Meeting #3, October, 21-24 2014 :: Forum for Arctic Modeling & Observational Synthesis

FAMOS Meeting #3, October 21-24, 2014

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

October 21, 2014: FAMOS School for young scientists, Redfield Auditorium

October 22-24, 2014: FAMOS Workshop, Redfield Auditorium

A. 2014 List of Participants

B. Final Meeting Agenda

C. Abstracts of Presentations

D. 3rd FAMOS Meeting Logistics Package.

FAMOS School for Young Arctic Scientists

Bonnie Light: Modeling the physics of summer melt on Arctic sea ice: changing snow, shrinking ice, and plenty of sunshine

Paul Wassmann: The productivity of the Arctic Ocean, now and in the future, as revealed by modelling (Coming Soon)

Patrick Heimbach (MIT, USA): The ends and means of (ice/ocean) data assimilation

Outreach Discussion: Bruno Tremblay and Mary-Louise Timmermans (Coming Soon)

Laurie Padman (Earth and Space Research, USA):Tidal impacts on the Arctic ocean and sea ice

Clara Deser (UCAR, USA): Modeling the impact of Arctic sea ice loss on the global atmosphere: current research and outstanding issues

Contents

3^rd FAMOS MEETING

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Pierre Rampal and S. Bouilon: “Towards a new sea ice model: neXtSIM” (Coming Soon)
MP3 file: http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day2/FAMOS-D2_8.mp3

Andrew Roberts et al.: “Intercomparison of isotropic and anisotropic sea ice mechanics in a high-resolution fully coupled climate model” (Coming Soon)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day2/FAMOS-D2_9R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day2/FAMOS-D2_9.webm

Discussion and Group reports: “New approaches for sea ice modeling, observations and predictions” (Moderators: Andrew Roberts, Daniel Feltham, and Torge Martin)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day2/FAMOS-D2_11R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day2/FAMOS-D2_11.webm

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Summary of “Sea Ice” poster session (Andrew Roberts, Daniel Feltham and Torge Martin)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_1R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_1.webm

SESSION 4: Ocean modeling and observations #1

(Yevgeny Aksenov and Ben Rabe)

Timmermans, Mary-Louise et al.: “Mechanisms of Pacific Summer Water variability in the Arctic’s Central Canada Basin”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_2R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_2.webm

Curry, Beth et al.: Arctic Outflow West Of Greenland: “Nine Years Of Volume And Freshwater Transports From Observations In Davis Strait” http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_3R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_3.webm

Isachsen, Pål Erik: “Baroclinic instability and the mesoscale eddy field in the Arctic Ocean: a model study”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_4R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_4.webm

Luneva, Maria: “The effects of tides on the water mass mixing and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_6R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_6.webm

Discussion: “Currents, eddies, tides and mixing” (Sheldon Bacon and Pål Isachsen)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_7AR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_7A.webm

SESSION 5: Ecosystem and biogeochemical modeling

(Katya Popova and Paul Wassmann)

Summary of ecosystem and biochemical modeling poster session
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_7BR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_7B.webm

Wassmann Paul et al.: “Physical constrains of productivity in the Arctic Ocean: the trajectories into the future?”

Yoonjoo Lee et al.: Primary production algorithm Round Robin for the Arctic Ocean: Preliminary results
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_7CR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_7C.webm

Samuel Laney: “Year-long, daily-scale bio-optical observations under perennial ice cover in the Arctic Ocean”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_8R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_8.webm

Nicole Jeffery: “Modeling arctic sea ice biogeochemistry throughout the ice interior”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_9R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_9.webm

Discussion: Major challenges for biogeochemical modeling and observations: what is needed to improve both observing systems and models including coordinated experiments.(Katya Popova and Paul Wassmann)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_10R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_10.webm

SESSION 6: Ocean modeling and observations #2

(Mike Steele and Mary-Louise Timmermans)

Thomas Armitage: “Sea level in the Arctic Ocean from ERS, Envisat and CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimeters”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_10bR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_10b.webm

Paul Myers: “Effects of enhanced Greenland melt on the hydrography of Baffin Bay and the water exchanges between the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_11R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_11.webm

Dominic DiMaggio: “The Role and Variability of Ocean Heat Content in the Arctic Ocean: 1948-2009”
MP3 audio format only: http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_12.mp3

