MARCDAT-IV
Fourth International Workshop on the Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data
Overview:
The Fourth International Workshop on the Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data (MARCDAT-IV) will be held at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK between the 18th and 22nd July 2016. The workshop will be arranged around the following themes:
- Data homogenization (benchmarking, bias adjustments, step change analysis, metadata)
- Quantification and estimation of uncertainty
- Data management, recovery and reprocessing (digitisation efforts and reprocessing of previously digitised data)
- Reconstructing past climates
- Integrating In-situ / satellite data sources
- Consistency of the climate across domain boundaries (land, ocean, surface, subsurface, atmosphere)
- The role of ICOADS and applications of marine climate data
- Review of the 10-year action plan
This workshop is free to attend but participants must be registered.
Time table:
The programme and book of abstracts is now available from the link below.
MARCDAT-IV Programme and book of abstracts
Conference dinner:
The conference dinner will be held at the La Tavernetta restaurant in Southampton on the evening of the 20th July. The dinner will be self funded, with a choice of 1, 2, or 3 courses from a fixed menu. Bookings are being managed via our online booking system (https://conference.noc.ac.uk/product/marcdat4-workshop-dinner-20th-july-2016). Further details are available from this page, including the menu choices.