HE14B:
New Insights into the Beaufort Gyre of the Arctic Ocean: Scientific Questions, Observing Technologies, and Modeling Capabilities I Posters

Session ID#: 84248

Session Description:
One of the foci of the Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observing Synthesis (FAMOS) project is improving Arctic regional ice-ocean models and understanding of physical processes regulating variability of Arctic environmental conditions based on synthesis of observations and model results. The Beaufort Gyre centered in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean is an ideal phenomenon and natural laboratory for application of modeling capabilities to resolve numerous scientific questions related to the origin and variability of this climatological flywheel and freshwater reservoir of the Arctic Ocean. The unprecedented volume of data collected in this region enables us to describe the state and changes in this environmental system at synoptic, seasonal and interannual time scales. The in situ and remote sensing data characterizing oceanic hydrography, sea surface heights, ice drift, concentration and thickness, ocean circulation, and biogeochemistry are publicly available for comparison with models or assimilation for historic reconstructions and establishing initial conditions for prediction systems. This session invites multidisciplinary contributions from observers, theoreticians, numerical modelers and engineers to present and discuss new methodologies in observing, modeling and analysis and to shed light on the mechanisms regulating the Beaufort Gyre dynamics as it transitions to a new state under different climate forcing.
Index Terms:

4513 Decadal ocean variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Primary Chair:  Andrey Yu Proshutinsky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  John C Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, United States and Michael D DeGrandpre, University of Montana, Chemistry Department, Missoula, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States
Moderators:  Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States and John C Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Michael D DeGrandpre, University of Montana, Chemistry Department, Missoula, MT, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Abnormally Surface freshening and halocline deepening during 2006-2012 in the Canada Basin associated with Arctic Oscillation (639074)
Jihai Dong1, Yu Liu2, Meibing Jin3 and Changming Dong1, (1)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, China, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Changing Sources and Pathways of Freshwater Accumulation in the Arctic Ocean (636914)
Changsheng Chen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, United States, Yu Zhang, Shanghai Ocean University, College of Marine Sciences, Lingang, China, Robert C Beardsley, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Sylvia T Cole, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, Guoping Gao, Shanghai Ocean University, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai, China and Huichan Lin, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States
 
Circulation in the vicinity of Mackenzie Canyon from a year-long mooring array (639450)
Robert S Pickart1, Peigen Lin2, Francis Wiese3, David B Fissel4, Ed Ross4, Jeremy Kasper5, Frank Bahr6, Daniel J Torres7, Jeff K. O'Brien8, Humfrey Melling9, Keath Borg4 and Rowenna Gryba10, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Oceanography, Shanghai, China, (3)Stantec, Climate Solutions, Anchorage, United States, (4)ASL Environmental Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)WHOI, Woods Hole, United States, (8)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (9)Inst Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada, (10)Stantec Consulting, Burnaby, BC, Canada
 
Comparison of High-Resolution Model Output in the Beaufort Gyre (646599)
Elizabeth Douglass, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Patrick J Hogan, Stennis Space Ctr, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Alan J Wallcraft, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Exploring the role of the “Ice-Ocean governor” and mesoscale eddies in the equilibration of the Beaufort Gyre: lessons from observations (651368)
Jeffery R Scott1, Gianluca Meneghello1, Edward Doddridge2, John C Marshall3 and Jean-Michel Campin4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (4)M.I.T./EAPS, Cambridge, United States
 
Impacts of Spatially-Varying Vertical Mixing in an Arctic Ocean Model (650106)
Ben O'Connor1, Melanie Chanona1, Stephanie Waterman1, Jeffery R Scott2 and Shayna MacTaggart1, (1)University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Preliminary results from the first deployments of the Dynamic Ocean Topography Buoy: in-situ observations of sea surface height in ice-covered seas. (648899)
John Guthrie1, James Morison2, Benjamin Brand1, Bruce Joseph Haines3, Mike Kenney1, Ronald Kwok4, Tim McGinnis1 and Nicolas Michel-Hart1, (1)University of Washington, Applied Physics Lab, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Polar Science Ctr, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Sea surface pCO2 and ice concentration in the Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean (654338)
Michael D DeGrandpre, University of Montana, Chemistry Department, Missoula, MT, United States, Wiley Evans, Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, BC, Canada, Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States, Richard A Krishfield, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States and Michael Steele, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States
 
Shelfbreak downwelling in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea (639304)
Nicholas Foukal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Robert S Pickart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Peigen Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Oceanography, Shanghai, China
 
Simulating the Sea Ice Carbon Pump in the Beaufort Gyre (641818)
Benjamin Richaud1, Katja Fennel1, Eric Oliver1, Mike DeGranpre2, Timothee Bourgeois1, Youyu Lu3 and Xianmin Hu3, (1)Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)University of Montana, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
 
Summer Net community production (NCP) and CO2 flux evolutions in the western Arctic Ocean (652896)
Zhangxian Ouyang1, Wenli Zhong2, Di Qi3, Liqi Chen3 and Wei-Jun Cai4, (1)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, (3)Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen, China, (4)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States
 
The Atlantic Water Boundary Current in the Chukchi Borderland and southern Canada Basin (643998)
Jianqiang Li1, Robert S Pickart2, Peigen Lin2, Kevin R Arrigo3, Laurie W Juranek4, James H Swift5, Frank Bahr6 and Yang Xiao-Yi7, (1)United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (5)UCSD/SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
 
The Impact of Submesoscale Dynamics on Arctic Freshwater Fronts (643842)
Marion S Alberty1,2, Sonya Legg1, Robert Hallberg3, Jennifer A MacKinnon4, Janet Sprintall4,5, Matthew H Alford6,7, John Mickett8 and Elizabeth Fine9, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)NOAA Geophyscial Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (6)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (7)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (8)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (9)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
The warming of the Chukchi slope through the Barrow Canyon outflow in the 2016-2017 winter (641159)
Satoshi Kimura1, Jonaotaro Onodera1, Motoyo Itoh2, Takashi Kikuchi1, Shigeto Nishino3, Yusuke Kawaguchi4, Eiji Watanabe1 and Naomi Harada1, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, ARRAY(0xe7a5e04), Japan, (3)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan, (4)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
 
Validation of ICESat-2 satellite with hydrographic measurements derived from SIZRS flights (638439)
Shawn Glenn Gallaher, US Naval Academy, Oceanography, Annapolis, MD, United States, James Morison, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Ron Kwok, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Roger Andersen, University of Washington, Polar Science Center - Applied Physics Lab, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Variability of the Beaufort Gyre freshwater content in 2003-2018 from observations and model results (494011)
Andrey Yu Proshutinsky1, Richard A Krishfield2, Mary-Louise Timmermans3, William James Williams4, John Toole5, Sarah Zimmermann6, Elena Golubeva7, Gennady Platov7, Eiji Watanabe8, Georgy Manucharyan9, Thomas W. K. Armitage10 and Dmitry S Dukhovskoy11, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States, (4)Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences, BC, Canada, (7)ICMMG, Novosibirsk, Russia, (8)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan, (9)California Institute of Technology, Environmental Sciences and Engeiering, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (11)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States