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Dear Colleagues This is a message to draw your attention about the approaching of the deadline for the abstract submission for the Radiocarbon 2012 conference to be held in Paris in July 2012 (details are reported at the end of the message or can be found at the url: http://www.radiocarbon2012.com/). For this year the Scientific/Organizing committee decided to open this conference also to applicative sectors. With this message I want to inform you about the opening of a specific session about the application of modeling techniques to disentangle processes characterizing the climate system and/or the C cycle with the following outline: Radiocarbon, the cosmogenic and anthropogenic (bomb carbon) radionuclide, is widespread in all the environmental compartments being naturally involved in the global carbon cycle. Due to its nature, 14C preserves the potential to serve as process tracer and/or chronometer. Since its discovery and the birth of the radiocarbon dating methodology, modelling approaches have been widely applied to disentangle the physical mechanisms governing its production and observed distributions. Over the last decades, with the advent of the earth and climate change sciences, radiocarbon became a preferential tool for the study of dynamical processes in climate and carbon cycle. For the carbon cycle, this includes interactions with the physical climate system, and this has been investigated using a variety of modelling tools and methods. This session aims to attract contributions applying modelling approaches to the study of processes characterizing the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere and fluxes within and between these compartments. Contributions quantifying natural changes and the impact of anthropogenic actions on the contemporary and past climate system are also particularly welcome. Keywords 14C production modelling, direct/inverse modelling for global cycle, past and contemporary climate change I invite you all to spread this information to anybody else can be interested Thank you for your kind attention and collaboration, I hope to see you in Paris On the behalf of the session conveners (R. Muscheler (SWE), K. Rodgers (USA)) Fabio Marzaioli, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Second University of Naples Faculty of Sciences & Environmental Sciences Department Centre for Isotopic Research on Cultural and Environmental heritage Tel. +390823274814 fax. +390823274605
