Call for Session Abstracts
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018
11-16 February
Portland, Oregon
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 6 September 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2018/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and the Oceanography Society are currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-16 February 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
Conveners of the following session invite abstract submissions:
SESSION 29748: North Atlantic - Nordic seas - Arctic Ocean heat exchanges: Processes and Impacts
Session Chairs: Renske Gelderloos, Celine Heuze, Marius Arthun, and Kerstin Jochumsen.
Exchange flows between the subpolar North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean via the Nordic Seas are key components of the global climate system. The southward deep overflows feed the abyssal limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation affecting global climate, and the northward heat transport by the Atlantic Water affects Arctic sea ice and land ice cover, ecosystems, European weather, and global climate. While knowledge of the magnitude of these fluxes and of their driving mechanisms are key to predicting changes on both the Atlantic and the Arctic sides, the processes and timescales involved are poorly understood.
This session invites contributions that address any of the exchange flows, their driving mechanisms, and downstream impacts of changes on either the Atlantic or the Arctic side. It aims to bring together observational, theoretical, and numerical work on issues including but not limited to dynamics and kinematics of the regional ocean circulation, local and remote impacts of changes in oceanic heat transports on the atmosphere, sea ice, marine terminating glaciers, and biogeochemistry, and their linkages and predictability.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/os18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session29748
For questions, contact:
Renske Gelderloos
Email: rgelder2 [at] jhu.edu