Sylvia Cole: “The ocean’s response to spring and summer melting”
MP3 audio format only: http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_13.mp3

Discussion: Major uncertainties in understanding of drivers of oceanic climate states and changes in freshwater and heat content. Coordinated experiments (M-L Timmermans and Mike Steele)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_15R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day3/FAMOS-D3_15.webm

Friday, October 24, 2014

SESSION 7: 2013-3014 FAMOS Coordinated Experiments

Andrey Proshutinsky: “Tasks for coordinated working group sessions”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_1R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_1.webm

Ekaterina Popova and Paul Wassmann: “Ecosystem and biogeochemistry coordinated field and numerical experiments and publications for FAMOS JGR special collection” (working group 1)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_1R.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_1.webm

Sheldon Bacon: “Freshwater and heat content coordinated field and numerical experiments and publications for FAMOS JGR special collection” (working group 2)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3AR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3A.webm

Yevgeny Aksenov: “Arctic circulation coordinated field and numerical experiments and publications for FAMOS JGR special collection” (working group 3) http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3BR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3B.webm

John Toole: “Coordinated mixing field and numerical experiments and publications for FAMOS JGR special collection” (working group 4) http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3CR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3C.webm

Torge Martin and Andrew Roberts: “Coordinated field and numerical sea ice experiments and publications for FAMOS JGR special collection” (working group 5)
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3DR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_3D.webm

Bruno Tremblay: “Coordinated field and numerical landfast ice experiments and publications for FAMOS JGR special collection”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_4AR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_4A.webm

Helge Goessling: “The Polar Prediction Project Year of Polar Prediction”
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_4BR.mov
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_4B.webm

Discussions

MP3 audio format only: http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_5.mp3
Continuation:
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http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http/WHOI_CMS/Events/FAMOS14/Day4/FAMOS-D4_6.webm

SESSION 3: Posters

Sea ice posters A1-A29

A1. Bouchat, Amélie: Using sea-ice deformation distributions to constrain sea-ice dynamic models
A2. Bouillon, Sylvain: On computing noise-free sea ice deformation fields from SAR-derived sea ice motion
A3. Close, Sally: Large-scale patterns of Arctic sea ice variability and links to climatic forcing
A4. Dupont, Frederic: Updates on ice-ocean coupling in the Canadian CONCEPTS 1/12th degree regional modelling system
A5. Feltham, Daniel et al.: A new parameterisation of frazil and grease ice formation in a climate sea ice models
A6. Flocco Daniela et al.: The impact of refreezing melt ponds on Arctic sea ice thinning
A7. Hata, Yukie: Anisotropic Internal Thermal Stress in Landfast Sea Ice from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
A8: Lee Sanggyun and Im Jungho: Estimation of Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness Using CryoSat-2
A9. Lecomte, Olivier: Influence of snow processes on sea ice: a model study
A10. Martin, Torge and Lars H. Smedsrud: On modeling a variable lead closing parameter: Do we need to explicitly simulate grease ice in climate models?
A11. Martin, Torge: Withdrawn
A12. Mueller, Bennit: Detection and attribution of Arctic sea ice change causes
A13: Petty, Alek: Seasonal trends in sea ice dynamics and wind forcing over the Beaufort Sea
A14. Plante, Mathieu: Formation and break-up of the Laptev Sea landfast ice.
A15. Steele, Michael: Arctic seasonal sea ice retreat: synchronicity, prediction, and dilation
A16. Thomas, Sam: Changing sea ice conditions in the Beaufort Sea – latest results from Ice Watch observations on the 2014 JOIS/BGEP cruise
A17. Tilling, Rachel: Arctic sea ice thickness and volume 2010-2014 from CryoSat-2
A18. Withdrawn (this now is an oral presentation) Tremblay, Bruno: Forecasting future sea ice conditions in the MIZ: a Langrangian approach
A19. Tsamados, Michel: Processes controlling surface, bottom and lateral melt of Arctic sea ice in a state of the art sea ice model
A20. Webster, Melinda: A Comparison of Melt Pond Evolution in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas
A21. Williams, James: Marginal Ice Zone Buoy Forecasts: a Model Comparison
A22. Hezel, Paul: Arctic summer sea ice decline in CMIP5
A23. Rynders, Stefanie et al.: Implementation of a Combined Elastic-Viscous-Plastic and Collisional Sea Ice Rheology
A24. Selyuzhenok, Valeria: Mechanisms of landfast sea ice development in the southeastern Laptev Sea
A25. Yang, Qinghua: Assimilating SMOS sea ice thickness into a coupled ice-ocean model using a local SEIK filter
A26. Maslowski, Wieslaw: Sensitivity of sea ice states to variable parameter space in the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM)
A27. Tsukernik, Maria et al.: The great Arctic cyclone of 2012: influences of the underlying surface
A28. Aksenov et al.: Predicting the Arctic Ocean Environment
A29. DeRepentigny, Patricia: Finding the source regions of sea ice melting in the marginal ice zone

