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The U.S. CLIVAR High Latitude Surface Flux Working Group was formed in January 2008, with the particular goal of addressing some of the myriad challenges associated with air-sea and air-ice-ocean exchanges in Arctic, Antarctic, and Southern Ocean regions.  The working group activities are motivated by several identified deficiencies in estimates of high latitude surface fluxes (e.g., sensible and latent heat, radiative fluxes, stress, and gas fluxes).

High Latitude Surface Flux Working Group
last updated February 19, 2009
Cecilia Bitz University of Washington
Mark Bourassa (co-chair) Florida State University
David Carlson International Polar Year Program Office
Will Drennen University of Miami
Chris Fairall NOAA ESRL CIRES
Sarah Gille (co-chair) Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ross Hoffman AER, Inc.
Gudrun Magnusdottir University of California - Irvine
Mark Serreze University of Colorado
Kevin Speer Florida State University
Lynne Talley Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Gary Wick NOAA ERSL
Contributing Scientists
Ian Renfrew University of East Anglia
Rachel Pinker University of Maryland
Ivana Cerovecki Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ed Andreas Northwest Research Associates

Terms of Reference

  • Assess status of flux products for momentum and heat in high-latitude regimes, providing an honest assessment of the state of flux products; evaluate commonalities between Arctic and Antarctic. These will be assessed on a variety of spatial/temporal scales that are important to the user community.
  • On the basis of the flux assessment, identify priorities for continued flux observations, parameterizations, and requirements for updated reanalyses and gridded flux products.

 

 

Science Tidbits    

5 March 2009 - Can sea levels diagnose the health of part of the world's ocean circulation?

19 February 2009 - North Atlantic Ocean is world's 'climate superpower'

28 January 2009 - Global Warming and Atlantic Hurricane Intensity

22 October 2008 - British scientists go cloud-hopping in the Pacific to improve climate predictions

 

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AMOC Annual Science Meeting 4-6 May 2009 (Annapolis, MD) Registration Open

Climate Process Team Review paper online

Western Boundary Current Workshop presentations available

 

 

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