Chairs: Cecilia M Bitz, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Marilyn N Raphael, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Cecilia M Bitz, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-conveners: Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Marilyn N Raphael, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons: Marilyn N Raphael, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Characterizing dominant climatic oscillations in Antarctic Surface mass balance
Kishore Pangaluru, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States, Isabella Velicogna, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Tyler C Sutterley, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Impact of Freshwater Fluxes on Labrador Sea Dynamics in the Regional Arctic System Model
Saffia Hossainzadeh, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, Robert Osinski, The Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland and Slawek M Tulaczyk, Univ California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Is Arctic Transpolar Drift Predictable?
Vladimir A Alexeev, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and Vladimir Ivanov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia
A New Variable Resolution Sea-ice Model
Adrian K Turner1, Douglas Jacobsen1 and Elizabeth C Hunke2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
The Arctic in the Anthropocene: a Report from the National Academy of Sciences
Lauren M Everett, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States, Henry P Huntington, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Eagle River, AK, United States and Stephanie L Pfirman, Barnard College, Closter, NJ, United States
Seasonal Prediction of Arctic Sea Ice by a Linear Markov Model
Xiaojun Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States, Dake Chen, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Hangzhou, China and Cuihua Li, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States