Ocean from models and observations (Large-scale processes) posters B1-B26

B1. Aksenov, Yevgeny, et al.: Pathways, variability and Modification of the Arctic Atlantic water in the model inter-comparison experiment
B2. Golubeva, Elena and D.Yakshina: Sensitivity of the Arctic-North Atlantic numerical model to the mixed layer parameterization
B3. Herbaut, Christophe: Origin and fate of the AW anomalies in the Arctic from tracer experiments
B4. Houssais, Marie-Noelle: Atlantic water transports to the Arctic from hindcast simulations
B5. Long, Zhenxia: Air-sea interactions in the Barents Sea and Atlantic water layer in the central Arctic Ocean
B6. Rudels, Bert et al.: Atlantic inflows, the Arctic Ocean volume and freshwater balances, and the Fram Strait branch contribution to the Arctic heat budget
B7. Smedsrud, Lars H.: Atlantic inflow and sea ice in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean
B8. Nguyen, An: Arctic and sup-polar gyre state estimate.
B9. Carton, James: Arctic weather and heat content of the Nordic Seas: CMIP5 historical simulations
B10. Dukhovskoy, D.S. et al.: Relation between the Large-Scale Atmospheric Variability and Ocean Circulation in the Nordic Seas
B11. Dukhovskoy, DS.: Withdrawn
B12. Grivault, Nathan: Baffin Bay transports and budgets from a suite of numerical modelling experiments
B13. Holt, Jason: Challenges in coupled ocean-shelf modelling in the Arctic and North Atlantic context
B14. Ilicak, Mehmet: Intercomparison of Arctic Ocean hydrography, heat and salt fluxes in IPCC type global coupled ocean/sea‐ice models using CORE-II forcing
B15. Kwon, Mi Ok and Ho Ji Lee: Numerical Experiment of Tidal Effect on the Arctic Ocean Using an Ice-Coupled Ocean Model
B16. Nummelin, Aleksi: Arctic Ocean water masses under changing river runoff
B17. Bacon, Sheldon: Arctic freshwater and heat fluxes: variability, and assessment
B18. Proshutinsky, Andrey et al.: Causes and consequences of the Beaufort Gyre freshwater storage variability
B19. Schulze, Lena et al.: Freshwater changes and pathways in the Labrador Sea
B20. Stroh, Jacob N.: Sea-surface temperature and salinity product comparison against external in situ data in the Arctic
B21. Benjamin Rabe: Upper Arctic Ocean changes since the 1990s: freshwater, stratification and implications for biogeochemistry
B22. Cabrillo, Raquel Somavilla: Convection changes in the Greenland Sea since the 1980s: Causes and consequences.
B23. Paquin, Jean-Philippe: Analyses of Canadian CONCEPTS Regional 1/12-deg and ¼-deg simulations during 2003-2011
B24. Zhang, Yu et al.: Long-term Variability of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Outflow and Its Impacts on the Arctic Basin-Scale Circulation
B25. Ding, Yanni: Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea ice interaction on Arctic Ocean in CMIP5 simulations
B26. Walczowski, Waldemar: Changes of the West Spitsbergen Current properties and their climatic implications

