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Back Physically Consistent Eddy-Resolving State Estimation and Prediction of the Coupled Pan-Artic Climate System at Daily to Interannual Time Scales Using the Regional Arctic Climate Model (RACM)

Fiscal Year 2012
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Maslowski, Wieslaw
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary The overall goal of this project is to address the long-term US Navy/DOD and national requirements to understand and predict arctic climate change (Task Force Climate Change, 2009). The research combines state-of-the-art regional modeling of sea ice, ocean, atmosphere and land hydrology to provide a system approach to advance the knowledge of and predictive capability for the pan-Arctic region. Two main objectives are to: (i) advance understanding of critical physical processes of importance to sea ice thickness I concentration distribution using a combination of forward modeling and state estimation techniques and (ii) investigate the relation between the upper-ocean heat content and sea ice volume change and its potential feedback in amplifying ice melt.
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