Fiscal Year	2007
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Oceanography
Investigator(s)	Maslowski, Wieslaw
Sponsor	National Aeronautics & Space Administration - Goddard Space Flight Center (Other-Fed)
Summary	The main science goals of this proposal are to address the global model limitations in representing Arctic sea ice and ocean conditions through identification of the primary physical and numerical requirements of future/improved GCMs; to understand the present and past several decades conditions in the Arctic sea ice and ocean with emphasis on variability in the total ice volume and freshwater content in the Arctic Ocean as well as on sea ice and freshwater fluxes into the North Atlantic; to predict future scenarios of seasonally/partially sea ice free Arctic Ocean in response to atmospheric forcing derived from Global/Regional Climate Model predictions and/or using a combination of extrapolated into the future Northern Hemisphere weather indices.
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