Workshop Day 1 (February 14, 2024)
8.15 – 9.00 Welcome, logistics, and Introduction
9.00 – 10.30 Presentations + discussion Topic I: Drivers and impacts of ocean heat and freshwater transport into and out of the Arctic
11.00 – 12.30 Presentations + discussion Topic II: Ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions in a warming Arctic
13.30 – 15.00 Presentations + discussion Topic III: Biophysical impacts of Arctic marine biogeochemistry
15.30 – 17.00 Breakout sessions
17.00 – 19.00 Poster session
- Welcome
- Logistics
- Early-Career Report Out
- Meeting introduction
9.00 – 10.30 Presentations + discussion Topic I: Drivers and impacts of ocean heat and freshwater transport into and out of the Arctic
- Gaopeng Xu (TAMU): The Bering Strait's Overlooked Role in Amplified Arctic Warming: Insights from High-Resolution Climate Simulations
- Dylan Oldenburg (WHOI): Overturning across the Fram Strait and Barents Sea Opening and its links to the ocean heat transport into the Arctic
- Tahya Weiss-Gibbons (U. Alberta): Sensitivity of Arctic Ocean Model Simulations to River Runoff and Temperature Forcing From Hydrological Models
- Xiangdong Zhang (NCSU): Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Ocean Interactions Associated with the Recent Prominent Changes in Atmospheric Dynamics: A Modeling and Observational Synthesis
- Discussion
11.00 – 12.30 Presentations + discussion Topic II: Ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions in a warming Arctic
- Gianluca Meneghello (LMD/IPSL): What controls mesoscale eddies and eddies fluxes in the Arctic Ocean?
- Yanxu Chen (WHOI): Physical phenology of air-sea heat budget for the Beaufort Sea autumn freeze-up
- Milena Veneziani (LANL): Arctic Ocean stratification in a changing climate
- Stephanie Waterman (U. British Columbia): How does imposing an observationally-informed map of background vertical diffusivity impact the modeled Arctic Ocean state?
- Discussion
13.30 – 15.00 Presentations + discussion Topic III: Biophysical impacts of Arctic marine biogeochemistry
- Georgina Gibson (UAF/LANL): Assessing the potential impact of river chemistry on Arctic coastal production
- Antoine Haddon (U. Victoria, early career): Environmental controls and phenology of sea ice algae growth in a future Arctic
- Jackie Clement Kinney (Naval Postgraduate School): Combining model results and observations to reduce uncertainty in primary production beneath and within Arctic sea ice
- Till Wagner (U. Wisconsin): Sea ice melt as a driver of spring phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean
- Discussion
15.30 – 17.00 Breakout sessions
17.00 – 19.00 Poster session
Workshop Day 2 (February 15, 2024)
8.15 – 8.30 Introduction to Day 2
8.30 – 9.00 Advances in Arctic Sea Ice Modeling
9.00 – 9.30 Advances in Arctic Conceptual Modeling
9.30 – 10.00 Advances in Arctic Marine Reanalysis
10.00 – 10.30 Advances in Arctic Marine Metrics
11.00 – 12.00 Flash talks for remote participants
13.30 – 15.00 Breakout sessions
15.30 – 17.00 Advances in Arctic Marine Modeling
8.30 – 9.00 Advances in Arctic Sea Ice Modeling
- Elizabeth Hunke (LANL): Highlights from the CICE Consortium
- Discussion
9.00 – 9.30 Advances in Arctic Conceptual Modeling
- Mike Spall (WHOI): Advances in Arctic Conceptual Modeling: A Beaufort Gyre Example
- Discussion
9.30 – 10.00 Advances in Arctic Marine Reanalysis
- James Carton (UMD): The Regional Arctic Reanalysis
- Discussion
10.00 – 10.30 Advances in Arctic Marine Metrics
- Nadja Steiner (Fisheries and Oceans Canada): Model evaluation capabilities for marine ecosystem/biogeochemical variables
- Discussion
11.00 – 12.00 Flash talks for remote participants
- Jake Aylmer (Reading, UK): Explaining the impact of ocean heat transport on sea ice using a simple energy-balance model
- Guillaume Boutin (NERSC-Norway): A coupled ice-ocean framework to investigate the impact of sea-ice deformations in the winter sea-ice mass balance in the Arctic
- Andrew Hamilton (U. Alberta): Substantial changes in Atlantic layer properties in Baffin Bay and the Canadian Arctic revealed in a new observational ocean data compilation
