<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><div>Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Happy New Year!</div><div><br></div><div>Please consider submitting an abstract for the International Polar Year open science conference in Oslo, Norway, 8th-12th June 2010 (full info <a href="http://www.ipy-osc.no/)">http://www.ipy-osc.no/)</a>. The deadline for abstracts is 20th January and there are already a healthy number of abstracts submitted. I would be most grateful if you could circulate this call to colleagues.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a session, detailed below, on the links between the polar oceans and global climate.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to seeing you in Oslo!</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Karen</div><div><div class="introPart"><h1>T1-1 Polar oceans and their importance for global ocean circulation</h1></div><div class="byline"><p>The polar and sub-polar oceans play a vital role in climate, transforming warm, salty water into colder, fresher water that is exported equatorward in both bottom and intermediate layers. This session will discuss the processes by which water masses are changed through interaction with the atmosphere and with ice shelves, through sea ice melting and freezing, and through diapycnal and isopycnal mixing. The session is inspired by the efforts that have been made during the IPY and are still ongoing. An important issue is likely to be the documenting and understanding of changes observed in high-latitude water masses in recent decades. We particularly encourage young scientists and those from nations relatively new to polar ocean science to present their results. We will welcome abstracts on recent observational campaigns, synthesis efforts, analyses of historical or remotely sensed data, laboratory experiments, theory or numerical ocean/climate modelling.</p></div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>Professor Karen J. Heywood</div><div>Physical Oceanographer</div><div>School of Environmental Sciences</div><div>University of East Anglia</div><div>Norwich NR4 7TJ</div><div>-44-1603-592555</div><div><a href="mailto:k.heywood@uea.ac.uk">k.heywood@uea.ac.uk</a></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>