Past, present, and future: A science program for the Arctic Ocean linking ancient and contemporary observations of change through modeling

Authors

Bernard Coakley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Henrietta N. Edmonds, The University of Texas at Austin
Karen Frey, Clark University
Jean Claude Gascard, Sorbonne Université
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Heidemarie Kassens, GEOMAR - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Jorn Thiede, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Carolyn Wegner, GEOMAR - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The Arctic Ocean is the missing piece for any global model. Records of processes at both long and short timescales will be necessary to predict the future evolution of the Arctic Ocean through what appears to be a period of rapid climate change. Ocean monitoring is impoverished without the long-timescale records available from paleoceanography and the boundary conditions that can be obtained from marine geology and geophysics. The past and the present are the key to our ability to predict the future.

Publication Title

Eos

Publication Date

2007

Volume

88

Issue

28

First Page

287

ISSN

0096-3941

DOI

10.1029/2007EO280006

Keywords

boundary condition, climate change, conference proceeding, monitoring, paleoceanography

Repository Citation

Coakley, Bernard; Edmonds, Henrietta N.; Frey, Karen; Gascard, Jean Claude; Grebmeier, Jacqueline M.; Kassens, Heidemarie; Thiede, Jorn; and Wegner, Carolyn, "Past, present, and future: A science program for the Arctic Ocean linking ancient and contemporary observations of change through modeling" (2007). Geography. 245.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/245