Greenland sea convection mechanisms and their climatic implications (CONVECTION)

Objective

CONVICTION aims to assess open ocean deep-water production in the Greenland Sea by a combination of operational remote sensing, modelling, and field requirements. We seek to understand the physics underlying convection and how this process links with global climatic factors. The field measurements comprise work in two winters and three summers cruises. Winter convection will be mapped by an acoustic shadowgraph array, moored yo-yo CTDs and transects by an AUV, while ice production and movement will be mapped by in site measurements and buoy deployments, with support from ice tank experiments. Passive microwave, SAR, wind scatterometer and airborne data will be combined with in site data to feed a model that calculates salt flux distribution over the region. When combined with a large-scale ice-ocean model and a small -scale convection model the final package will explain the convection process and its variability under extremes of forcing.

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-2. - Key action Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

University of Cambridge

Address

Silver Street
CB3 9EW Cambridge
United Kingdom

Participants (12)

ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH

Germany

Address

Columbusstrasse
27568 Bremerhaven

DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE

Denmark

Address

100,Lyngbyvej 100
2100 Koepenhagen

GREENLANDAIR INC

Denmark

Address

Nuuk Airport
3900 Nuuk

Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)

France

Address

Centre De Brest
29290 Plouzane

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY

Italy

Address

Localita Terlecchia - C/o Centro Di Geodesia Spazi
75100 Matera

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ITALY

Italy

Address

Via P. Gobetti 101
40129 Bologna

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

United Kingdom

Address

Waterfront Campus European Way
SO14 3ZH Southampton

NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT

Norway

Address

Hjalmar Johansens G. 14
9296 Tromsoe

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK

Denmark

Address

Building 348
2800 Lyngby

UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG

Germany

Address

Troplowitzstrasse 7
22529 Hamburg

UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

Iceland

Address

Dunhagi 3
107 Reykjavik

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Address

Lensfield Road
CB2 1ER Cambridge