POWRE: A Study of the Influence of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the Polar Ocean Regions: A Student and Scientist Partnership

ENSO循环是公认的全球尺度年际气候变率的最大来源。最近的研究表明，在热带太平洋观测到的ENSO信号与南极罗斯海的海面温度和海冰浓度之间存在统计学上显著的关系。这项工作将在这个项目中得到扩展，我们将在高中生和PI之间建立真正的学生-科学家伙伴关系，以调查ENSO对极地海洋气候的影响程度。在项目的第一阶段，学生将被介绍到地球系统的各个组成部分和他们将要研究的现象。在第二阶段，学生们将从寻找极地海洋气候的数据开始。他们将与PI一起确定数据的质量及其在研究中使用的适当性。将对数据进行空间检查，并对极地海洋进行空间平均，以产生时间序列。空间分析将用于寻找变化模式，并将时间序列与ENSO记录进行比较，以确定ENSO记录与极地海洋地区气候之间存在的关系。

9752998 Ledley The ENSO cycle is the largest recognized source of interannual climate variability on a global scale. Recent work has shown that there is a statistically significant relationship between the ENSO signal observed in the tropical Pacific Ocean and the sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration in the Ross Sea of Antarctica. This work will be extended in this program in which we will develop a true student-scientist partnership between high school students and the PI to investigate the extent to which the ENSO affects the climate of the polar oceans. In the first phase of the project students will be introduced to the various components of the Earth system and the phenomena they will be investigating. In the second phase students will begin by finding data about the climate in the polar oceans. They will, with the PI, determine the quality of the data and its appropriateness for use in the study. Data will be examined spatially and spatially averaged over the polar oceans to produce time series. The spatial analysis will be used to look for patterns of change, and the time series will be compared to the ENSO record to determine the relationships that exist between the ENSO record and the climate of the polar ocean regions.