Global Glacier Modeling Workshop, Oslo, 10-12 February 2025

Scope of the workshop

This workshop aims to bring together global glacier modelers, providing a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration.

The focus will be on modeling glaciers (outside the ice sheets) on a global or regional scale, i.e. covering at least one entire region of the 19 Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI). Themes include any aspect of large-scale modeling of glaciers outside the ice sheets:

1. Simulations of global/regional-scale glacier mass balance and evolution including projections until 2100 and beyond.
2. Sensitivity of large-scale glacier evolution models to climate and other input data, and model parameterization choices.
3. Advances in modeling climatic mass balance (accumulation, melt, refreezing), frontal ablation and ice dynamics in large-scale glacier evolution models.
4. Advances in calibrating and validating large-scale glacier evolution models including process-based or machine-learning models.
5. Coupling of global glacier evolution models to global hydrological or climate models.
6. Large-scale datasets relevant for global glacier modeling.

Organization

• Participants will have the opportunity to present their research on the listed topics through oral presentations or posters. Oral presentations are primarily reserved for presentations aligned closely with the workshop themes (see above).
• The agenda will be designed to allow ample time for networking and in-depth discussions (including group break-out sessions on selected topics), fostering connections and collaboration.
• A Zoom link will be provided to registered online-only participants; however. Zoom attendees will not have the opportunity to present or ask questions.

GlacierMIP meeting

An (open) business meeting of the Global Glacier Modeling Intercomparison Project (GlacierMIP), a Targeted Activity of the Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC) will be held on 12 February, where we will discuss the next phase of GlacierMIP.

Anybody interested in large-scale glacier modelling is welcome to attend the meeting. Zoom attendance will be possible. A fourth day (13 Febr.) is reserved for direct collaboration discussions/meetings.

Registration

   Please register here for the workshop

There is no separate abstract submission. When filling out the registration form, you can indicate if you want to give a presentation and enter a title.

Deadline for registration was 31 January 2025.

If you intend to join in person you also need to pay a non-refundable registration fee here.

• 600 NOK (approx. 60 Euros) before or on 1 December 2024.
• 1000 NOK thereafter.

Note: In-person registration is only valid upon full payment of the registration fee. Remote participation is free but you need to register (in order to receive a zoom link).

Venue and catering

The meeting will be held at Toppsenteret on the Blindern campus of the University of Oslo located between the subway stations Blindern and Forskningsparken (the latter is slightly closer) (Subway (T-bane) lines 4 and 5, 4-5 stops northwest of Oslo S (central station).

>>> Find a map and description how to get to the workshop venue here (pdf).

The regisration fee includes coffee/tea/snacks throughout the meeting, lunch on all three days, and a workshop dinner on the first day.

Program

The workshop will start on 10 February at 9 am and concludes with the open GlacierMIP business meeting on 12 February (1-3:15 pm). So far there are approximately 45 registered participants. Fabien Maussion and David Rounce are invited keynote speakers.

>>> Find the workshop program here (pdf, updated version 6 Feb).

Sponsors

The workshop on global glacier modeling is sponsored by the:

• World Climate Research Program’s Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC) of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)
• Research Council of Norway (RCN).
• ERC-2022-Advanced Grant 'Past and Future High-resolution Global Glacier Mass Changes (GLACMASS) by the European Research Council (ERC).

Conveners: 

• Regine Hock, University of Oslo, Norway (regineho @ uio.no)
• Ben Marzeion, University of Bremen, Germany
• Harry Zekollari, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Local organization committee: Regine Hock, Inger Bij de Vaate (main organizers);  Kristoffer Aalstad, Henning Åkesson, Davor Dundovic, Greg Guillet, Dylan Kreynen, Pragay Shourya Moudgil, Ruitang Yang, Yeliz Yilmaz.

Practical information

Participants will have to organize their own housing. Campus housing is unfortunately not available. There are many hotels between campus and downtown Oslo (e.g., Thon Hotel Slottsparken, where some participants have booked). Travel grants are not available.

Please bring a name tag (e.g., from another conference; we won´t provide name tags), and if possible, also a coffee/tea mug.

Airport Gardermoen to Oslo

From the airport you need to take a train to the central train station (Oslo S). Turn to the right when getting out of customs and walk about 50 m where you can buy the train ticket to Oslo at a counter or ticket machine. There are two independent companies selling tickets side by side:

• Flytoget (flight train), fastest, ca. 18 minutes, ~252 NOK
• “Normal” train by vy.no, ca. 23 minutes, ~120 NOK. This train may actually get you faster to Oslo especially during day time, because it goes more often. Trains R10, R11 and L12 go to Oslo and depart from track 4 at the airport. The ticket is also valid for further immediate public transportation in Oslo (the flytoget ticket is not).

You can also buy the tickets online (vy.no or flytoget). From the ticket counter/machines it is a 2 minute walk to the platform (down the escalator to the left).

There are no trains after around 0:30 am. Then there are night buses to downtown roughly every hour stopping at many locations throughout town.

Public transportation in Oslo

Note, Norway is largely a cash-free society and there are only very few places where you can buy public transportation tickets (only from ruter offices, e.g., at central station or subway station Majorstuen). There are no ticket machines anywhere in town. Best to download the ruter app where you can buy single tickets, 24-hour or 7-day passes (Zone 1 is sufficient if you stay in town, covering most of Oslo). When staying 3 days or more the 7-day pass is typically the best deal.

Come earlier or stay longer and combine glacier modeling with skiing !

Oslo is a fantastic destination for skiing, particularly in February when snow conditions are ideal. The city offers a unique combination of both cross-country skiing (hundreds of km of marked and groomed ski trails) and downhill skiing (at Oslo Winter Park at Tryvann). Trails and skilifts are easily accessible by subway/bus from the city center.

Welcome to the Global Glacier Modeling Workshop in Oslo in February 2025!