HR: 17:45h
AN: C54A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: NSF-ARCSS Freshwater Initiative (FWI): Synthesis as Coordination of Thought to Discover Emergent System Properties
AU: * Vorosmarty, C J
EM: charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Water Systems Analysis Group Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Hinzman, L D
EM: ffldh@uaf.edu
AF: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering 437 Duckering Building, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5860 United States
AU: Pundsack, J W
EM: jonathan.pundsack@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Water Systems Analysis Group Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AB: The NSF-ARCSS program is undergoing a purposeful move toward system-wide and synthetic thinking. As part of this broader agenda, the NSF-ARCSS Freshwater Initiative (FWI) is embarking on its own synthesis. FWI synthesis has been organized around two fundamental approaches. The first avenue is a consolidation of existing quantitative information for constructing a comprehensive freshwater budget linking fluxes and stocks through the climate / terrestrial system, oceans, and sea-ice. The second avenue involves linkages of observational studies of paleo, historic, and contemporary water systems and simulation models of their behavior. These efforts represent both inductive and deductive approaches, and the FWI uses an operational definition of synthesis as a coordination of thought to discover emergent system properties to detect and understand Arctic water cycle change. This discussion will focus on recent results of analysis with acknowledgement of input from a broad set of FWI researchers.
DE: 9315 Arctic region
DE: 4536 Hydrography
DE: 1655 Water cycles (1836)
DE: 1836 Hydrologic budget (1655)
SC: Cryosphere [C]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting