ARCUS Publication Directory

The ARCUS Publication Directory is a portal that includes science planning documents, white papers, newsletters, and other reports that are outside of the peer review literature.

The publications index is listed in chronological order beginning with the most recent publication.


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Release Date: - Sea Ice Outlook

Sea Ice Outlook: 2018 Interim Post-Season Report

Outlook Report

Executive Summary


The 2018 Arctic summer melt season has come to a close. The September monthly averaged sea ice extent was 4.71 million square kilometers, based on the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Sea Ice Index. This ranks as effectively tied with 2008 for the 6th lowest in the satellite record that began in 1979. The median extent of the 39 Outlook contributions for June, July, and August were 4.60, 4.70, and 4.57 million square kilometers, respectively. Overall, the Outlooks performed well, with the observed extent falling within the interquartile


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Year: 2018 - Publication

Opportunities and Challenges in Arctic System Synthesis: A Consensus Report from the Arctic Research Community

Vorosmarty, C., Rawlins, M., Hinzman, L., Francis, J., Serreze, M., Liljedahl, A., McDonald, K., Piasecki, M. & Rich, R. (2018). Opportunities and Challenges in Arctic System Synthesis: A Consensus Report from the Arctic Research Community. New York, NY. City University of New York.


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Release Date: - Witness the Arctic

Witness the Arctic | Volume 22, Number 1 - Summer

The Summer 2018 issue of Witness the Arctic is now published online. This issue includes a call for public comment on the Revised Principles for Conducting Research in the Arctic; news from a recent study indicating an increase in amplified Arctic temperatures; news of the recently developed use of remote sensing to study beaver encroachment in Arctic tundra; news about the EarthScope Transportable Array; updates from the SEARCH program, USARC, the Sea Ice Prediction Network–Phase 2, the women in polar research panel discussion during POLAR2018, and the 2018 Anchorage Arctic Research Day


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Release Date: - Sea Ice Outlook

Sea Ice Outlook: 2018 August Report

Outlook Report

Executive Summary


The 2018 August Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) for September ice conditions received 39 (34 in June, 39 in July) contributions, variously based on dynamical (physics-based) models, statistical approaches, heuristic (qualitative), and mixed methods. Along with projections of total Arctic sea ice extent for September, the SIO received 10 (10 in June, 9 in July) projections of Antarctic total ice extent and 11 (11 in both June and July) projections of ice extent in the Alaskan sector (combining the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas). Thank you to all the


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Release Date: - Sea Ice Outlook

Sea Ice Outlook: 2018 July Report

Outlook Report

Executive Summary


The 2018 July Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) for September ice conditions received a total of 39 contributions, variously based on dynamical (physics-based) models, statistical approaches, heuristic (qualitative), and mixed methods. Along with projections of total Arctic sea ice extent for September, the SIO received 9 projections of Antarctic total ice extent and 11 projections of ice extent in the Alaskan sector (combining the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas). Thank you to all the contributors!

The SIO, a product of the Sea Ice Prediction Network


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Release Date: - Sea Ice Outlook

Sea Ice Outlook: 2018 June Report

Outlook Report

Executive Summary


Thank you to the groups that contributed to this 2018 June Sea Ice Outlook (SIO) report. We received 34 contributions that include pan-Arctic predictions, of those contributions 10 also included pan-Antarctic predictions and 11 included predictions for Alaskan waters. We received one additional contribution with a regional focus on the Nares Strait.

For the Arctic, the median June Outlook value for a September 2018 sea ice extent projection is 4.6 million square kilometers with quartiles of 4.4 and 4.9 million square kilometers (See **Figure 1*


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Release Date: - Sea Ice Outlook

Sea Ice Outlook: 2017 Post-Season Report

Highlights


The Sea Ice Outlook (SIO), a contribution to the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), provides an open forum for researchers and others to develop, share, and discuss seasonal Arctic sea ice predictions.

2017 Submissions: Once again we want to thank all our participants in the SIO! This year we received a total of 106 submissions for the pan-Arctic September extent, two more than we received in 2016. This was a new record number of contributions, with 33 received in June, 36 in July and 37 in August. We collected Alaska


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Year: 2017 - Publication

INTAROS Community-Based Monitoring Experience Exchange Workshop Report

Maryann Fidel, Noor Johnson, Finn Danielsen, Hajo Eicken, Lisbeth Iversen, Olivia Lee, Colleen Strawhacker, INTAROS Community-Based Monitoring Experience Exchange Workshop Report. Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC), University of Alaska Fairbanks, ELOKA, and INTAROS, Fairbanks, Alaska. 2017. 21 pp.


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Release Date: - Witness the Arctic

Witness the Arctic | Volume 21, Number 2 - Fall

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic is now published online. This issue includes a summary of the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations and announcement of the NSF Arctic Sciences Program Town Hall during the 2017 AGU Fall meetings; a highlight of recent community-based research on the health and wellbeing of Alaska Native Elderly; Sea Ice Prediction Network news; discussion of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program’s syntheses and communication efforts; results from a workshop that examined relationships between research and Alaskan


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Year: 2016 - Publication

Coastal Monitoring Indigenous Knowledge Holders Meeting Report

Coastal Monitoring Indigenous Knowledge Holders Meeting Report. Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Ottawa, Canada. 2016. 15 pp.


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