- Mengnan Zhao (AER): Characterizing Arctic sea ice leads from ICESat-2
- Julie McClean (Scripps): The influence of Atlantic Water on Eastern Arctic ice/ocean interactions from two mesoscale ocean/sea-ice simulations
- Kate Hedstrom (UAF): Arctic ice-ocean circulation modeling: Evaluation of a Landfast Ice Parameterization in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
13.30 – 15.00 Breakout sessions
15.30 – 17.00 Advances in Arctic Marine Modeling
- Erin Thomas (LANL): Wave – Sea Ice Interactions in Global Climate Simulations of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)
- Paul Myers (U. Alberta): An examination of the freshwater content of the Beaufort Gyre in a suite of NEMO model simulations
- Xinyue Li (AWI, early career): Eddy-rich Arctic as future sea ice disappears in high-resolution view
- Morven Muilwijk (NorPolar Institute, Norway, early career): Bridging the gap: gathering observational data for model evaluation and improvement
- Discussion
Workshop Day 3 (February 16, 2024)
8.15 – 8.30 Introduction to Day 3
8.30 – 9.00 Advances in Arctic Marine Observations
9.00 – 9.30 Advances in Arctic Remote Sensing
9.30 – 10.30 Breakout sessions
11.00 – 12.00 Report out of working groups, next steps, and conclusion
8.30 – 9.00 Advances in Arctic Marine Observations
- Isabela Le Bras (WHOI): Arctic Ocean budgets of volume, mass, and freshwater (2003-2020)
- Discussion
9.00 – 9.30 Advances in Arctic Remote Sensing
- Ron Kwok: Satellite-based estimates of snow depth, thickness, and kinematics of Arctic sea-ice
- Discussion
9.30 – 10.30 Breakout sessions
11.00 – 12.00 Report out of working groups, next steps, and conclusion
Poster Presentations
Dave Bailey (UCAR): Developments in the sea ice component of CESM3
Tom Ballinger (UAF): The calm between the storms: near-surface meteorological and upper-ocean oceanographic conditions underpinning the extreme Beaufort Sea ice loss event in August of 2021
Clement Bertin (JPL, early career): Modeling the carbon cycle across the Arctic land-ocean continuum: a case study of the Southeastern Beaufort Sea
Sawyer Brand (LANL): Pacific/Circumpolar and North Atlantic Deep Waters in the Argentine Basin: Lateral Stirring within the AMOC
Nan-Hsun Chi (NOAA): Storm generated near-inertial waves in Eastern Chukchi Sea - A case study by observation and a hybrid coordinate ocean model
Sinead Farrell (UMD): Monitoring Sea Ice Roughness and Deformation at Varying Length Scales with NASA’s ICESat-2
Reint Fischer (UMD): Interannual Variability and Trends in Winter Significant Wave Height in the Bering Sea During the Period 2003-2023
Chuanshuai Fu (U Alberta): Mechanisms and implications of the wide warming over the BG during 2014-2019 versus 2008-2013
Sarah Hall (NOAA): Using a Generalized Additive Model to Compute Bias-Corrected Bulk Surface Salinities from Satellite-Derived Skin Salinities in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas
Yipeng He (FIU): Air-sea exchange of mercury species in the Arctic from a springtime Arctic cruise
Amadini Jayasinghe (LANL): Impact of Arctic Watershed characteristics on the composition of riverine dissolved organic carbon reaching the Arctic Ocean
Lingwei Li (CU): Sea ice-ocean exchange of Arctic microplastics
Qiuxian Li (UW): Revisiting the Role of Ocean Circulation Changes in Arctic Ocean Heat Transport Anomalies under Global Warming
Caili Liu (AWI): Spatial scales of kinetic energy in the Arctic Ocean
Hannah Louis (U. Alberta): Numerical Modelling of Marine Heat Wave Drivers in James Bay
Wieslaw Maslowski (NPS): Closing the Arctic Ocean volume transports to constrain its heat convergence
Margaret Murakami (U. Texas Austin): Arctic Ocean Water Mass Transformation in the Arctic Subpolar gyre sTate Estimate (ASTE): Budgets and Analysis in Temperature-Salinity Space
Siobhan Niklasson (NMTech/LANL): Changing Ambient Noise Patterns in the Beaufort Sea
Mukulika Pahari (U. Alberta): Exploring the mechanisms driving Irminger Water bifurcation into the northern Labrador Sea and Davis Strait
Courtney Payne (U. Colorado): Quantifying the potential predictability of Arctic primary production
