Workshop on Establishing a Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Observing System (GriOOS), 2015

• Main Authors: Straneo, Fiammetta, Moon, Twila, Sutherland, Dave, Heimach, Patrick, Catania, Ginny
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Ice Sheet; Glaciers; Submarine melting; Iceberg; Ocean; Canada; Norway; glacier*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2v11vk70; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A2V11VK70

The need to establish a Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Observing System (GriOOS), as a means of providing long-term data at a number of key sites around Greenland that can inform understanding and provide boundary conditions and validation for models, was discussed at an International workshop held in San Francisco, on December 12-13, 2015. The workshop was attended by 47 participants from the USA, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom and Japan covering a wide range of expertise (oceanography, glaciology, climate and ice sheet modeling, marine ecosystems, paleoclimatology). Specific goals of the workshop were to: 1. Re-evaluate the need for GrIOOS 2. Identify the essential variables to be measured 3. Establish what measurements exist already. 4. Determine how many and which sites should be covered 5. Identify appropriate instrumentation 6. Identify the relevant timescales that GrIOOS should address 7. Discuss means of uniformly quality controlling the measurements and distributing the data 8. Identify potential funding sources