Marco Tedesco and Patrick Alexander
Cryosphere Processes Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
Part 1 Objectives: Generate Arctic freshwater input for ocean modeling.
Part 1 Expected Outcomes/Deliverables: Monthly observed Greenland Ice Sheet (GRACE) and Arctic Sea Ice (PIOMAS) freshwater flux derived from satellites / reanalysis data.
Resources:
Cryosphere Presentation at Researchers Team Meeting Presentation July 27, 2023 (Zoom recording, start at 30:00 mins to 56:00)
Cryosphere Slides from Project Rescoping Meeting Oct 12, 2022
Eric Chassignet, Michael Stukel, and Xiaobiao Xu
Florida State University
Goals
To establish/understand the role of atmospheric forcing and freshwater fluxes on circulation pattern and nutrient fluxes into the northwestern Atlantic shelf region.
To determine how altered circulation, nutrients, and temperature modify plankton food web and provide model fields to the other groups in the NNA collaboration.
Joaquim Goes and Helga Gomes
Columbia University
One of our deliverables is more refined satellite estimates of net primary productivity for the US East Coast which we hope to deliver by the the second half of year 2, whereas we hope to provide a synthesis of our datasets by the middle of Year 3
We are hoping that we will be able use the planned lobster trap temperature data from our stakeholders to validate model outputs and are also hoping to use their local knowledge to help us with our synthesis efforts