HR: 15:10h
AN: C23B-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Studies of Environmental Arctic Change and the International Polar Year
AU: * SSC, S
EM: morison@apl.washington.edu
AF: Polar Science Center, 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105
AB: Recent changes observed in the Arctic such as, for example, increase in surface air temperature, decrease in sea ice extent and thickness, decrease in permafrost extent and depth, land cover changes and migration of vegetation zones, or changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation have impacts on societies and economies in high northern latitudes including damage or loss of built infrastructure, fisheries, or subsistence to name just a few examples. Understanding the nature of these changes and developing response strategies have found wide interest in the scientific community and resulted in the U.S. program SEARCH (Study of Environmental ARctic Change). The same issues have also been identified by the IPY community as one of the priority items for extensive research activities in 2007/08 with the expectation to sustain an increased effort in this research area into the foreseeable future. In this contribution we discuss the status and plans of SEARCH for the period of the IPY effort. We focus the presentation on elements of SEARCH that fit most effectively into the emerging IPY planning documents and explore ways to enhance the synergistic effects expected from close coordination of IPY and SEARCH activities.
UR: http://psc.apl.washington.edu/search/index.html
DE: 4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
DE: 4540 Ice mechanics and air/sea/ice exchange processes
DE: 1823 Frozen ground
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
DE: 1635 Oceans (4203)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting