Session Announcement and Call for Papers
Warming of the Intermediate Water Layer in the Eurasian Arctic: Causes
and Consequences
2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting
2-7 March 2008
Orlando, Florida
Abstract Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 2 October 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/
Papers are invited for Session 122: "Warming of the Intermediate Water
Layer in the Eurasian Arctic: Causes and Consequences" being convened at
the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting on 2-7 March 2008 in Orlando, Florida.
The meeting is co-sponsored by the American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography, American Geophysical Union, The Oceanography Society, and
Estuarine Research Federation.
Session Description:
Recent observations suggest that hydrographic conditions in the Arctic
Ocean are changing rapidly. First of all these changes are manifested in
substantial increase of temperature in the Atlantic Water layer. The
beginning of the present temperature increase dates back to 1999 when
the warm anomaly was detected in Fram Strait. In 2004 it reached the
Laptev Sea slope having propagated along the continental margin of the
Nansen Basin. Observations in summer 2006 have shown further warming of
Atlantic Water in Fram Strait and north of Svalbard, clearly indicating
that anomalous warm conditions in the Eurasian Basin will remain during
the nearest years. What remains unclear is to what degree this warming
may be attributed to long-term trends or to multi-decadal fluctuations?
What are possible implications of this warming for the arctic ice cover?
Does this warming affect the marginal seas through the cross-margin
exchange? What is the impact of this anomalous temperature regime on
biogeochemical cycling and arctic ecosystems? To address these and other
related issues this session invites presentations focused on new
oceanographic, ice, and biogeochemical observations, historical data
analysis, and modeling in the Eurasian Basin and adjoining marginal
seas.
Organizers:
Igor Dmitrenko
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: igordm [at] iarc.uaf.edu
Leif Anderson
University of Goteborg, Sweden
E-mail: eifand [at] chem.gu.se
Louis Fortier
Laval University
E-mail: louis.fortier [at] bio.ulaval.ca
Vladimir Ivanov
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: vivanov [at] iarc.uaf.edu
For further information and to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://aslo.org/meetings/orlando2008/