19:00-19:20

Dahe Qin

Chinese Meteorological Administration: Assessing Climate Change: A Current Perspective on Progress and Directions in Preparation of the IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report

19:20-20:40

Guus J.M. Velders

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP): New Perspectives on Ozone and Climate Emerging from the IPCC Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System

19:40-20:00

Aiguo Dai

National Center for Atmospheric Research: Recent Trends in Water Vapor, Clouds, Precipitation, Streamflow and Soil Moisture

20:00-20:20

Jiawen Ren & Dahe Qin

Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences: Observed Changes in Snow and Ice

20:20-20:40

William Collins

 National Center for Atmospheric Research: Radiative Forcing by Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases: Comparison of IPCC Models

20:40-21:00 Eystein Jansen BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH AND DEPT. OF EARTH SCIENCE, UNIV. OF BERGEN: PALEOCLIMATES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY: EMERGING CHALLENGES AND ISSUES OF RELEVANCE FOR THE NEXT IPCC ASSESSMENT

21:00-21:20

Keith Dixon

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: Views and News from the IPCC Climate Model Simulations Workshop

21:20-21:40

Xiangdong Zhang International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks: Arctic Sea Ice Changes and the Underlying Physical Mechanisms: Multi-model Investigations in the Framework of IPCC AR4

21:40-22:00

Martin Manning

IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit: The IPCC Workshop on Risk and Uncertainty