MAN AND CLIMATE IN THE 20TH CENTURY

International Conference
Wroclaw, 13th-15th June 2002

first circular

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the University of
Wroclaw
and the 100th anniversary of the birth of prof. Aleksander Kosiba

The Department of Meteorology and Climatology
Institute of Geography University of Wroclaw
and
Polish Geophysical Society

under the honourable patronage of the
Marshall of the Voivod of Lower Silesia

will organise in Wroclaw an international conference entitled:
"MAN AND CLIMATE IN THE 20TH CENTURY"
Conference topics:
Changeability of climate in the 20th century
Climate of natural and human impacted ecosystems
Social consequences of climate change
Changes in measurements and analysis techniques
Long term climatic data series
Contemporary global warming is a fact. It is also well known that human activity
is having an increasing impact on the natural environment. According to WMO and
ICCP reports the last decade of the 20th century represents the warmest since
instrumental observations began and probably also during the last millenium. The
observed warming is accompanied by changes in other climatic parameters and
related socio-economic transformations.
Until now there has been a lack of common opinion as to the rate of contemporary
climate change and concerning both its causes and results. The opinion that
human activity causes not only local but also regional and global climate
change has become widespread nowadays.
We think that the turn of the millenia is an appropriate time to attempt to
summarise the results of studies and research programmes undertaken to date.
With this in mind we have decided to organise the conference "Man and climate in
20th century".

TIMETABLE AND MAJOR DEADLINES:
31 December 2001: submission of participation
31 January 2002: second circular
31 March 2002: submission of abstracts
15 May 2002: third circular
13-15 June 2002: proceedings of the conference
13 June 2002: submission of full text presentations
31 December 2002: publication of full-text presentations

IMPORTANT NOTES
We kindly invite to declare your participation in the conference and encourage
participants to submit oral or poster presentations. Both oral and poster
presentations will be published in English in a special conference volume.
English and Polish will be official conference languages. The conference fee
(which doesn't include accommodation and meal costs) will amount to 150 USD.
Please find enclosed a submission form which should be completed and sent to the
conference address by 31 December 2001. We kindly request you to distribute the
information about the conference to those who may not have received this
circular but could be interested in participation.

CONFERENCE ADDRESS
University of Wroclaw
Department of Meteorology and Climatology
ul. Kosiby 8
51-670 Wroclaw
(add "Conference 2002" on the envelope)

phone: (48) (71) 3485441, 3729497 (dr Mietek Sobik)
fax: (48) (71) 3729498
e-mail: conf_2002@...
www.meteo.uni.wroc.pl

SUBMISSION FORM
Secretariat of the conference "Man and climate in the 20th century"
Send me please further information concerning the conference to be held in
Wroclaw 13-15 June 2002.
Name and surname: Title:
Affiliation:
Address:
Town and post code:
Tel./Fax: E-mail:
I intend (mark the right option):
to participate in the conference
to give an oral presentation
to present a poster
Topic of oral/poster presentation: