Science Plan for Regional Arctic System Modeling

• Main Author: Roberts, Andrew
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; Damocles; Climate change; International Arctic Science Committee; National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11050

Keywords: Arctic System, Climate Change, Complex adaptive system, Arctic, Modeling Data and PDFs for "A Science Plan for Regional Arctic System Modeling" by Roberts, A. and Coauthors, 2010, IARC Technical Report 10-0001. The data collection includes the full report, a NetCDF file containing information used to illustrate and define the Arctic System in Figure 2, and supplemental PDFs of individual figures produced especially for the report. A URL is also provided that links to workshops where outcomes contributed substantially to this report. The purpose of the science plan is to provide a roadmap for understanding variability, complexity and change in the Arctic and it's adjacent environments, including understanding interconnectivity of the geosphere, biosphere and anthroposphere of the high north. Primary funding for this effort was provided by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, Arctic System Science Program (OPP 0652838), and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. We are also grateful for support provided for one of three workshops that contributed to this report by SEARCH for DAMOCLES, the Ca- nadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Centre pour l’étude et la simulation du climat à l’échelle régionale at the University of Quebec at Montreal, the Rossby Center at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrologic Institute, and the International Arctic Science Committee.