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Sixth Meeting of the UK Sea Ice Group

8:45	Registration
9:00	Welcome
Clare Postlethwaite Chair
9:10	Talk	Ann Keen. Sea Ice Modelling at the Met Office.
9:20	Talk	Adrian Turner. The CPOM coupled sea ice-ocean model.
9:40	Talk	Yevgeny Aksenov. Sea Ice-Ocean Modelling at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
10:00	Talk	Martin Vancoppenolle. On the role of salinity variations on the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice mass balance.
10:20	Posters and tea/coffee
Miguel Morales Maqueda Chair
11:20	Talk	Clare Postlethwaite, Miguel Morales Maqueda, Graham Tattersall, Jason Holt and Andrew Willmott. The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic Shelf Seas.
11:40	Talk	Ben Lishman, Daniel Feltham, Peter Sammonds, Alexander Wilchinsky, Steve Boon and Adrian Turner. Ice tank experiments with application to sea ice mechanics.
12:00	Talk	Sibylle Goebell. Comparison of coincident profiles of sea ice surface elevation and ice thickness derived from helicopter-borne laser altimetry and electromagnetic induction in the Arctic and Antarctic.
12:20	Talk	Rosemary Willatt. Field investigations of Ku-band radar penetration into snow cover on Antarctic sea ice.
12:40	Talk	John Fletcher. Radar Altimetry of Sea Ice.
13:00	Lunch
Andrew Willmott Chair
14:00	Talk	Jeff Ridley. Attribution of Arctic change.
14:20	Talk	Miguel Morales Maqueda. Investigation of wind-driven polynya dynamics with a mass and momentum conserving, one-dimensional model.
14:40	Talk	Nicholas Toberg. Arctic Sea Ice Thickness from Royal Navy Submarine Cruises in 2004 and 2007.
15:00	Talk	Katherine Giles. Basin-wide thinning of Arctic sea ice following the 2007 record ice extent minimum.
15:20	Talk	Peter Wadhams. Recent use of through-the-ice AUV to map the underside of sea ice.
15:40	Discussion and tea/coffee	How is polar science represented by the media? How can we forge better links between sea-ice modellers and observationalists? What is missing from UK-SIG meetings? Any other items for discussion.
16.30	Finish