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KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Workshop on the Dynamics of Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Interactions in High-Latitudes (HighDyn)

Awarded: NOK 59,999

HighDyn aims to summarise our understanding and descriptions of small-scale processes that determine the air-sea-ice coupling in the high-latitude climate system. The marginal ice zone (MIZ) is an area where we find a unique range of air-sea-ice coupling regimes unobserved at other latitudes that strongly affect high latitude weather and climate. Hence, correct representations of the high-latitude coupling regimes will help to assess regional forecasts and global scale climate modelling results and aid us to interpret their projections for the future. A usual problem is that unresolved processes in numerical models are often designed and tuned to perform best in low and mid latitude climates, thereby causing systematic biases in Polar Regions that add to uncertainties of regional and global predictions. HighDyn will thus also try to assess our current capabilities for predictive skill in high latitudes. This holistic workshop will bring together atmospheric, ice, and oceanic scientists, as well as observa tionalists and modellers from all over the world. The ultimate goal of HighDyn is to summarise our process understanding related to our model representations, thereby assessing uncertainties and understanding our climate projection capabilities and formul ating an extended research agenda for the community proposing a concerted way forward to ensure a coordinated and productive scientific progress.

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KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima