SASS II Projects Overview

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

PDF SASS II Projects Summary Table and Abstracts (95K - PDF)

Projects

*Collaborative research

Principal Investigators
*The Roles of Clouds and their Accomplices in Modulating the Trajectory of the Arctic System

Jennifer Francis, Rutgers U.

Stephen Vavrus, U. of Wisconsin, Madison

Axel Schweiger, U. of Washington

*Toward Reanalysis of the Arctic Climate System - Sea Ice and Ocean Reconstruction with Data Assimilation

Andrey Proshutinsky, WHOI

Jinlun Zhang, U. of Washington

Gleb Panteleev, UAF

Dmitri Nechaev, U. of Southern Mississippi

*Producing an Updated Synthesis of the Arctic's Marine Primary Production Regime and Its Controls

Patricia Matrai, BLOS

Louis Codispoti, U. of Maryland

Richard Zimmerman, ODU

Michael Steele, U. of Washington

*The Impact of Changes in Arctic Sea Ice on the Marine Planktonic Ecosystem - Synthesis and Modeling of Retrospective and Future Conditions

Jinlun Zhang, U. of Washington

Carin Ashjian, WHOI

Robert Campbell, U. of Rhode Island

Yvette Spitz, Oregon State U.

Climate Response to Future Changes in Arctic Snow Cover and Sea Ice: A New Perspective from the High-Resolution NCAR CCSM3

Clara Deser, UCAR

*The White Arctic: A Snow-Impacts Synthesis for the Terrestrial Arctic

Matthew Sturm, CRREL

Glen Liston, Colorado State U.

*Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects

Eric Wood, Princeton University

Charles Vörösmarty, UNH

Dennis Lettenmaier, U. of Washington

John Cassano, U. of Colorado

*Synthesis of Sea Ice, Climate, and Human Systems in the Arctic and Subarctic (SYNICE)

Astrid Ogilvie, U. of Colorado

Jeffrey Rogers, Ohio State U.