Programme

PROVISIONARY PROGRAMME

 PREVIEW ON ABSTRACT BOOK

26 MAY : Registration will be possible in the Mercure and the Relais. Times will be confirmed)

27 MAY : The components of climate (Auditorium SUD 09 building 14 on the map of Louvain-la-Neuve )

(registration will also be possible during the symposium at auditorium SUD 05, just next to the SUD 09)     

9:00 : Welcoming words by M. Crucifix

Chair and introduction : Tim Lenton (UEA, UK)

9:10 Martin Claussen (Max-Planck Institüt, Hamburg) : Vegetation - Climate Feedbacks
9:50 Fortunat Joos (Unversität Bern) : Atmospheric CO2 and the Carbon Cycle:Key Components of the Earth System

10:30 : Coffee Break

Chair : L. A. Mysak (McGill University, Canada)

10:50 : P. Huybrechts (VUB) : Modeling late-Quaternary continental glaciation
11:30 : G. Munhoven (ULg) : Glacial-interglacial pCO2 Variations and the Rain Ratio Hypothesis: Implications for Sedimentary Carbonate Preservation/Dissolution Processes

12:00 : P. Langebroek (University Bremen) : Antarctic ice-sheet response to orbital variations and atmospheric CO2 in the Middle Miocene

12 : 30 Lunch

13: 30 Poster Session

Chair : T. Fichefet (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve)

14:35 : Jean-Claude Duplessy (LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette) : Impact of insolation variations on the ocean behaviour during the last interglacial period
15:20 : Q. Yin (UCL - ASTR) : A threshold in ice volume to reinforce the East Asian summer monsoon during a cool interglacial?

15:50 : H. Gallée : Validation of a regional climate model over the Antarctic plateau

17 : 00 Academic tribute to André Berger (Auditorium SUD19) followed by a reception and the conference dinner.

28 MAY : The data (Auditorium SUD09)

9:00 : The ocean record : Chair and foreword : Jim Hays (University of Virginia)

9:20 : Lorraine Lisiecki (Boston University) : The LR04 benthic d18O stack and its implications for glacial cycle dynamics
10:00 : Michael Sarnthein (Kiel Unversity) : Pliocene changes in the North Atlantic leading to the Quaternary-style climates

10:30 : Coffee

10:50 : P. Wang (Tongji University): Long Eccentricity Signal in Oceanic Carbon Reservoir

11:20 : P. Pestiaux (UCL) : Frequency Domain System Analysis of Isotopic Paleoclimatic Records in relation with Insolation Orbital Forcing.

12:00 : K. Kissel : Temporal variability of the sedimentary magnetic properties off southeastern Mindanao.

12:30 Lunch and Poster session

14:00 : The terrestrial record: Chair and introduction : G. Kukla (LDEO, Columbia)

14:15 : Denis-Didier Rousseau (ENS, Paris) : The loess series, from one climate state to another
14:55 : Guo Zenghtang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) : Neogene loess-soil sequences in northern China and Asian paleoclimate

15:30 : Coffee

16:00 The ice core record : Chair and introduction : Jean Jouzel (CNRS, Saclay, France)

16:15 : Dominique Raynaud (LGGE, Grenoble) : The greenhouse gas and climate record from ice cores : leads and lags

17:00 : Eric Wolff (BAS, Cambridge) : The proximal cause of glacial terminations
17:40 : Roland Souchez (Université Libre de Bruxelles) : Ice-core evidence of Environmental conditions during Greenland Ice-sheet inception and development

18:00 : END

19:00 : TOWNHALL DISCUSSION MEETING (Chair : Throsten Kiefer, PAGES) : Towards SPECMAP-2 ? (Venue TBC)

29 MAY Modelling and predicting glacial-interglacial cycles (Auditorium)

9:00 : Chair and Introduction : A Berger

9:15 : M.F. Loutre (UCL) : The astronomical forcing
9:45 : Peter Huybers (Harvard University) : Timing of Pleistocene climate changes

10:25 : Coffee

10:45 : A. Antico (Mc Gill University) : Response of the atmosphere-ocean-sea ice climate system during the Pliocene to Milankovitch forcing.

11:20 : A. Abe-Ouchi (Tokyo University) : TBA

12:00 : M. Van Geet (ONDRAF) How to treat climate evolution in the assessment of the long-term safety of disposal facilities for radioactive waste : examples from Belgium

12:30 : Lunch

14:00 : A. Ganopolski (PIK - Potsdam) : Modelling glacial-interglacial cycles
14:40 : N. Zeng (University of Maryland) : Quasi-100 ky glacial-interglacial cycles triggered by subglacial burial carbon release

15:10 : P. Köhler (AWI - Bremerhaven) : The carbon cycle during the Mid Pleistocene Transition: The Southern Ocean Decoupling Hypothesis

15:40 : D. Verschuren  (Royal Universiy Gent) : Half-precessional climate forcing, megadroughts, and high-latitude influences on the moisture-balance history of equatorial East Africa
16:10 : Closing remarks