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What we’ve done since June 2007

What we’ve done since June 2007. Michael Steele & Wendy Ermold Polar Science Center / Applied Physics Laboratory / University of Washington, Seattle WA USA. Web site Animation script consultation SST study updated through 2007 Freshwater studies with (i) Polyakov & (ii) Rawlins/Serreze

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What we’ve done since June 2007

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  1. What we’ve done since June 2007 Michael Steele & Wendy Ermold Polar Science Center / Applied Physics Laboratory / University of Washington, Seattle WA USA • Web site • Animation script consultation • SST study updated through 2007 • Freshwater studies with (i) Polyakov & (ii) Rawlins/Serreze • PHC update • Start of seasonal/annual mean PP analysis

  2. The web page

  3. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? People

  4. Graphics How to organize our new synthetic plots?

  5. Data How to organize our new synthetic DATA?

  6. Outreach Animation…

  7. Links • Others? • Announcement on ArcticInfo?

  8. Private Section Username: mas Password: st33l3

  9. Animation: 1:30 pm today • SST study: • Refresher on bias & binning issues/techniques • Updated through 2007 • …using satellite data & model output

  10. SPATIAL BIAS Example: East Siberian + eastern Laptev Seas Raw Data 50km bin averaged Mean SST = 2.2 C Mean SST = 1.9 C sparse COLD profiles dense WARM profiles Temperature (ºC) PP binning: getting done!

  11. data cold warmer hot Fake trends Year 1 Year 3 Year 2 steady state ocean spatially biased sampling  fake regional-average warming trend Solution: subtract out the mean spatial field Trend analysis: still to do

  12. Mean summer (Jul-Aug-Sep)Sea Surface Temperature (SST)(0-10 m) Beaufort-W World Ocean Database ’05 (in situ data) summer 50 km bins

  13. recent warming recent warming recent warming 3.25 std dev 3.05 std dev insitu WOD’05 Summer (jul/aug/sep)SST trends:regional anomalies satellite Reynolds et al smoothed summer SST (C) mean = 2.7°C mean = 0.4°C (a) Beaufort-E (b) Beaufort-W summer SST (C) mean = 5.9°C mean = 2.3°C (c) Bering St (d) ESS+ Laptev summer SST (C) mean = 2.9°C mean = 3.1°C (f) Chukchi (e) Kara  Is warming starting to matter to PP?

  14. Ocean heat fluxes: summer 2007 (Jul-Aug-Sept) …using Jinlun Zhang’s ice-ocean model Lateral heat flux convergence Surface heating (Fsw) ice ice Chukchi + w. Beaufort Everywhere! ocean currents are important north of Alaska but most places, it’s solar heating

  15. Freshwater studies Terrestrial P-E incr. ’96/’97 Lake discharge incr. ’98 Mackenzie R. River discharge incr. ’96 – ‘98 24% fresher with variable river discharge Sea ice melt decr. ’97/’98 Beaufort gyre FW incr. ’97-’02 Ocean shelf FW incr. ’96 • Polyakov et al. • …in press • Russian shelf anomalies are: • (a) out of phase with central Arctic Ocean • (b) much smaller than central Arctic Ocean anomalies (2) Rawlins et al. …in prep.

  16. PHC update • Fram Strait / EGC • Bering St / • Siberian shelves • MLD lobes …later …in progress…

  17. Seasonal/annual mean PP analysis …later…

  18. Ongoing: • Update our T, S data base • with data from 1990s & 2000s • Barely started: • MLD/stratification temporal change study

  19. 0 model obs • But! • Model’s • heat content • underestimated? Depth (m) 50 Beaufort Slope (70.8°N, 140°W)Aug 1, 2007 SST + MLD = heat content overestimate 100 2 4 -2 0 Temperature (°C) Maybe not everywhere… Heat content uncertainty Chukchi Borderland(75.7°N, 156°W)Aug 7, 2007 satellite SST model 0 XCP 50 Depth (m) 100 0 2 4 -2 Temperature (°C) • Conclusions: • Ocean transport < shortwave …probably • Need further analysis of the in situ IPY data! Courtesy of J. Morison, F. McLaughlin, A. Proshutinsky

  20. Temperature (ºC) WOD’05data distribution,colored by: Temperature Years Earliest Year 0-10 m July, Aug, Sept

  21. Temporal Bias Raw data histograms

  22. ^ The solution: Multiple Regression T = a + bx + cy + dPHC(x,y) + eyear spatial field Anomalies are defined relative to the mean spatial field over a given time period. …no “intra-year” predictor

  23. 2007: What a year! Max Anom  5°C Temperature Anomaly (C) July-Aug-Septsatellite SSTanomalies(rel to 1982-2007) 2000 2001 2002 1982-2007: boring! 2005 2004 2003 2006 2007 Sept 16

  24. lateral heat flux convergence net ocean heating How much warming is from ocean transport? fadv Russia ice 20-30% 100% Alaska -1 -0.5 0 +0.5 +1 Jul-Aug-Sep 2007 fadv

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