Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the following session that we will be convening at EGU 2010 in Vienna (2-7 May, 2010):

CL2.11
Tropical Climate: understanding past, present and future changes in mean state, variability and interactions

Conveners: Nerilie Abram, Erin McClymont and Erica Hendy

This session invites submissions from studies using proxy reconstructions and palaeoclimate modelling to examine how tropical climate has behaved in the past, including during the historical era, in order to better understand how it is set to evolve in a warming world. 

We welcome contributions from scientists studying tropical climate features such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (and El Nino-Modoki), the Indian Ocean Dipole, the tropical monsoons, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool.  This includes studies using proxy records such as corals, marine cores, lake cores, tree rings, speleothems and ice cores to reconstruct changes in the mean configuration, variability and teleconnections of tropical climate systems over historical to geological timescales.  We also encourage submissions that use palaeoclimate modelling to assess the response of tropical climate to changing boundary conditions and to improve the interpretation of proxy climate reconstructions.

Solicited presenter: Dr Guillaume Leduc, GPI Kiel University

Abstract submissions are now open and can be submitted to this session using the following link:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2707
 
General information on the EGU 2010 meeting can be found at http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/home.html

The deadline for abstract submission is 18th January 2010 (or 4th December 2009 for support applications).

We hope to see you in Vienna in 2010,
Nerilie, Erin and Erica.


Nerilie Abram
British Antarctic Survey
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Erin McClymont
Newcastle University
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Erica Hendy
University of Bristol
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