The 16th Conference on Polar Meteor ology and Oceanography, sponsored by the American Meteorological S ociety and organized by the AMS Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Committe e, will be held 1-4 June, 2021. Due to continued uncertain ty and restrictions on travel associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, this c onference will take place entirely virtually. Please consider submitting an abstract to this virtual conference.
Pa pers are solicited on all aspects of polar meteorology and oceanography, in cluding but not limited to:
-Climate var
iability and change in the polar regions;
-Rapid environmental change
in the polar regions;
-Interactions among polar atmosphere-ocean-land-
ice components;
-Atmospheric, ocean, land ice, or sea ice physical pro
cesses;
-High latitude atmospheric and oceanic dynamics;
-Weather
and climate modelling in the polar regions;
-Connections of the polar
regions with the tropics and midlatitudes
Please submit your abstract electronically via the AMS conference website by 5 March 2021 (see the website for in structions). The abstract submission fee of $95 USD is charged at the time of submission and refundable only if the abstract is not accepted. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via email by mid April 2021.
The conference program will be optimized fo r a virtual platform. Sessions will take place during the same set of stand ard work hours for the contiguous United States (e.g., 12pm-5pm Eastern tim e / 11am-4pm Central time / 10am-3pm Mountain time / 9am-2pm Pacific time). Live oral and poster sessions will not overlap.
Submissions by students, early-career scientists, and underreprese nted groups will be prioritized, and limited funds in the form of registrat ion fee waivers are available to support participation. Application instruc tions will be provided when abstract acceptance notifications are sent.
For further program information please c
ontact the program chair, Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Department of Atm
ospheric Sciences, University of Washington (email: This email a
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