Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
High Latitude Environments: Marginal Ice Zone Processes
AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting 2016
21-26 February 2016
New Orleans, Louisiana
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions: 23 September 2015
For further information or to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions
For questions about this session, please contact the convener:
Craig Lee
Phone: 206-685-7656
Email: craig [at] apl.washington.edu
Organizers of a High Latitude Environments (HE009) session entitled
'Marginal Ice Zone Processes' announce a call for abstracts. This
session will be convened at the 2016 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting,
scheduled for 21-26 February 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rapid decline in Arctic summertime sea ice extent has produced extensive
seasonal ice zones, where broad marginal ice zones separate pack ice
from open water. This session focuses on the processes that control
evolution of the marginal ice zone and the potential changes that may
accompany increased seasonality of sea ice. The complex interplay
between ice, ocean and atmospheric processes, and the potentially strong
feedbacks among them, modulate sea ice melt and the transfer of momentum
and buoyancy into the upper ocean. For example the influence of wind,
waves and passing storms drives highly variable floe size distributions,
which impact melt or formation rates of sea ice, momentum and heat
transfer, light fields and phytoplankton productivity. In particular,
the relative importance of wave attenuation and scattering in an
increasing wave climate remains unknown. Similarly, increased areas of
open water may lead to stronger coupling between atmosphere and ocean,
internal wave generation and elevated upper-ocean mixing. This session
invites presentations that describe observational, experimental,
theoretical and numerical investigations of MIZ processes in both the
Arctic and Antarctic.
Abstract submission deadline for all sessions: 23 September 2015.
For further information about the Ocean Sciences Meeting or to submit an
abstract, please go to: http://osm.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions.
For questions about this session, please contact the convener:
Craig Lee
Phone: 206-685-7656
Email: craig [at] apl.washington.edu
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