Session outline
 
Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary(M)
Session Sub Category Intersection(IS)
Session ID M-IS19
Title Arctic and Antarctic Science and Future Plan
Short title Arctic/Antarctic Science and Future Plan
Convener Name Takuji Nakamura
Affiliation National Institute of Polar Research
Co-convener 1. Name Atsuko Sugimoto
Affiliation Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
Co-convener 2. Name Shin Sugiyama
Affiliation Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
International Symposium No request
Language Japanese
Scope Recently the global environmental change is of great interest for the governments and general public, as well as scientists on the earth and planets. The Arctic and the Antarctic regions significantly affect global environment and also provide invaluable information on its variation. In the Arctic region, for example, temperature increase due to the global warming is the largest on the globe. The climate change is most significantly emerging which causes change of ecology, human economic activity and life. On the other hand, very little is known on the response of the huge Antarctic ice sheet to the global warming, and hence a possible change in Antarctica on a global scale and its prediction are of greatest interest. Variations in the polar regions are not independent but connected through ocean and atmosphere circulations, and therefore it is necessary to consider them to be one unified system. Moreover, the Arctic and Antarctic regions are the best observation and/or investigation field for space/planetary sciences, atmospheric/hydrospheric sciences, and solid earth sciences, indicating that the polar regions are important windows for earth and planetary sciences. This session is devoted to a forum to present Antarctic and Arctic sciences in many different aspects, and discussion of sciences to be promoted as a master plan of the Science Council of Japan.
Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation
Invited papers