24-27 October 2017 | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

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The Forum for Arctic Ocean Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS) is an international effort to focus on enhancing collaboration and coordination among arctic marine and sea ice modelers, theoreticians and observationalists based on a set of activities starting from generating hypotheses, to planning research included both observations and modeling, and to finalizing analyses synthesizing major results from the field studies and coordinated numerical experiments. Registration is open for 2017 FAMOS school and workshop, with the school taking place on 24 October and the workshop on 25-27 October 2017.

A major theme of the FAMOS school is 'a hierarchy of arctic marine models: strengths, weaknesses, understanding, and prediction', with lectures on different models: analytical, 1D column, regional ice-ocean, regional coupled and global coupled models. In addition, the question of Arctic geoengineering will be raised. Is it time to start thinking about it? Is it possible?

The two-day FAMOS workshop will include sessions on 2017 sea ice highlights and sea ice/ocean predictions, reports of working groups conducting collaborative projects, large-scale arctic climate modeling (ice-ocean, regional coupled, global coupled), small (eddies) and very small (mixing) processes and their representation and/or parameterization in models, and new hypotheses, data sets, intriguing findings, proposals for new experiments and plans for 2018 FAMOS special volume of publications. There will also be related poster sessions.

To register please see the FAMOS website. The registration deadline is 15 August 2017.