SASS | Synthesis of Arctic System Science

SASS I Projects Overview

Below is a summary table of the nine SASS I projects. Click on a project title for more information about each project. A PDF document with the project abstracts is also available below.

SASS I Projects Summary Table and Abstracts (115K - PDF)

Projects *Collaborative research	Principal Investigators
*A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System	Mark Serreze, CIRES Michael Steele, U. of Washington
*Sunlight and the Arctic Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean System	Don Perovich, CRREL Bonnie Light, U. of Washington Hajo Eicken, UAF
*Synthesis of Modes of Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Covariability in the Arctic System from Multivariate Century-Scale Observations	Martin Miles, ESARC Mark Serreze, CIRES
Arctic Surface Air Temperatures for the Past 100 years: Analysis and Reconstruction of an Integrated Data Set for Arctic System Science	Ignatius Rigor, U. of Washington
*Synthesis of Arctic System Carbon Cycle Research Through Model-Data Fusion Studies Using Atmospheric Inversion and Process-Based Approaches	Dave McGuire, UAF Jerry Melillo, MBL Qianiai Zhuang, MBL Michael Follows, MIT
*Greening of the Arctic-Synthesis and Models to Examine the Effects of Climate, Sea-Ice, and Terrain on Circumpolar Vegetation Changes	Skip Walker, UAF Howard Epstein, U. of Virginia
*A Synthesis of Rapid Meltwater and Ice Discharge Changes: Large Forcings from the Ice with Impacts on Global Sea Level and North Atlantic Freshwater Budgets	Mark Fahnestock, UNH Richard Alley, Penn State U. Jason Box, Ohio State U. Sarah Das, WHOI Ian Joughin, U. of Washington Martin Truffer, UAF
*Humans and Hydrology at High Latitudes	Richard Lammers, UNH Daniel White, UAF
Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Circumpolar Social-Ecological Synthesis	Gary Kofinas, UAF