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The project includes seven thematic Work Packages (WP1-WP7):
Work Package 1: Project management and dissemination Task 1.1. Project management Task 1.2. Financial and administrative project management Task 1.3. Project data management Task 1.4. Dissemination and webpage Work Package 2: Open ocean oceanography Task 2.1. To analyze historical data from available archives and to collect dedicated new data to describe and understand the variability of AW properties in the WSC on different time scales Task 2.2. To investigate the local and remote forcing mechanisms responsible for interannual variability of the AW in the West Spitsbergen Current using the available hydrographic and atmospheric data, reanalysis and results of numerical model Task 2.3. To investigate topographically guided mechanisms of the AW circulation onto the West Spitsbergen shelf. To develop the analytical model and use existing numerical model to study the shelf circulation Work Package 3: Fjord oceanography Task 3.1. Fjord hydrography from historical and new data Task 3.2. Freshwater content and distribution from historical and new data Task 3.3. Arctic fjord circulation processes, observations and modelling Work Package 4: Sea Ice Task 4.1. Compilation of satellite data from the Svalbard area Task 4.2. To analyse the sea ice data for specific fjords and shelf areas Task 4.3. Air-ice-sea interactions study based on fjord-polynya model Task 4.4. To analyse the response of the sea ice cover to atmospheric and ocean forcing Work Package 5: Freshwater from the land Task 5.1. Detailed mapping and evaluation of features of the current state and main features of glaciated and unglaciated catchments within the Hornsund hydro-glaciological basin Task 5.2. Studies of factors and regimes of outflow from specific terrestrial sources i.e. partly glaciated and unglaciated catchments Task 5.3. Building of conceptual and semi-quantitative model of water drainage system and discharge from tidewater glaciers emptying into Hornsund fiord Task 5.4. Identification of key factors of the tidewater glacier’s dynamics and calving intensity to the fiord Task 5.5. Elaboration of the total water budget of the Hornsund hydro-glaciological basin including surface mass balance and icebergs production by tidewater glaciers Work Package 6: Atmosphere and climate change Task 6.1. To study climate changes in the early instrumental period Task 6.2. To establish a homogenized West Spitsbergen (Hornsund and Isfjord Radio) air temperature time series 1934-present Task 6.3. To study the north-south air temperature gradient on the Western Svalbard Task 6.4. Study the recent temperature anomalies on western Spitsbergen and its relation to circulation, sea ice, sea temperatures and ocean heat transport Task 6.5. To recognize radiation and heat budget changes Task 6.6. To describe topoclimate data from different Horsund regions based on historical sources and collected data Work Package 7: Synthesis Task 7.1. Compile the results of work done in WP2- WP6. Results from the atmospheric, oceanographic, sea ice and land ice studies will be compiled during the third year and the connections between the results will be analyzed Task 7.2. Organise a workshop with all project partners and external experts where the project results are discussed and conclusions identified Task 7.3. Prepare report/publication with synthesis of the results |
