Collaborative Research: Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS)

合作研究：北极模拟和观测综合论坛（FAMOS）

• 批准号: 1313614
• 负责人: Andrey Proshutinsky
• 金额: $ 51.14万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1313614&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Forum; Arctic; Modeling

The overall goal of FAMOS is a better understanding of the arctic climate system (with a focus on the marine environment) through the use of improving numerical models and observational tactics and strategies. The FAMOS project is focused on enhancing collaboration and coordination among arctic marine modelers, theoreticians, and observationalists. International teams of such scientists are represented at all levels of project activities starting from generating hypotheses, to planning, and to finalizing analyses. This work will be managed via teleconferences, virtual workshops, newsletters, and annual workshops with 1-2 day schools for young and developing arctic researchers. FAMOS will support synthesis across the suite of arctic models and observations by (i) Holding scientific workshops and schools for new investigators including virtual teleconferences; (ii) Creating teams of modelers, theoreticians, and observationalists to work on topical issues of arctic sea ice and oceanic dynamics and thermodynamics; (iii) Conducting collaboration with other similar projects focused on other aspects of arctic/global climate (atmospheric, terrestrial, cryospheric); (iv) Disseminating findings to broader communities and involve the larger community in discussions, coordinated modeling and observational field experiments; (v) Training a new generation of ocean and sea-ice observationalists and modelers.Intellectual Merit: Although the future focus of FAMOS projects will depend to a large degree on the interests of its participants, the vision is that there will be three broad areas of interest. The first area includes the use of observations for model forcing (including initial and boundary conditions) and validation. The second area is improvement of model numerics and parameterization of different processes (e.g. mixing, advection, eddy-driven processes) and implementation of new methods/algorithms/physics. The third area of model improvement will be the inclusion of processes important for the Arctic (e.g. fresh water dynamics, slope/basin exchange, wave-ice interaction, and CO2 air-sea flux, ecosystem changes). These research themes specifically address the the major program question ?What do changes in the arctic system imply for the future?? and to understand the behavior of the arctic system? past, present, and future.Broader Impacts: FAMOS is an important and unique component of present-day arctic studies because it will help improve our understanding of oceanic and sea-ice processes. From this view point, the most significant FAMOS contributions will be: development of a regional and improvement of global climate models; identification of model errors and causes of these errors and model discrepancies, recommendations for improvements of existing regional coupled ice-ocean models and GCMs by implementing new physics and parameterizations for arctic processes. The coordinated community approach to the investigation of Arctic Ocean variability is the only way to assess the degree of uncertainty in results and conclusions made by different modelers, scientific groups, or institutions. One of the highest impacts of the FAMOS activity is educational (including the FAMOS school) because it promotes the growth of young scientists participating in the project, provides guidelines for critical analysis of the existing models, and fruitful improvements and developments of the arctic models by a new generation of arctic modelers.

FAMOS 的总体目标是通过使用改进的数值模型以及观测策略和策略，更好地了解北极气候系统（重点关注海洋环境）。 FAMOS 项目的重点是加强北极海洋建模者、理论家和观测学家之间的合作和协调。由此类科学家组成的国际团队参与了项目活动的各个层面，从提出假设到规划，再到最终分析。这项工作将通过电话会议、虚拟研讨会、时事通讯以及为年轻和发展中的北极研究人员举办的 1-2 日制学校举办的年度研讨会进行管理。 FAMOS 将通过以下方式支持综合北极模型和观测数据：(i) 为新研究人员举办科学研讨会和学校，包括虚拟电话会议； (ii) 创建由建模者、理论家和观测学家组成的团队，研究北极海冰以及海洋动力学和热力学的热门问题； (iii) 与其他类似项目开展合作，重点关注北极/全球气候的其他方面（大气、陆地、冰冻圈）； (iv) 向更广泛的社区传播研究结果，并让更大的社区参与讨论、协调建模和实地观测实验； (v) 培训新一代海洋和海冰观测员和建模者。 智力优势：虽然 FAMOS 项目的未来重点在很大程度上取决于参与者的兴趣，但我们的愿景是，将有三个广泛的兴趣领域。第一个领域包括使用观测数据进行模型强迫（包括初始条件和边界条件）和验证。第二个领域是模型数值的改进和不同过程的参数化（例如混合、平流、涡流驱动过程）以及新方法/算法/物理的实施。模型改进的第三个领域将包括对北极重要的过程（例如淡水动力学、斜坡/盆地交换、波冰相互作用、二氧化碳海气通量、生态系统变化）。这些研究主题专门解决了主要计划问题？北极系统的变化对未来意味着什么？并了解北极系统的行为？过去、现在和未来。更广泛的影响：FAMOS 是当今北极研究的重要且独特的组成部分，因为它将有助于提高我们对海洋和海冰过程的理解。从这个角度来看，FAMOS 最重要的贡献将是： 开发区域气候模型并改进全球气候模型；识别模型错误以及这些错误和模型差异的原因，通过对北极过程实施新的物理和参数化来改进现有区域耦合冰海模型和GCM的建议。协调一致的社区方法来调查北冰洋变化是评估不同建模者、科学团体或机构得出的结果和结论的不确定性程度的唯一方法。 FAMOS活动最大的影响之一是教育（包括FAMOS学校），因为它促进了参与该项目的年轻科学家的成长，为现有模型的批判性分析提供了指导，并为新一代北极建模者对北极模型进行了富有成效的改进和发展。