Boisvert, L., Webster, M., Petty, A., Markus, T., Bromwich, D., & R. Cullather (2018), Intercomparison of precipitation estimates over the Arctic Ocean and its peripheral seas from reanalyses, J. Clim., 31(20), 8441–8462, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0125.1.
Author Archive
Boisvert, L., Webster, M., Petty, A., Markus, T., Cullather, R., & D. Bromwich (2020), Intercomparison of precipitation estimates over the Southern Ocean from atmospheric reanalyses, J. Clim., doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0044.1.
Braund, S. R., P. B. Lawrence, E. G. Sears, R. K. Schraer, E. V. Regehr, B. Adams, R. T. Hepa, J. C. George, and A. L. V. Duyke. 2018. Polar Bear TEK: A Pilot Study to Inform Polar Bear Management Models. North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, Research Report NSB.DWM.RR.2018-01. Utqiaġvik, Alaska USA.
Bromaghin, J. F., T. L. McDonald, I. Stirling, A. E. Derocher, E. S. Richardson, E. V. Regehr, D. C. Douglas, G. M. Durner, T. Atwood, and S. C. Amstrup. 2015. Polar bear population dynamics in the southern Beaufort Sea during a period of sea ice decline. Ecological Applications 25:634-651. DOI: 10.1890/14-1129.1
Buckley, E.M., Farrell, S.L., Herzfeld, U., Webster, M., Trantow, T., Baney, O.N., Duncan, K., Han, H., & M. Lawson (accepted), Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2, The Cryosphere, 17, 3695–3719, doi: 10.5194/tc-17-3695-2023, 2023.
Cape, M.R., M. Vernet, M. Kahru, and G. Spreen (2014), Polynya dynamics drive primary production in the Larsen A and B embayments following ice-shelf collapse, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 572–594, doi:10.1002/2013JC009441.
Cape, M. R., M. Vernet, P. Skvarca, S. Marinsek, T. Scambos, and E. Domack (2015), Foehn winds link climate-driven warming to ice shelf evolution in Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 11,037–11,057, doi:10.1002/2015JD023465.
Carns, R.C., Light, B. and Warren, S.G. (2016), The spectral albedo of sea ice and salt crusts on the tropical ocean of Snowball Earth: II. Optical modeling, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JC011804.
Carns, R. C., R. E. Brandt, and S. G. Warren (2015), Salt precipitation in sea ice and its effect on albedo, with application to Snowball Earth, J. Geophys. Res. Ocean., 120(3), 2370–2384, doi:10.1002/2014JC010516.
Castro, S.L., G.A. Wick, S. Eastwood, M. Steele, and R.T. Tonboe, Examining the consistency of sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration in Arctic satellite products, Remote Sensing. 2023; 15(11):2908, doi:10.3390/rs15112908, 2023.
Congratulations to Cecilia, who was chosen to participate in the U.S. Fulbright Scholar program. She will spend 9 months in Norway (from mid-August 2017 to mid-May 2018) doing oceanographic research at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromsø, and at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen.
Chambault, P., C. Moesgaard Albertsen, T. A. Patterson, R. G. Hansen, O. Tervo, K. L. Laidre & M. P. Heide-Jørgensen. 2018. Sea surface temperature predicts the movements of an Arctic cetacean: the bowhead whale. Scientific Reports 8:9658. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27966
Third Pod from the Sun, the American Geophysical Union’s podcast, kicks off the month of March with PSC’s Kristin Laidre.
Chiodi, A. M., C. Zhang, E. D. Cokelet, Q. Yang, C. W. Mordy, C. Gentemann, J. Cross, N. Lawrence-Slavas, C. Meinig, M. Steele, D. E. Harrison, P. Stabeno, H. Tabisola, D. Zhang, E. Burger, and K. O’Brien, Exploring the Alaskan Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone with Saildrones, Frontiers in Marine Science, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.640697, 2021.
