NACLIM Deliverable D21.12
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Description of a monitoring system on the shallow East Greenland
shelf (This is a report describing the design of a new monitoring system to be
Deliverable title
deployed on the East Greenland shelf)
WP No.
2.1
Lead beneficiary:
WP title
Exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland-Ridge
Work duration1) 12
x
NIOZ / Laura De Steur
Due delivery deadline:
15 Sept.
2013
Actual delivery date:
R= report
P= prototype
Nature of the
deliverable
D= demonstrator
O= Other
PU = public
x
Dissemination
level
PP= restricted to other programme participants, including the
Commission services
RE= restricted to a group specified by the consortium, including the
Commission services
CO= confidential, only for members of the consortium, including the
Commission services
1) Work duration = project month
Lead beneficiary:
NIOZ
Laura De Steur
Other contributing
partners:
UHAM
Please list the names of the scientist(s) involved
UIB
Please list the names of the scientist(s) involved
UNIRES
Please list the names of the scientist(s) involved
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Index
1. Executive summary ........................................................................................................... 3
2. Project objectives .............................................................................................................. 3
3. Detailed report on the deliverable ...................................................................................... 3
4. References ........................................................................................................................ 4
5. List of publications ............................................................................................................. 4
6. The delivery is delayed:  Yes  No ............................................................................. 5
7. Changes made and difficulties encountered, if any............................................................ 6
8. Efforts for this deliverable .................................................................................................. 6
9. Sustainability ..................................................................................................................... 6
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1. Executive summary
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a brief summary of the work performed in this deliverable
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a list of the main results achieved
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2. Project objectives
With this deliverable, the project has contributed to the achievement of the following objectives
(see DOW Section B.1.1):
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Nr.
1.
Objective
Assessing the predictability and quantifying the uncertainty in
forecasts of the North Atlantic/Arctic Ocean surface state
2. Assessing the atmospheric predictability related to the North
Atlantic/Arctic Ocean surface state
3. Monitoring of volume, heat and fresh water transports across key
sections in the North Atlantic
4. Quantifying the benefit of the different ocean observing system
components for the initialization of decadal climate predictions
5. Establishing the impact of an Arctic initialization on the forecast
skill in the North Atlantic/European sector
6. Quantifying the impact of predicted North Atlantic upper ocean
state changes on the oceanic ecosystem
7. Quantifying the impact of predicted North Atlantic upper ocean
state changes on socioeconomic systems in European urban
societies
8. Providing recommendations for observational and prediction
systems
9. Providing recommendations for predictions of the oceanic
ecosystem
10. Disseminating the key results to the climate service community
and relevant endusers/stakeholders
11. Constructing a dataset for sea surface and sea ice surface
temperatures in the Arctic
3. Detailed report on the deliverable
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No
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X
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X
X
X
X
X
4. References
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5. Dissemination and uptake
5.1 Dissemination
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Peer reviewed articles:
Title
Main author
All authors
Example
Systematic
Estimates of
Initial-Value
Decadal
Predictability
for Six
AOGCMs
Branstator,
G., H. Teng,
G.A. Meehl,
M. Kimoto,
J.R. Knight,
M. Latif, and
A. Rosati
Title of
the
periodica
l or the
series
JOURNA
L OF
CLIMAT
E
Number,
date or
frequency
Publisher
VOLUME
25
America
n
Meteorol
ogical
Society
Place of
publicat
ion
Check the NACLIM „Dissemination Plan“ on the open access requirements:
http://naclim.zmaw.de/Deliverables.2224.0.html
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Year of
publication
Permanent
identifiers[1]
DOI
2012
DOI:
10.1175/JCL
I-D-1100227.1
Is/Will open
access
1provided to
this
publication?
Yes
Publications in preparation OR submitted
Is there any publication in plan or already submitted. Add lines if needed.
In preparation
OR submitted?
Title
All authors
Title of the periodical
or the series
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preparation
Decadal Predictability
Branstator, G., H. Teng,
G.A. Meehl, M. Kimoto
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to this publication?
5.2 Uptake by the targeted audience
According to the DOW, your audience for this deliverable is:
The general public (PU)
X
The project partners, including the Commission services (PP)
A group specified by the consortium, including the Commission services (RE)
This reports is confidential, only for members of the consortium, including the Commission services
(CO)
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6. The delivery is delayed:  Yes
 No
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7. Changes made and difficulties encountered, if any
If you have encountered difficulties or made changes, please write four lines of explanation.
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8. Efforts for this deliverable
How many person-months have been used up for this deliverable?
