Atmospheric Control of the Surface Energy Budget

• Main Author: Overland, James E
• Other Authors: NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION SEATTLE WA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Earth Sciences and Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *ARCTIC REGIONS; *ATMOSPHERES; *SEA ICE; DYNAMICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERACTIONS; OSCILLATION; RESOLUTION; SCALE; WEATHER; Arctic; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA629895; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA629895

LONG-TERM GOALS. Provide the observational and theoretical foundation for the dynamics in a high resolution sea ice model. Understand how the atmosphere/ice system responds to changes in large-scale atmospheric forcing, including weather events and historical decadal trends. OBJECTIVES. Understand the scale interaction between the multiple floe scale (10 km), the regional granular continuum scale (10 - 200 km) and the sub-basin scale (200 km). Document how large-scale atmospheric changes such as the Arctic Oscillation (AO) influence regional sea ice thermodynamic and dynamic processes based on the heterogeneous and plastic nature of sea ice.