E. Ciracì, I. Velicogna and T. C. Sutterley. Mass Balance of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian High Arctic, Using Time-Variable Gravity from GRACE and Altimetry Data from ICESat and CryoSat-2. Remote Sensing, 10(11): 1817, 2018. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1817
Codispoti, L.A., V. Kelly, A. Thessen, P. Matrai, S. Suttles, V. Hill, M. Steele, and B. Light, Synthesis of primary production in the Arctic Ocean: III. Nitrate and phosphate based estimates of net community production, Prog. Oceanogr., 110, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.006, 2013.
Collow, T.W., W. Wang, A. Kumar, and J. Zhang, Improving Arctic sea ice prediction using PIOMAS initial sea ice thickness in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, Mon. Wea. Rev., 143, 4618-4630, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-15-0097.1, 2015.
News station KING 5 interviews PSC’s Jamie Morison, as environmental policies change under the new administration resulting in strong, public response. Watch the clip of the PSC oceanographer discussing his own research observations, Arctic data available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and the need to continue polar research.
Congratulations to PSC’s Sarah Dewey for passing her PhD Defense! She presented her research earlier this month with her talk, Evolving Ice-Ocean Dynamics of the Western Arctic.
Conn, P.B., E. E. Moreland, E. V. Regehr, E. L. Richmond, F. Cameron, and P.L. Boveng. 2016. Using simulation to evaluate wildlife survey designs: polar bears and seals in the Chukchi Sea. Royal Society Open Science. doi: 10.1098/rsos.150561
The publication Conservation Biology announced its awards for 2016 and PSC’s Kristin Laidre is the lead author of the paper that earned the second highest altmetric score, Arctic Marine Mammal Population Status, Sea Ice Habitat Loss, and Conservation Recommendations for the 21st Century.
Laidre led the collaborative effort which involved PSC colleagues Harry Stern and Eric Regehr (at present), along with other researchers from Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and other US institutions. Congratulations to Kristin and the team!
Cottier, F., Steele, M., and Nilsen, F., Sea ice and Arctic Ocean oceanography, in Sea Ice, Third Edition, D. N. Thomas (Ed.), doi:10.1002/9781118778371.ch7, 2017.
Crait, J.C., E.V. Regehr, and M. Ben-David. 2015. Indirect effects of bioinvasions in Yellowstone Lake: The response of river otters to declines in native cutthroat trout. Biological Conservation 191:596-605. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.042
Danielson, S.L., et al., including K. Aagaard and R. Woodgate, “Coupled wind-forced controls of the Bering–Chukchi shelf circulation and the Bering Strait throughflow: Ekman transport, continental shelf waves, and variations of the Pacific–Arctic sea surface height gradient,” Prog. Oceanogr., 125, 40-61, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.006, 2014.
PSC’s Daniel Shapero is participating in the Applied Physics Laboratory Seminar Series — Fall 2016. On Thursday, October 6, 2:30 PM in 512 Benjamin Hall, UW, Daniel will give a talk describing some of his work in the field of inverse or data assimilation, both in the methodology and the application to major outlet glaciers in Greenland.
The Arctic Data Center, supported by NSF, has highlighted Karen Junge’s work investigating rotten ice. Data has been collected on both the physical and biological properties of rotten ice and is available from the center.
Peter E. D. Davis, Camille Lique, Helen L. Johnson, and John D. Guthrie, 2016: Competing Effects of Elevated Vertical Mixing and Increased Freshwater Input on the Stratification and Sea Ice Cover in a Changing Arctic Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 46, 1531–1553, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0174.1.
De Steur, L., M. Steele, E. Hansen, J. Morison, I. Polyakov, S. M. Olsen, H. Melling, F. A. McLaughlin, R. Kwok, W. M. Smethie Jr., and P. Schlosser, Hydrographic changes in the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean with focus on an upper ocean freshwater anomaly between 2007 and 2010, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 4699–4715, doi:10.1002jgrc.20341, 2013.
DeGrandpre, M., W. Evans, M.-L. Timmermans, R. Krishfield, B. Williams, and M. Steele, Changes in the Arctic Ocean carbon cycle with diminishing ice cover, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, doi:10.1029/2020GL088051, 2020.
