Advancing understanding of Arctic sea ice and weather interactions in summer and fall to improve forecasts on day to month timescales
Abstract
Funds are provided to conduct research to understand and predict Arctic weather and its interaction with sea ice on day-to-month ti"mescales, especially the extreme storms that have driven major sea ice break-up and caused large waves and severe coastal erosion in"" summer and fall. This project seeks to investigate the extent to which these intense cyclones are predictable, and to what extent" predicting them depends on Arctic and lower latitude conditions. It also seeks to determine how sea ice conditions set the stage f"or such events and to quantify the effect of such storms on the sea ice break-up, divergence, melt and fall freeze-up. The PI~s pro""pose to conduct a series of predictability simulations using a prediction system that has multi-scale resolution in the atmosphere," with finer Arctic resolution.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 26, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812175
Entities
People
- Cecilia M. Bitz
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Washington