Session 4a |
| | Upper-Ocean/Sea Ice Exchanges (Parallel with Session 4B) |
| | Organizer: John W. Weatherly, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab., Hanover, NH
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| 1:30 PM | 4a.1 | The influence of ice-ocean coupling feedbacks on Arctic sea ice variability
Marika M. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 1:45 PM | 4a.2 | The Antarctic Dipole and its predictability
Xiaojun Yuan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and D. Martinson |
| 2:00 PM | 4a.3 | Wind-forced interannual sea ice and water mass changes on the Ross Sea continental shelf
Michael L. Van Woert, National Ice Center, Washington, DC |
| 2:15 PM | 4a.4 | Early summer heating of the upper ocean in the vicinity of SHEBA 
Miles G. McPhee, McPhee Research Company, Naches, WA; and G. A. Maykut, C. M. Bitz, and R. E. Moritz |
| 2:30 PM | 4a.5 | Modeling the influence of sea ice on solar heating in the upper ocean during the SHEBA experiment
Cecilia M. Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. E. Moritz, M. G. McPhee, and G. A. Maykut |
| 2:45 PM | 4a.6 | Summertime oceanic fluxes at SHEBA: observations and steady 2-D modelling
Daniel R. Hayes, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. H. Morison and M. G. McPhee |