Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Sea Ice Coupling

世界已将注意力转向北极，这在很大程度上是因为海冰覆盖面积迅速缩小。开放水域面积的增加已经对我们星球的能源和淡水平衡产生了深远的影响。这项研究将利用卫星、现场数据和气候模型来提高我们对海冰变化如何促进北冰洋大范围淡水-海洋耦合以及这如何影响大范围天气和海洋环流模式、极地生态系统和海洋生物地球化学、沿海社区生计、海洋活动和资源开采的理解。

The world has turned its attention to the Arctic, largely because of the rapidly shrinking sea ice cover. The increase in open water area is already having profound impacts on the energy and freshwater balance of our planet. This study will use satellite, in situ data and climate models to improve our understanding of how changes in sea ice contribute to the large-scale freshwater-marine coupling of the Arctic Ocean and how this influences large-scale weather and ocean circulation patterns, polar ecosystems and marine biogeochemistry, livelihoods of coastal communities, marine activity and resource extraction.