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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 July 23, 2008
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

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    

9 October 2008 - Future Risk of Hurricanes: the Role of Climate Change

20 June 2008 - NASA launches satellite to keep a weather, climate eye open

1 May 2008 -Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector (Nature)

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Announcements

Drought Workshop in conjunction with NOAA's 33rd Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop; 20-24 October 2008

Western Boundary Current Workshop Announcement 15-17 January 2009; Register NOW!!

U.S. CLIVAR Summit Symposium presentations and Summit documents are available online

First announcement for Ocean Obs '09
(21-24 September)

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