Call for Planning Letters
Arctic and Global Prediction Program
Office of Naval Research
Submission deadline: Friday, 27 May 2011
For further information, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/ONR-CallForPlanningLetters
The Arctic and Global Prediction Program at The Office of Naval Research
announces a call for planning letters for research to be supported by
core program funds.
The Arctic and Global Prediction Program is motivated by the rapid
decline in summer ice extent that has occurred in recent years. This has
prompted renewed U.S. Navy interest in understanding and predicting the
arctic physical environment at a variety of time and space scales. The
ability to predict the location of the ice edge, the space-time
evolution of the ice cover, and the ice thickness will be particularly
critical to safe Navy operations in the Arctic. To achieve this, models
integrating the ocean, waves, ice, and atmosphere must be able to
represent the physical processes, interactions, and feedbacks involved
in the seasonal evolution of ice extent, area, thickness, and volume.
The core program has three focus areas:
- Improving understanding of the physical environment and processes
in the Arctic Ocean.
- Investigating new technologies (e.g., sensors, platforms, and
communications) for sustained operation and observation in the
challenging arctic environment.
- Developing integrated ocean-ice-wave-atmosphere earth system
models for improved prediction on time scales of days to months.
Submission deadline: Friday, 27 May 2011.
For further information, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/ONR-CallForPlanningLetters.