Ecosystem and biogeochemical modeling posters: C1-C9

C1. Deal, Clara: Changes in Arctic marine dimethylsulfide with sea ice loss
C2. Duarte, Pedro: The (lack of) consensus in modeling marine biogeochemistry in the Arctic
C3. Ha, Ho Kyung: Measurement of suspended particulate matter under sea ice using ADCP and LISST
C4. Jin, Meibing: Evaluating CICE5 model with long term observations of snow, ice and biological data off Barrow
C5. Lawrence, Jonathan: Investigating Arctic subsurface primary production in a model: where, when, how much, and does it matter for satellite primary production estimates
C6. Maps, Frederic: Tackling the challenges of Modeling the Calanus complex in rapidly changing Arctic and sub-Arctic seas.
C7. Record, Nicholas: Predicting the biogeography of copepodid diapause
C8. Rosenhaim, Ingrid Linck: Modeling the distribution of the ballast water discharge in the Arctic Ocean
C9. Ashjian Carin et al.: Inter-annual and Shorter-Term Variability in Physical and Biological Characteristics across Barrow Canyon in August – September 2005-2013.
C10. Popova et al.: Modelling of the present and future Arctic Ocean Biogeochemistry

Ocean from models and observations (Meso- and small-scale processes) posters D1-D27

D1. Ashik, Igor: Extreme Sea Level Changes in the Arctic Seas and their long-term changes
D2. Dewey, Sarah: Aerial Surveys of the Beaufort Sea Seasonal Ice Zone in 2012
D3. Piacsek, Steve: Arctic – GIN Sea Deep Water Passages in the FRAM Strait
D4. Platov Gennady et al.: The coupled hydrodynamic system of Lena River delta and Laptev Sea shelf zone: problems of modeling and observational synthesis
D5. Carroll, Dustin: Numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis of subglacial meltwater plumes: implications for ocean-glacier coupling in Rink Isbrae, west Greenland
D6. Cenedese, Claudia: Laboratory Experiments Investigating the Influence of Multiple Subglacial Discharges on Submarine Melting of Greenland’s Glaciers
D7. Olsen, Steffen: Variability of the Arctic Ocean freshwater storage in a coupled climate model
D8. Davis, Peter: The effect of increased background mixing on the cold halocline of the Arctic Ocean
D9. Meri Korhonen: The problems and possibilities in identifying the evolution of the Winter Mixed Layer during melt season from the ITP observations
D10. Marcinko, Charlotte: Characterising Energy Spectra in the Arctic Ocean Halocline
D11. Plueddemann, Albert: Eddies in the Western Arctic Halocline
D12. Zhao, Mengnan: Structure and Dynamics of the Mesoscale Eddy Field in the Arctic Ocean’s Halocline.
D13. Chepurin, Gennady: Anomalous warming of the Barents Sea in summer 2013
D14. Bradley, Alice: Observations of Wind-Driven Processes in The Surface Layer Of The Marginal Ice Zone
D15. Holdsworth, Amber: The Influence of High Frequency Atmospheric Forcing on the Circulation and Deep Convection of the Labrador Sea
D16. Panteleev, Gleb et al.: Analysis of the variability of the circulation in the Pacific Sector of the Arctic Ocean during 2003-2010 decade through the 4Dvar data assimilation
D17. Panteleev, Gleb et al.: Optimization of the high-frequency radar sites in the Bering Strait region
D18. Panteleev, Gleb and Max Yaremchuk: Adjoint-Free Variational Data Assimilation into a Regional Models
D19. Francis, Oceana et al.: Toward a better hindcast/forecast of waves in the Arctic Ocean
D20. Hosekova, Lucia, et al.: Modelling Ocean Surface Waves in Polar Regions
D21. Dosser, Hayley: Impact of Declining Sea Ice on Wind Generated Near-Inertial Internal Waves and Implications for Mixing and Vertical Heat Flux
D22. Shimada, Koji: Retarded responses of the oceanic Beaufort Gyre to winds and sea ice motions: Influences on variations of sea ice in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean
D23. Zhang, Weifeng Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: The Dispersal of Dense Water Formed in a Coastal Polynya on a Shallow Sloping Shelf
D24. Torres, et al: Observations of the upper ocean flow field and sea ice dynamics in the Beaufort Gyre from 2005-2013 from moored instrumentation
D25. Gelderloos, Renske: A simple model of Nares Strait throughflow
D26. Bhatrasataponkul, Tachanat: Variability of Turbulent Heat Flux Estimates in the Nordic Seas
D27. Albretsen Jon et al.: Recirculation in the Fram Strait: Transport and dynamics based on observations and eddy-resolving modeling

Meeting #3, October, 21-24 2014

3rd FAMOS MEETING

Introduction: Andrey Proshutinsky: “Third FAMOS meeting goals and tasks”

SESSION 1: Sea Ice Highlights Session

SESSION 2: Sea Ice Modeling and Observations