C53D:
Advances in Understanding Sea Ice Variability and Change in the Coupled Earth System II


Session ID#: 10896

Session Description:
The marine cryosphere is a complex system that has experienced some of the most extreme environmental changes on Earth, such as declining sea ice extent, warming surface ocean and air temperatures and ecosystem shifts. These influence the global surface energy and moisture budgets, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and feedbacks. To predict future changes in sea ice it is necessary to understand the complex and coupled interactions between ice, ocean, atmosphere, and land. Improved representation of coupled processes and feedbacks is expected to advance predictive skill of polar weather and climate models, and linkages with lower latitudes. Conveners solicit papers on observational, theoretical and numerical investigations that advance a system level understanding of processes that affect sea ice extent and thickness in the Arctic and Southern Oceans by studying the interaction between ice and at least one other component of the polar system (ocean, ecosystems, atmosphere, land).
Primary Convener:  Amy Solomon, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Roberts, Lost Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and James O Pope, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Amy Solomon, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3349 Polar meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Examining Differences in Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Change (Invited) (58339)
Son V Nghiem1, Ignatius G Rigor2, Pablo Clemente-Colon3, Gregory Neumann1 and Peggy Li1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)National Ice Center, Washington, DC, United States
The Role of Clouds in Linking the Summer AO and Arctic Dipole to Summer Arctic Sea Ice Extent Variability on Seasonal and Interannual Timescales (66377)
Bradley M Hegyi1, Yi Deng2 and Patrick C Taylor1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Atmospherically driven polar amplification in the ERA-Interim reanalysis and CMIP5 historical and RCP8.5 experiments (79572)
Cian Woods, Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden and Rodrigo Caballero, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
The Eurasian and Makarov Basins target changes in the Arctic Ocean (Invited) (79678)
Igor Polyakov1, Laurence Padman2, Andrey Pnyushkov1, Robert Rember1, Vladimir Ivanov3, Yueng Djern Lenn4 and EBM, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia, (4)Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Trapped Heat and Cooling Processes in the Arctic Ocean Surface Mixed Layer (74085)
Alice C Bradley, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, United States, Scott E Palo, University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States
The Impact of Multidecadal NAO Variations on Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport and Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice (79511)
Thomas L Delworth, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Fanrong Jenny Zeng, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
The Effect of Changes in Polar Sea Ice on Emissions of Marine Aerosols (Invited) (60098)
Patricia Matrai, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States and Albert Jerome Gabric, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia
Simulating Arctic clouds during Arctic Radiation- IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) (83638)
David H Bromwich1, Keith M Hines2 and Sheng-Hung Wang1, (1)Byrd Polar & Climate Rsrch Ctr, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH, United States

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