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Future SPARC and SPARC-related meetings

2003

04 November: Jim Angell 80^th Birthday Symposium, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
() A one-day symposium honouring and celebrating the career of Dr. James K. Angell.
Organizer: D. Seidel (dian.seidel@noaa.gov)

05 November: SPARC Workshop on Understanding Seasonal Temperature Trends in the Stratosphere, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
A one-day workshop organized by the SPARC Stratospheric Indicators of Climate Change initiative.
Organizing committee: V. Ramaswamy (V.Ramaswamy@noaa.gov) and W. Randel (randel@ucar.edu)

17-19 November: Workshop on Process-orientated validation of coupled chemistry-climate models, Grainau/Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Chair: N. Harris (Neil.Harris@ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk)

18-19 December: Joint UTLS Ozone and CWVC Workshop “Aerosols in the UTLS”, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK. Organizer (manager@utls.nerc.ac.uk): R. Grainger

2004

10-14 January: AGU Chapman Conference on Gravity Waves Processes and Parameterization, Kohala Coast, Hawaii, USA.
Chair: K. Hamilton (kph@soest.hawaii.edu)

15-20 March: 34^th Saas-Fee Advanced Course: "The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate", Davos, Switzerland
Chair: M. Lockwood

01-08 June: Quadrennial Ozone Symposium "Kos 2004", Kos, Greece.
Chair: C. S. Zerefos (ozone2004@geol.uoa.gr)

07-12 June: 3^rd Workshop on Long-term trends in the atmosphere, Sozopol, Bulgaria.
Chair: K. Georgieva (kgeorg@bas.bg)

18-25 July: 35^th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France. ()
Chair: M.-L. Chanin (chanin@aerov.jussieu.fr)

Interdisciplinary lectures (relevant of SPARC):

• 21 July: P. Crutzen “First ENVISAT Results”
• 23 July: C. Fröhlich “Solar Radiation and Climate”
  

SPARC co-sponsored sessions:

• A 1.1 - Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Earth's Surface, Troposphere, Stratosphere and Mesosphere. Chair: J. Burrows
• C.2.3 - Long-term Changes of Greenhouse Gases and Ozone and their Influence on the Middle Atmosphere. Chair: D. Chakrabarty
• C.2.5. – Structure and Dynamics of the Arctic and Antarctic of the Middle Atmosphere. Chair: M. Rapp
• D 2.1/C2.2/E 3/1 - Influence of the Sun's Radiation and Particles on the Earth's Atmosphere and Climate. Chair: J. Pap
  

01-06 August: 3_^rd SPARC General Assembly 2004, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria (BC), Canada.
Chairs: A. Ravishankara (ravi@al.noaa.gov) and T. Shepherd (tgs@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca)

• Stratospheric climate and indicators of climate change
• Stratospheric data assimilation
• Transport and mixing in the stratosphere and between stratosphere and troposphere
• Gravity-wave processes and their parameterization
• Stratospheric and upper tropospheric water vapour
• Chemistry, radiation, aerosols and dynamics in the UT/LS
• Chemistry-climate modelling of the stratosphere
  

A particular emphasis for this General Assembly will be chemistry-climate coupling.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 31, 2004.

09-12 August: 12th SPARC SSG Meeting, Canada.

04-09 September: 8^th International IGAC Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand
Chairs: U. Lohmann (ulrike@fizz.phys.dal.ca) and P. Rasch (pjr@ucar.edu)
The focus of the 2004 IGAC Conference will be Atmospheric Chemistry in the Environment