Chairs: Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Chris Polashenski, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners: Chris Polashenski, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States; USACE-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK, United States
Co-conveners: Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Donald K Perovich, USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Donald K Perovich, Thayer School of Engineering,Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Sub-Regional Sea Ice Preferences of Pacific Walrus in the Bering Sea Using SAR Data
Alexander Sacco1, Andrew R Mahoney1, Hajo Eicken1, Mark A Johnson2 and Carleton Ray3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Marine Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Arctic sea ice extent and Greenland ice sheet surface climate co-variability investigated with self-organizing maps and singular value decomposition
John Mioduszewski1, Asa K Rennermalm1, Julienne Christine Stroeve2,3, Marco Tedesco4 and David A Robinson1, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University College London, Centre for Polar Observations and Modelling, London, United Kingdom, (4)CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Issues with Moisture Flux Estimation in the Arctic and Changes in the Flux Between 2003-2014
Linette N Boisvert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dong Liang Wu, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Timo P Vihma, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland and Joel Susskind, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A Wind-Driven, Hybrid Latent and Sensible Heat Coastal Polynya at Barrow, Alaska
Daisuke Hirano1, Yasushi Fukamachi2, Eiji Watanabe3, Katsushi Iwamoto1,4, Andrew R Mahoney5, Hajo Eicken5, Daisuke Shimizu1, Kay I Ohshima2 and Takeshi Tamura1, (1)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Optical Measurements and Analysis of Sea Ice in the Chukchi Sea during the Onset of 2014 Melt
Alexandra E Arntsen1, Carolyn Stwertka1, Chris Polashenski2,3 and Donald K Perovich3, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK, United States, (3)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States
Pressure Ridge Keel Shapes in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Vincent Alfred Valenti1, Andrew R Mahoney2, Andrew Metzger1 and Hajo Eicken3, (1)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
A Possible Correlation between the Surface Temperature and Thickness of Arctic Sea Ice
Rhett B Herman1, Corey Roadcap1, Jordan Lynn Eagle1, Sarah B Montgomery1, Cameron Baumgardner1, Melissa Carrie Brett1 and Daniel Blake2, (1)Radford University, Radford, VA, United States, (2)Southwest VA Governors School, Pulaski, VA, United States