C013
Coupled-system Processes of the Central Arctic Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models
Coupled-system Processes of the Central Arctic Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Ocean System: Harnessing Field Observations and Advancing Models
Session ID#: 160657
Session Description:
The central Arctic coupled environmental system is changing rapidly, with dramatic potential implications for climate, weather, ecosystems, and society. Thinner and less extensive sea ice can impact the flow of heat, the exchange of gases, seasonal melt and freeze of ice, ice dynamics, light available for biological productivity, and many other related physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem processes. Importantly, many of these changes and processes are interdependent. In this session we welcome field, laboratory, remote sensing, and modeling studies that examine all aspects of the changing central Arctic coupled system, especially including processes that cut across the atmosphere, sea ice, snow, and ocean. Submissions are encouraged that incorporate cross-disciplinary research topics, examine interseasonal linkages, conduct observation-model synthesis, and/or bridge the many scales between in situ observations and large scale remote-sensing and modeling. Contributions from recent central Arctic field campaigns like MOSAiC are particularly relevant.
Co-Organized:
- A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
3349 Polar meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Primary Convener: Matthew Shupe, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, Amy Solomon, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Jessie Creamean, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
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