Andrew Roberts (LANL): The Arctic Ocean in a Global Context According to E3SM Version 3
Spenser Ross (U. Toronto): An Examination of the Wrangel Island Sea Ice Thickness Dipole
Carlyn Schmidgall (UW): Observations and Modeling of Salinity Variability in the Beaufort Gyre
Kat Smith (LANL): Small-Scale Mechanisms of Heat and Nutrient Entrainment into the Arctic Ocean Surface Layer
Mike Spall (WHOI): Multiple Equilibria in Ice-Covered Oceans
Adrien Stella (U. Brest): Pan-Arctic chlorophyll-a dynamics from surface color observations
Wilbert Weijer (LANL): Bering Strait Ocean Heat Transport Drives Decadal Arctic Variability in a High-Resolution Climate Model
Robin Whincup (U. Alberta): Investigating the role of extratropical cyclones in deep water formation in the Labrador and Nordic Seas
Yuanxin Zhang (JAMSTEC): Future Projection of Ice-Algal Production in the Arctic Ocean: Model Intercomparison
Tom Ballinger (UAF): The calm between the storms: near-surface meteorological and upper-ocean oceanographic conditions underpinning the extreme Beaufort Sea ice loss event in August of 2021
Clement Bertin (JPL, early career): Modeling the carbon cycle across the Arctic land-ocean continuum: a case study of the Southeastern Beaufort Sea
Sawyer Brand (LANL): Pacific/Circumpolar and North Atlantic Deep Waters in the Argentine Basin: Lateral Stirring within the AMOC
Nan-Hsun Chi (NOAA): Storm generated near-inertial waves in Eastern Chukchi Sea - A case study by observation and a hybrid coordinate ocean model
Sinead Farrell (UMD): Monitoring Sea Ice Roughness and Deformation at Varying Length Scales with NASA’s ICESat-2
Reint Fischer (UMD): Interannual Variability and Trends in Winter Significant Wave Height in the Bering Sea During the Period 2003-2023
Chuanshuai Fu (U Alberta): Mechanisms and implications of the wide warming over the BG during 2014-2019 versus 2008-2013
Sarah Hall (NOAA): Using a Generalized Additive Model to Compute Bias-Corrected Bulk Surface Salinities from Satellite-Derived Skin Salinities in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas
Yipeng He (FIU): Air-sea exchange of mercury species in the Arctic from a springtime Arctic cruise
Amadini Jayasinghe (LANL): Impact of Arctic Watershed characteristics on the composition of riverine dissolved organic carbon reaching the Arctic Ocean
Lingwei Li (CU): Sea ice-ocean exchange of Arctic microplastics
Qiuxian Li (UW): Revisiting the Role of Ocean Circulation Changes in Arctic Ocean Heat Transport Anomalies under Global Warming
Caili Liu (AWI): Spatial scales of kinetic energy in the Arctic Ocean
Hannah Louis (U. Alberta): Numerical Modelling of Marine Heat Wave Drivers in James Bay
Wieslaw Maslowski (NPS): Closing the Arctic Ocean volume transports to constrain its heat convergence
Margaret Murakami (U. Texas Austin): Arctic Ocean Water Mass Transformation in the Arctic Subpolar gyre sTate Estimate (ASTE): Budgets and Analysis in Temperature-Salinity Space
Siobhan Niklasson (NMTech/LANL): Changing Ambient Noise Patterns in the Beaufort Sea
Mukulika Pahari (U. Alberta): Exploring the mechanisms driving Irminger Water bifurcation into the northern Labrador Sea and Davis Strait
Courtney Payne (U. Colorado): Quantifying the potential predictability of Arctic primary production
Andrew Roberts (LANL): The Arctic Ocean in a Global Context According to E3SM Version 3
Spenser Ross (U. Toronto): An Examination of the Wrangel Island Sea Ice Thickness Dipole
Carlyn Schmidgall (UW): Observations and Modeling of Salinity Variability in the Beaufort Gyre
Kat Smith (LANL): Small-Scale Mechanisms of Heat and Nutrient Entrainment into the Arctic Ocean Surface Layer
Mike Spall (WHOI): Multiple Equilibria in Ice-Covered Oceans
Adrien Stella (U. Brest): Pan-Arctic chlorophyll-a dynamics from surface color observations
Wilbert Weijer (LANL): Bering Strait Ocean Heat Transport Drives Decadal Arctic Variability in a High-Resolution Climate Model
Robin Whincup (U. Alberta): Investigating the role of extratropical cyclones in deep water formation in the Labrador and Nordic Seas
Yuanxin Zhang (JAMSTEC): Future Projection of Ice-Algal Production in the Arctic Ocean: Model Intercomparison
