Principal areas of activity are directed to: - observations of changes in the arctic system important to climate change, including the state of the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and ecosystems; - studies of arctic system processes that may produce significant feedbacks tothe global system; - development of models based on process studies to predict the consequences of global change for the arctic environment and to predict the global consequences of changes occurring within the Arctic; - compilation of a record of past environmental variability; - coupling of paleoclimatic and modern observational records to improve quantitative reconstructions of past conditions for better evaluation of modeling results.
National Science Foundation Arctic System Science Program
FY 2000: $16,000,000