The Iceland Greenland Seas Project ...

• Main Authors: Renfrew, Ian A., Pickart, Robert S., Våge, Kjetil, Moore, George W.K., Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Elvidge, Andrew D., Jeansson, Emil, Lachlan-Cope, Tom A., McRaven, Leah T., Papritz, Lukas, Reuder, Joachim, Sodemann, Harald, Terpstra, Annick, Waterman, Stephanie N., Valdimarsson, Héđinn, Weiss, Alexandra, Almansi, Mattia, Bahr, Frank B., Brakstad, Ailin, Barrell, C., Brooke, Jennifer K., Brooks, Barbara J., Brooks, Ian M., Brooks, Malcolm E., Bruvik, Erik M., Duscha, C., Fer, Ilker, Hallerstig, M., Hessevik, Idar, Huang, Jie, Houghton, Leah A., Jónsson, Steingrímur, Jonassen, Marius O., Jackson, K., Kvalsund, Karsten, Kolstad, Erik W., Konstali, K., Kristiansen, Jørn, Ladkin, Russell, Lin, Peigen, MacRander, Andreas, Mitchell, A., Ólafsson, Haraldur, Pacini, Astrid, Payne, C., Palmason, B., Pérez-Hernández, María D., Peterson, Algot K., Petersen, Gudrún N., Pisareva, Maria N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ETH Zurich 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000374041; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/374041

The Iceland Greenland Seas Project (IGP) is a coordinated atmosphere–ocean research program investigating climate processes in the source region of the densest waters of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. During February and March 2018, a field campaign was executed over the Iceland and southern Greenland Seas that utilized a range of observing platforms to investigate critical processes in the region, including a research vessel, a research aircraft, moorings, sea gliders, floats, and a meteorological buoy. A remarkable feature of the field campaign was the highly coordinated deployment of the observing platforms, whereby the research vessel and aircraft tracks were planned in concert to allow simultaneous sampling of the atmosphere, the ocean, and their interactions. This joint planning was supported by tailor-made convection-permitting weather forecasts and novel diagnostics from an ensemble prediction system. The scientific aims of the IGP are to characterize the atmospheric forcing and the ... : Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9) ...