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

FAMOS的总体目标是通过使用改进的数值模式和观测战术和战略，更好地了解北极气候系统（重点是海洋环境）。FAMOS项目的重点是加强北极海洋建模者、理论家和观测者之间的合作与协调。这些科学家组成的国际团队在项目活动的各个层面都有代表，从产生假设到规划，再到最后的分析。这项工作将通过电话会议、虚拟研讨会、通讯以及为年轻和发展中的北极研究人员举办的1-2天学校的年度研讨会来管理。FAMOS将通过以下方式支持北极一整套模式和观测的综合：(i)为新调查人员举办科学讲习班和学校，包括虚拟电话会议；建立由建模人员、理论家和观测人员组成的小组，研究北极海冰、海洋动力学和热力学等专题问题；与以北极/全球气候（大气、陆地、冰冻圈）的其他方面为重点的其他类似项目进行合作；向更广泛的社区传播调查结果，并使更多的社区参与讨论、协调建模和实地观察实验；训练新一代的海洋和海冰观测者和建模者。知识价值：尽管FAMOS项目的未来重点将在很大程度上取决于其参与者的兴趣，但其愿景是将有三个广泛的兴趣领域。第一个领域包括利用观测资料进行模式强迫（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/物理的实现。模式改进的第三个领域将是纳入对北极重要的过程（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）。这些研究主题具体地解决了主要的项目问题？北极系统的变化对未来意味着什么？为了理解北极系统的行为？过去，现在和未来。更广泛的影响：FAMOS是当今北极研究的一个重要而独特的组成部分，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：开发区域和改进全球气候模式；识别模式误差以及这些误差和模式差异的原因，建议通过对北极过程实施新的物理和参数化来改进现有的区域耦合冰海模式和gcm。北冰洋变率调查的协调社区方法是评估不同建模者、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活动的最大影响之一是教育（包括FAMOS学校），因为它促进了参与项目的年轻科学家的成长，为现有模式的批判性分析提供了指导方针，并由新一代北极建模者对北极模式进行了富有成效的改进和发展。

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.