Overview of North Slope of Alaska/adjacent Arctic Ocean Science issues
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (United States)
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
The following material is based on presentations made during the ARM Science Team Meeting concerning the scientific issues to be addressed at the North Slope of Alaska/Adjacent Arctic Ocean (NSA/AAO) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Site and how these and complementary issues are being addressed in other national and international programs. The scientific objectives for the NSA/AAO site, which are to be achieved in cooperation with Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) and the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE)III, include the following: The radiative effects of mixed phase and ice phase clouds, aerosols, and cloud-aerosol mixtures; Description of basic cloud microphysical properties and the influence of atmospheric thermodynamics; The relative importance of surface and advective fluxes of moisture in the formation of clouds; The sensitivity of the boundary layer clouds to large-scale vertical motion; Interactions among turbulence, radiation, and cloud microphysical processes; The radiative effects of the horizontally inhomogeneous summertime stratocumulus clouds over the horizontally inhomogeneous, melting snow/sea ice surface; Response of surface albedo and ablation as a response to energy inputs.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States). Environmental Sciences Div.
- OSTI ID:
- 83148
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940277--; ON: DE95009951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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