Partner
Person-months
NIOZ
UHAM
UIB
UNIRES
0.5
1
1
2
Period covered
From dd/mm/yyyy- to dd/mm/yyyy
From dd/mm/yyyy- to dd/mm/yyyy
From dd/mm/yyyy- to dd/mm/yyyy
From dd/mm/yyyy- to dd/mm/yyyy
4.5
Total
Total estimated effort for this deliverable (DOW) was 4.5 person-months.
9. Sustainability
 Lessons learnt: both positive and negative that can be drawn from the experiences of the
work to date and
 Links built with other deliverables, WPs, and synergies created with other projects
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10. Dissemination activities
Add the dissemination activities (starting from November 2012) related to this deliverable.
Fill in the table below in all its parts.
[3] Indicate here which type of activities from the following list: Publications, conferences, workshops, web, press releases, flyers, articles published
in the popular press, videos, media briefings, presentations, exhibitions, thesis, interviews, films, TV clips, posters, Other.
[4] Indicate here which type of audience: Scientific Community (higher education, Research), Industry, Civil Society, Policy makers, Medias ('multiple
choices' is possible.
Type of
activities[3]
Main leader
Title (+website
reference)
Date
Place
Type of
audience[4]
Size of
audience
Countries
addressed
Have you
sent a copy
to Chiara
(project
office) via
mail?
Presentations
UPMC
16th AOMIP and 1st
FAMOS meetings
http://www.whoi.edu
/page.do?pid=1094
56
23-26 October
2012
Woods Hole
Oceanographic
Institution, Woods
Hole, Massachusetts
(USA)
Scientific
Community
(higher
education,
Research)
150
USA,
Europe
Yes
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Description of the work package in the Description of Work (DOW) for
reference
Objectives WP 2.1
• To modify existing measuring systems in order to make them more accurate and more sustainable for
long-term monitoring of the exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge
• To provide updated time series of mass and heat transport for all the Atlantic inflow branches to the Nordic
Seas and mass and freshwater transport for the most important overflow branches
• To estimate the variability and identify any potential trends in these flows.
Description of work and role of the partners
The experience from previous experiments has revealed gaps in the monitoring systems, but also
indicated ways to make them less costly to run. At the project start, these changes will be implemented and
measurements acquired during the field phase of the project. The mooring arrays for the Atlantic inflows and
the overflows will only slightly be modified, but the arrays capturing the freshwater fluxes on the East Greenland
Shelf and those covering the overflow sources upstream are new developments.
Task 2.1.1 Monitoring the inflow of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas
a) The existing monitoring systems across the three Atlantic inflow branches will be modified in order to enhance
the accuracy and make them more sustainable as long-term monitoring systems. [UiB, MRI, HAV, MSS, SAMS].
The output will be the Deliverable D8, D21, D34, D57
b) Monitoring will be maintained during the field phase of NACLIM and time series of hydrographic properties
and volume transport of the three Atlantic inflow branches generated annually. [UiB, MRI, HAV, MSS, SAMS].
The output will be the Deliverable D21, D34, D57
c) Based on the updated time series, variability and potential trends of the inflow branches will be estimated and
evaluated in relation to available model results. [UniRes, UiB, MRI, HAV, MSS, SAMS] The output will be the
Deliverable D51, D59
d) At the project conclusion, a design for a sustainable long-term inflow monitoring system will be recommended.
