We welcome all submissions for presentations under the broad topics of polar remote sensing and polar cryospheric and climate system modeling. The key focus areas are:

1. Sea ice mapping and observations of sea-ice–climate–ocean processes and interactions; remote determination of snow cover on sea ice or sea-ice thickness; sea-ice models; past, present and future evolution of the Arctic or Antarctic sea-ice system; studies combining field and remote observations

2. Satellite or airborne observations of ice-sheet mass balance, glacier flow, ice-sheet accumulation, surface melting, melt ponds and streams; remote sensing of ice–ocean interaction and ocean circulation near the ice front; new observational techniques; historical records of ice flow and thickness

3. Model studies of ice-sheet and ice–ocean processes; polar climate models; coupled models of the polar atmosphere–ice–ocean–land system; predictive models of the evolution of the ice-sheet system or ice–ocean system over the next few decades to centuries

4. Trends in snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere; snow albedo, dust and soot in snow; new technologies for mapping snow cover; remote sensing (satellite and airborne) studies of permafrost, new methods of observation of permafrost

5. Calibration and validation studies of polar remote sensing data

6. Information on the polar cryosphere, especially sea ice extents, from early satellite or other remote sensing records; data rescue

7. Data management and informatics as they apply to polar remote sensing data, calibration–validation data sets