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- IPY 2012
[11.5.2012]
International Polar Year conference 'From Knowledge to Action', Montreal, 22-27 April 2012: the THOR project was there!
Flyers about the project were available at the booth of the European Commission. THOR scientists presented papers and posters in different sessions. Here is the complete set of presentations and posters.
Happy reading!
- Svein Oesterhus (UiB-Norway): Long termn variations of the ice shelf water in the Southern Weddell sea (abstract and presentation)
- Bogi Hansen (HAV- Faroe Islands): The Faroe Bank Channel Overflow has Remained Stable for the Last 15 years (abstract and presentation)
- Steingrimur Jonsson (MRI- Iceland):
Variability and Forcing of the Flow Of Water Masses on the North Icelandic Shelf (abstract and presentation)
Is the Oceanic Heat Transport with Atlantic Water towards the Arctic Changing? (abstract and presentation)
- Bert Rudels (FMI- Finland): The Influence of the Barents Sea Inflow Branch on the Arctic Ocean Circulation and Water Mass Transformation Processes (abstract and presentation)
- Christophe Herbaut, Marie-Noelle Houssais and Dorotea Iovino (UPMC-LOCEAN - France): Variability of the Arctic Fresh Water Reservoir and Its Link to the Atmosphere (poster)
- Dorothea Iovino (UPMC-LOCEAN- France): Impact of the Nordic Seas mesoscale dynamics on the exchanges over the Greenland Scotland Ridge to the Atlantic MOC (poster)
Website: http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/
- Day 2-Gerard, Kerstin, Nuno, Jürgen, Karin, Steingrimur
- Day 3-Svein, Toby, Gerard, Nuno
[10.5.2012]
CT3 meeting on the island of Texel 7-9 May 2012
The meeting saw the contributions of UiB/UniRES, GEOMAR, HAV, MRI, NIOZ, UHAM and NERC. The scientific presentations are available in the Members' only area (CT3 Meetings) on the following topics: "Variability and forcing of the flow of water masses on the north Icelandic shelf", "Is the oceanic heat transport towards the Arctic changing?", "The Faroe Bank Channel overflow has remained stable for the last 15 years", "Variations of the Denmark strait overflow", "Intra-seasonal variability of the DWBC in the western subpolar North Atlantic", "The thermohaline variability of overflow waters in the northern North Atlantic Ocean", "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux Monitoring Array at 26.5°N", "Has the strength of the circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean changed in the last 50 years?", "The overflow in the western channel of the Iceland-Faroe Ridge"
The final deliverables of this core theme are expected on time (project month 48= November 2012), with some more integrations for the D26 "Data set and entrainment estimates from DS experiments" which was already submitted to COMM in the last reporting period. Deliverables for project month 48 are D36, D37 and D38 (see the table of deliverables). These will be delivered in time. Deadline for submitting the reports to the project office is (indicatively) 30 August 2012. Templates are already available in the Members' only area.
[10.5.2012]
6th GEO European Projects’ Workshop (GEPW-6), Rome, 7-8 May 2012
The objective of the event was to bring all those interested in and actively contributing to the GEOSS from all over Europe to present their work and actively discuss how Europe can contribute to GEO. THOR was invited to provide its contribution.
A copy of the presentation delivered by Laurent Mortier of UPMC is available for download here.
Final agenda of the event: www.earthobservations.org/documents/meetings/201205_gepw6/20120507_08_gepw6_final_%20agenda.pdf
[10.5.2012]
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[4.5.2012]
Deadline for call for papers extended to 31 May!
Knowing that some of you have been very busy in EGU, IPY and other big conferences lately, we are happy to meet your requests and to postpone the deadline for presenting papers/posters for the final joint conference of EU FP7 THOR and the BMBF Nordatlantik projects.
The NEW deadline for the submission of papers and posters is now 31 May 2012.
Please register using the online form: http://www.eu-thor.eu/Final-conference.2060.0.html
[09.5.2012]
Calls for proposals Theme 6 "Environment, incl. climate change"
The timeplan for the Work Programme 2013 is very tight. A first draft of the Work Programme has been circulating already in March 2012, a second and final draft should be ready by now. The last calls of the FP7 are foreseen to open this summer, in July, probably in the first half of the month. These last calls of the FP7 will follow the 2-stage approach. Though the Work Programme is for the year 2013, the calls under this Work programme will be launched in 2012. Some info-days are being organised at national level by the national contact points (Ref: German National Contact Point newsletter NKS Umwelt 22.3.2012)
The Commission has organized an info-day for this call on 11 June 2012 in Brussels.
[10.4.2012]
THOR website restyled
We have recently re-styled the THOR website, and in particular the Members' only area: new pages have been prepared to archive materials, articles, publications according to the core theme, and to collect project documentation and publications as an archive. Additionally, the templates for the WP reports and the deliverable reports of the 3rd and final period are published online in this section (Toolkit). Have a look... For accessing this area, a login is required.
[2.4.2012]
Consultive workshop Seas-era EUFP7 ERA-NET
Detlef Quadfasel took part in the consultive workshop on the document “A draft Marine Research Plan for the European Atlantic Sea Basin”, organised by Seas-Era in Ostend (BE) on 28-29 February 2012. His presentation and abstract are available in the Members' only area
Link to the project Seas- Era
[29.3.2012]
Seminar at MPI-M, Hamburg 27 March 2012
Title: North Atlantic climate and ocean circulation variability during the last millennium in paleo reconstructions and simulations
Authors: Johann Jungclaus (MPI-M), Katja Lohmann (MPI-M), Ulysses Ninnemann (UiB), Kikki Kleiven (UiB), Juliette Mignot (UPMC-LOCEAN) and Odd Helge Otterå(UiB)
Abstract and full presentation can be downloaded in the Members' only area
[7.3.2012]
CT2 Workshop, Paris, 30-31 May 2012
Topic: Hosing experiments intercomparison project- Results of the new simulations
Venue: LOCEAN/IPSL, 4th floor of the tower 45-55, door 417, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
Organisation: Didier Swingedouw IPSL/UPMC and project office, Chiara Bearzotti
Partners participating: MPI-M, UiB, UPMC, DMI, GEOMAR, NERC, MET O, UHAM
Agenda: download
