Comparative
Studies of Climate Effects on Polar and Sub-Polar Ecosystems:
Progress in Observation and Prediction
ESSAS
2011 OSM
May 22-26, 2011, Seattle,
WA, USA
Please NOTE the content of the following Presentations
cannot be used without authors' permissions. Todownload and save these files on your local machine, right-click
on the link and choose "Save Target As..."
Workshop
2
Arctic-Sub-Arctic interactions
Co-Convenors:
Kenneth F. Drinkwater (Norway)
Thomas Haine (USA)
This workshop will build on the work of the Arctic-Subarctic Ocean
Fluxes (ASOF) community that has focused on quantifying the fluxes
around the Arctic and the successful IPY session on Arctic-Subarctic
connections: Ecosystems and biodiversity at the Oslo IPY Conference
in June of 2010. It will bring together several disperse groups that
are studying these fluxes and their biophysical effects, including:
ESSAS that has concentrated on the Subarctic and the effects on the
marine biota, especially fish; those working on the benthic-pelagic
coupling and the biogeochemistry in the Barents and the Greenland
shelves; those looking at the interaction between the Chukchi Sea
and the western Bering Sea; scientists who during the IPY studied
the effects of the Bering Sea on the Western Arctic; and other interested
scientists. The object is to identify the gaps in our knowledge and
to highlight what research can be carried out over the next few years
to fill some of these gaps in our understanding of the effects of
the interactions between the Arctic and Sub-Arctic and to coordinate
the research on these issues. Areas of interest include physical,
biogeochemical, and food web studies.
W2
Charles H. Greene, Bruce C. Monger, Louise
P. McGarry, Matthew D. Connelly, Neesha R. Schnepf, Andrew J. Pershing,
Igor M. Belkin, Paula S. Fratantoni, David G. Mountain, Robert S. Pickart,
Andrey Proshutinsky, Rubao Ji, James J. Bisagni, Changsheng Chen, Sirpa
M.A. Hakkinen, Dale B. Haidvogel, Jia Wang, Charles Hannah, Erica Head,
Peter Smith, P. Chris Reid and Alessandra Conversi
Remote climate forcing of regime shifts in northwest Atlantic shelf ecosystems
(W2-7372)
(pdf,
1.6 Mb)
Peter Rhines, Eleanor Frajka-Williams and
Hjálmar Hátun
Dynamics of upper ocean low-salinity waters in controlling winter convection,
water-mass transformation and spring blooms (W2-7481)
(pdf,
2.5 Mb)