[UniRes, UiB, MRI, HAV, MSS] The output will be the Deliverable D59
Task 2.1.2 Monitoring the dense water overflow across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge
a) Denmark Strait overflow. [MRI, UHAM] The output will be the Deliverable D21, D34, D57
b) The existing ADCP mooring array in the Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) will be maintained during the field phase
of NACLIM and time series of FBC-overflow properties and transport generated annually. [HAV, UiB and UHAM]
The output will be the Deliverable D21, D34, D57
c) The overflow across the shallow Wyville Thomson Ridge will be monitored downstream of the ridge. [SAMS]
The output will be the Deliverable D21, D34, D57, D44, D55
d) Based on the updated time series, variability and potential trends of the monitored overflow branches will be
estimated and evaluated in relation to available model results. [UiB, UHAM, MRI, HAV, SAMS] The output will be
the Deliverable D51, D59
e) At the project conclusion, a design for a sustainable long-term overflow monitoring system will be
recommended. [UniRes, UiB, UHAM, MRI, HAV, SAMS] The output will be the Deliverable D59
Task 2.1.3 Sources of the Denmark Strait Overflow
A skeleton mooring array based on the currently deployed full Kogur array will be maintained to monitor the
deep East Greenland Current [UiB] and the North Icelandic Jet (American partner, WHOI), the two identified
pathways of Denmark Strait Overflow Water. The eastern part of the Kogur section is regularly occupied by CTD
cruises [MRI]. Along with the ongoing mooring program at the Denmark Strait sill [MRI, UHAM], these concurrent
measurements will be an important step towards determining the relative contributions of the two sources of
overflow water. The output will be the Deliverable D21, D34, D57, D44, D55
Task 2.1.4 Freshwater fluxes on the East Greenland Shelf
The extension of the Kogur array onto the Greenland shelf will be maintained and expanded in order to measure
the transport of fresh water by the East Greenland Current [NIOZ]. The deployment will initially take the form of
an innovative pilot project in which the technology required for upper-ocean measurements in ice-covered waters
already employed (e.g. in the Davis Strait) will be further developed. The output will be the Deliverable D8, D12,
D21, D32, D53, D21, D34, D57, D44, D55
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Interaction with other work packages
WP2.1 addresses the exchanges of heat and mass across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge and will provide data
(input) to activities in WP’s 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1 and 4.2.
WP 2.1 will exchange data and observations technology with WP 2.2: WP2.2 addresses the assessment and
improvement of the observing system south of the Greenland/Scotland Ridge. WP2.1 proposes to perform
similar work but for the region north of the Greenland Scotland Ridge .
For more information on interactions with WP 2.3, please see the exhaustive explanation in WP2.3.
WP 2.1 and WP 3.1 will jointly investigate the importance of initializing the density structure in the overflow
region: the importance of initializing the density structure in the overflow region will be investigated in
collaboration with WP 2.1 by providing the information from the “perfect” model experiments obtained in WP3.1.
Data on exchanges across the Greenland/Scotland Ridge from WP2.1 is required as input to WP3.2.
List of deliverables
D21.12) Description of a monitoring system on the shallow East Greenland shelf: This is a report describing the
design of a new monitoring system to be deployed on the East Greenland shelf. [month 12] Who is in charge: NIOZ
D21.21) Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transports across the Greenland-Scotland-Ridge-1:
Full title: Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transports across the
Greenland-Scotland-Ridge-1st Batch This deliverable consists of time series of mass, heat and freshwater
transport across the GSR calculated on the first year of observations. [month 18] Who is in charge : UIB
D21.32) Report on system performance: a monitoring system on the shallow East Greenland shelf: This is a
report on the performance of the monitoring system described under D12. [month 30] Who is in charge: NIOZ
D21.34) Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transports across the Greenland-Scotland-Ridge-2:
Full title: Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transports across the
Greenland-Scotland-Ridge-2nd Batch. This deliverable consists of time series of mass, heat and freshwater
transport across the GSR calculated on the second year of observations. [month 30] Who is in charge: UIB
D21.53) Assessment of the freshwater transport in the East Greenland Current at the Kogur array: Assessment
of the freshwater transport in the East Greenland Current at the Kogur array [month 44] Who is in charge: MRI
D21.57) Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transports across Greenland-Scotland-Ridge-3:
Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transports across the Greenland-Scotland-Ridge- 3rd Batch
[month 44] Who is in charge: UIB
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Person-months per participant
Person-months (PM)
Deliverable title
Lead
benef
iciary
Tot
PM
UH
AM
DQ
Description of a monitoring
system on the shallow East
Greenland shelf
NIOZ
4.5
Daily time series data of
mass, heat and freshwater
transports across the
Greenland-Scotland-Ridge1st Batch
Report on system
performance: a monitoring
system on the shallow East
Greenland shelf
Daily time series data of
mass, heat and freshwater
transports across the
Greenland-Scotland-Ridge2nd Batch
Assessment of the
freshwater transport in the
East Greenland Current at
the Kogur array
Daily time series data of
mass, heat and freshwater
transports across the
Greenland-Scotland-Ridge3rd Batch
UIB
MPG
UPMC
UiB
UniRE
S
1
1
2
28
3
9
1
NIOZ
4.5
1
1
2
UIB
27
3
9
1
MRI
11
1
1
1
UIB
27
3
9
1
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GEOM
AR
DMI
HAV
FMI
MRI
NIOZ
SAMS
NER
C/
ICPO
NERS
C
VITO
GIM
DTU
MSS
0.5
4
6
1
2
2
3
1
3
1
0.5
4
6
6
4
6
2