Interannual to Decadal Temperature Variability of Arctic Ocean Waters

北冰洋水性质的年际变化将通过精心定义的统计减少数据集进行调查，这些数据集用于准备最近根据Gore- Chernomyrdin环境双边协议发布的多年网格化场。统计工作将与圣彼得堡北极和南极研究所的俄罗斯同事合作进行。本研究的目的是：(1)对各海盆的北冰洋温度场进行年际对比研究；(2)将波动与源区大气强迫的变化联系起来；(3)验证北冰洋波动与北大西洋涛动相关的假设。

Aagaard/Swift The interannual variability of water properties in the Arctic Ocean will be investigated with a carefully defined statistical reduction of the data set used to prepare the multi-year gridded fields recently released under the Gore- Chernomyrdin environmental bilateral agreement. The statistical work will be conducted in collaboration with Russian colleagues at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersburg. The purpose of the work is: (1) to carefully examine the Arctic Ocean temperature field from the various basins on a year-to-year basin; (2) to relate the fluctuations to changes in atmospheric forcing in the source regions; and (3) to test the hypothesis that the Arctic Ocean fluctuations are correlated with the North Atlantic Oscillation.