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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.

 

 

Announcements

First Circular Announcement for WCRP Open Science Conference October 2011

7-9 June 2010 - US CLIVAR Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Annual Meeting (Miami, FL)

International CLIVAR seeks new Director - closing date 29 March 2010.

17-19 March 2010 - High Latitude Surface Flux Workshop in conjunction with SEAFLUX (Boulder, CO)

Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise(PACE) seeking Organizational Partners

PSMI Publication on Best Practices for Process Studies released and has reached #6 on AMS most viewed list. (BAMS, July 2009)

 

 

 

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Science Tidbits    

February 2010

YOTC-GS Alpha Prototype for Satellite data has been released to the public

14 August 2009 - Past Atlantic Hurricanes linked to Climate Change

10 August 2009 - Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

 

 

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