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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>2012 SORCE Science Meeting – Call for Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#984806'>“Models of Spectral Irradiance Variability: Origins in the solar atmosphere and impacts on Earth’s atmosphere”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>September 18-19, 2012 </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>*</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'> Annapolis, Maryland<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/news/2012ScienceMeeting/index.html">http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/news/2012ScienceMeeting/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are pleased to announce the 2012 Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Science Meeting. We will examine modeling efforts to understand solar spectral irradiance (SSI) variability, in terms of both its origins in the solar atmosphere and its impact on Earth’s climate and atmosphere. Sessions will be organized around the following key questions: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Development of 3-D models of the solar atmosphere are rapidly progressing; how will these models further our understanding of the radiative properties of the solar atmosphere relative to static 1-D models?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Do small scale processes on the Sun scale to give irradiance variability, and do they give a reasonable explanation of changes that can occur on decadal or centennial scales that relate to climate change?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Does incorporating SSI data into GCMs improve the prediction skills of these models, and do different models produce similar results with the same solar input?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For both solar models and GCMs, how well do model predictions agree with observations over decadal time scales? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The format for this meeting consists of invited and contributed presentations in four theme sessions. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues. The 2012 Meeting will be held jointly with the NASA GSFC / CU LASP Sun Climate Research Center Symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>Deadlines</span></u></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>Abstract: June 29, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>Pre-Registration: Aug. 17, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#984806'>Hotel: Aug. 17, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Vanessa George<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>LASP, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>303-492-5486<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>