Primary Convener:
Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center

Convener:
Matthew Shupe, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL
Eva-Lou Edwards, NASA Langley Research Center
Melinda Webster, University of Washington

Early Career Convener:
Eva-Lou Edwards, NASA Langley Research Center

Chair:
Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center
Matthew Shupe, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA PSL
Eva-Lou Edwards, NASA Langley Research Center

The Arctic Basin coupled environmental system is changing rapidly, with dramatic implications for climate, weather, ecosystems, and society. Importantly, many of these changes and processes are interdependent. For example, thinner and less extensive sea ice can impact the flow of heat, the cloud lifecycle, the exchange of gases, seasonal melt and freeze of ice, ice dynamics, light available for biological productivity, and many other related physical, biogeochemical, and ecological processes. This session welcomes field, laboratory, remote sensing, and modeling studies that examine all aspects of the changing Arctic coupled system, especially including processes that cut across the atmosphere, sea ice, snow, ocean, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem. Submissions are encouraged that incorporate cross-disciplinary research topics, examine interseasonal linkages, conduct observation-model synthesis, and/or bridge the spatial and temporal scales between in situ observations and large scale remote-sensing and modeling. Contributions from recent Arctic field campaigns (e.g., MOSAiC and ARCSIX) are particularly relevant.

Index Terms
3311 Clouds and aerosols
0750 Sea ice
0758 Remote sensing
4504 Air|sea interactions

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy

Cross-Listed:
A - Atmospheric Sciences
OS - Ocean Sciences

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering