Our central geophysical objective is to determine how sea ice and the polar oceans respond to and influence the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere. Our primary technical objective is to determine how best to incorporate satellite measurements in an ice/ocean model.
Other parameter groups: Arctic Ocean surface heat and mass balance ice dynamics sea-ice extent/thickness/dynamics surface radiation and cloud forcing polar cloud dynamics arctic atmospheric budgets and dynamics Arctic Basin 2-m air temperature ocean salinity and temperature