Global warming not so global? PSC postdoc Aaron Donohoe has co-authored a study recently published in Nature Geoscience showing how and why the Antarctic Ocean has not warmed in comparison to what has been observed in the Arctic.
Dewey, S., Morison, J., Kwok, R., Dickinson, S., Morison, D. & Andersen, R., 2018. Arctic ice-ocean coupling and gyre equilibration observed with remote sensing. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076229
Ding, Q., Schweiger, A., L’Heureux, M., Steig, E. J., Battisti, D. S., Johnson, N. C., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Po-Chedley, S., Zhang, Q., Harnos, K., Bushuk, M., Markle, B., and Baxter, I. (2018), Fingerprints of internal drivers of Arctic sea ice loss in observations and model simulations. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0256-8
Ding, Y., J. A. Carton, G. A. Chepurin, M. Steele, and S. Hakkinen, Seasonal heat and freshwater cycles in the Arctic Ocean in CMIP5 coupled models, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JC011124, 2016.
Ding, Q., A. Schweiger, M. L’Heureux, D. S. Battisti, S. Po-Chedley, N. C. Johnson, E. Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, K. Harnos, Q. Zhang, R. Eastman and E. J. Steig (2017), Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate3241
Doherty, S., M. Steele, I. Rigor, and S. G. Warren, Interannual variations of light-absorbing particles in snow on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD024018, 2015.
Doherty, S., M. Steele, I. Rigor, and S. G. Warren, Springtime light-absorbing particles in snow north of Greenland 2008-2013, J. Geophys. Res., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD024018, 2015.
Durner, G. M., Laidre, K. L., and York, G .S., eds. 2018. Polar Bears: Proceedings of the 18th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, 7–11 June 2016, Anchorage, Alaska. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. xxx + 207pp.
DuVivier, A., DeRepentigny, P., Holland, M., Webster, M., Kay, J., & D. Perovich (2020), Going with the floe: tracking CESM Large Ensemble sea ice in the Arctic provides context for ship-based observations, The Cryosphere, doi:10.5194/tc-14-1259-2020.
What is traditional knowledge and how can it help us understand climate change? Online news source, Earther, talks to Kristin Laidre about her recently published research involving some of the Inuit communities of East Greenland. Inuit sustenance hunters were interviewed about their livelihood, the landscape of their homeland, and more to form a picture of how things have changed over time.
Axel Schweiger, Jinlun Zhang, and Mike Steele are co-authors on an article that earned the Editor’s Highlight for AGU’s recent Geophysical Research Letters. Read on to learn why the article, Collapse of the 2017 Winter Beaufort High: A Response to Thinning Sea Ice?, drew such attention…
Matt Alkire leads the PSC team of authors that earned the Editor’s Highlight for AGU’s recent JGR: Oceans issue. Read on to learn why Matt’s article, A meteoric water budget for the Arctic Ocean, was singled out…
Eicken, H., A. Mahoney, J. Jones, T. Heinrichs, D. Broderson, H. Statscewich, T. Weingartner, M. Stuefer, T. Ravens, M. Ivey, A. Merten, and J. Zhang, Sustained observations of changing Arctic coastal and marine environments and their potential contribution to Arctic maritime domain awareness: A case study in northern Alaska, Arctic, 71, 1-15., http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4622, 2018.
APL-UW has produced a video about Polar Science Weekend, an annual public outreach event centering around polar research. Watch APL-UW scientists, including veteran PSW participants PSC’s Ben Smith and Wendy Ermold, explain their research in ways that apply the principles of physics via hands-on activities to the community.
In July 2023, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) partnered with the 144th Airlift Squadron of the Alaska Air National Guard to deploy five different types of weather buoys across more than 1,000 nautical miles of the Arctic Ocean. Such deployments are critical for maintaining the Arctic Observing Network (AON), which provides observations for weather and ice forecasting and related research.
The 144th Airlift Squadron (the “Arctic Wolves”) and part of the 176th Wing (the “Arctic Guardians”) conducted the flights on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. In addition to personnel from the 176th Wing, participants included PSC’s Ignatius Rigor along with professors and scientists from the University of Maryland as well as ONR reservists.