Session Papers Overview of North Slope of Alaska/Adjacent Arctic Ocean Science Issues

• Main Authors: R. G. Ellingson, J. A. Curry, K. Stamnes, J. E. Walsh, B. D. Zak
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; north slope; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.455.4047; http://www.arm.gov/publications/proceedings/conf04/extended_abs/ellingson_rg.pdf

Experiment (FIRE) III, include the following items in order of priority: • the radiative effects of mixed phase and ice phase clouds, aerosols, and cloud-aerosol mixtures • description of basic cloud microphysical properties and how they are influenced by atmospheric thermodynamics and aerosol characteristics • the relative importance of surface and advective fluxes of moisture in the formation of clouds • the sensitivity of the boundary layer clouds to large-scale vertical motion • interactions among turbulence, radiation, and cloud microphysical processes in the evolution of the cloudy atmospheric boundary layer • the radiative effects of the horizontally inhomogeneous summertime stratocumulus clouds over the horizontally inhomogeneous, melting snow/sea ice surface The following material is based on presentations made during the ARM Science Team Meeting concerning the scientific issues to be addressed at the North Slope of