A Comprehensive Modeling Approach Towards Understanding and Prediction of the Alaskan Coastal System Response to Changes in an Ice-diminished Arctic

• Main Authors: Maslowski, Wieslaw, Cassano, John J., Walsh, John J.
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Numerical Mathematics; *ICE FORECASTING; ALASKA; LITTORAL ZONES; ARCTIC OCEAN; SUBMARINE CANYONS; CHUKCHI SEA; COASTAL REGIONS; OCEAN MODELS; ICE-DIMINISHED; ICE-OCEAN MODELING; BARROW CANYON; CHUKCHI SLOPE; CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO; NOPP(NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Chukchi Sea; Archipelago; Barrow; Canadian Archipelago; Chukchi; Comprehensive Modeling Approach Towards Understanding and Prediction of the Alaskan Coastal System Response to Changes in an Ice diminished Arctic; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA531839; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA531839

Our research combines state-of-the-art regional modeling of sea ice, ocean, atmosphere and ecosystem to provide a system approach to advance the knowledge and predictive capability of the diverse impacts of changing sea ice cover on the bio-physical marine environment of coastal Alaska and over the larger region of the western Arctic Ocean. The focus of this project on seasonally ice-free Alaskan coasts and shelves is in direct support of the "Coastal Effects of a Diminished-ice Arctic Ocean" and littoral studies of interest to the U.S. Navy. Prepared in collaboration with University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL. The original document contains color images.