Monitoring, evaluating and modelling sea cce and climate changes in the Arctic.

• Main Authors: Johannessen, O.M., Bobylev, L.P., Kuzmina, S.I.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Sea ice; Monitoring; Modeling; Climate; Remote sensing; Variability; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7635823

The scientific results of the research project on “Monitoring, evaluating and forecasting seaice and climate changes in the Arctic (MonArc)” are presented. The overall objective has been to analyse data from satellites and other sources in order to determine and evaluate arctic sea ice and climate change. The specific objectives have been to -integrate data from diverse satellite microwave sensors and other sources to produce long sea ice datasets, -analyse these and other observational and model data, in order to: -determine the spatio-temporal variability, -evaluate the variability with respect to observations and modelled variability in the ice–ocean–atmosphere system, -forecast sea ice variability using models, and ƒrecommend a sea ice–climate monitoring scheme. These objectives have been achieved through the six tasks specified in the primary MonArc workplan, as well as tasks in the supplementary funding for the “Monitoring and modelling sea ice and climate in the Arctic (ModArc)” project workplan. The overall objective of the ModArc component has been to integrate and analyse satellite data together with state-of-art models, in order to determine, assess and forecast sea ice and climate variability in the Arctic. NERSC Technical report no. 223