Sea ice
extend in the summer 2008 is expected to be low but is not going to beat
the minimum from 2007. A revised outlook has been recently published by
AWI scientists (http://www.damocles-eu.org/artman/uploads/ou).
Monthly reports with Arctic sea ice outlook are prepared regularly
and published by the
Study of
Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH). The June 2008 report contains
also an sea ice outlook for September.
The sea ice experts from the Norwegian Polar Institute contribute
regularly to the Arctic Sea Ice Outlook with the data from Fram Strait
and Greenland Sea (contact at NPI: Sebastian Gerland at:
gerland@npolar.no
or Harvey Goodwin at: goodwin@npolar.no)
The outcome of the models will be compared with the reality as
DAMOCLES (Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing Capabilities for
Long-term Environment Studies) dispatches 11 cruises to the Arctic this
summer.
The 2008 DAMOCLES cruise schedule:
Cruise: Oceania cruise
Vessel: R/V Oceania
Dates: June 19 – July 3, 2008
Location: Norwegian, Barents & Greenland Seas and Fram Strait
Purpose: Atlantic Water transport (volume, heat and salt) into the
Arctic Ocean and its variabilities
Contact: Jan Piechura: piechura@iopan.gda.pl
URL:
http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceania/oceania.html
Cruise: ARKXXIII-2
Vessel: R/V Polarstern
Dates: July 04 – August 10, 2008
Location: Section across Fram Strait at 79°N:
Purpose: CTD section, exchange of mooring array and deployment of glider
Contact: Ursula Schauer: Ursula.Schauer@awi.de
Gerhardt Kattner: Gerhard.Kattner@awi.de
URL:
http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/ships/polarstern/
Cruise: ASCOS
Vessel: R/V Oden
Dates: July 23 – September 22, 2008
Location: North East Passage
Purpose: Study low level clouds
Contact: Michael Tjernstrom: michaelt@misu.su.se
Caroline Leck: lina@misu.su.se
URL: http://www.ascos.se
Cruise: TBA
Vessel: R/V XueLong
Dates: July 31 – September 13, 2008
Location: High Arctic
Purpose: TBA
Contact: Jari Haapala: Jari.Haapala@fimr.fi
Cruise: TBA
Vessel: RV Håkon Mosby
Dates: August 4 – August 18, 2008
Location: Along 78 45 N (Fram strait)
Purpose: Deploy three moorings; two tomography moorings and a MMP
Contact: Hanne Sagen: hanne.sagen@nersc.no
Cruise: Nordic LSBI
Vessel: R/V Yakov Smirnitskii
Dates: August 12 – September 24, 2008
Location: North East passage
Purpose: Investigate the fluxes and transformation of carbon, from the
terrestrial organic carbon input by river runoff and by coastal erosion
Contact: Leif Anderson: leifand@chem.gu.se
Göran Björk: gobj@gvc.gu.se
Cruise: ARKXXIII-3
Vessel: R/V Polarstrern
Dates: August 15 – October 19, 2008
Location: Central Arctic and East Siberian Sea
Purpose: Cross-basin CTD section and deployment of ice-tethered
platforms
Contact: Ursula Schauer: Ursula.Schauer@awi.de
Dr. Wilfried Jokat: Wilfried.Jokat@awi.de
URL:
http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/ships/polarstern/
Cruise: TBA
Vessel: R/V Lance
Dates: August 30 – September 19, 2008
Location: Fram strait
Purpose: TBA
Contact: Edmond Hansen: edmond.hansen@npolar.no
Cruise: TBA
Vessel: Jan Mayen
Dates: September 05 – September 18, 2008
Location: Barents sea
Purpose: Recovering and redeploying the moorings
Contact: Cecilie Mauritzen: cecilie.mauritzen@met.no
Cruise: TBA
Vessel: RV Håkon Mosby
Dates: September 18 – October 1, 2008
Location: Storfjorden, Svalbard
Purpose: i) Service bottom-mounted current profilers monitoring the
dense overflow water from Storfjorden, ii) conduct turbulence profiles
to study mixing of the overflow, iii) conduct measurements off Bear
Island to study internal wave induced mixing near the critical latitude
for the semi-diurnal period.
Contact: Ilker Fer: Ilker.Fer@bjerknes.uib.no
Cruise: TBA
Vessel: K/V Svalbard
Dates: September 19 – September 29, 2008
Location: Along 78 45 N (Fram strait)
Purpose: Positioning of transponders, download of first data set using
acoustic modems, record bathymetry data, listen to acoustic source and
to acoustic ambient noise using a hydrophone from the ship.
Contact: Hanne Sagen: hanne.sagen@nersc.no
Read more:
Source: IPY.org;
DAMOCLES website
