SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. A South Shore native, Paul Zander, earned his doctorate in Climate Science on May 28 at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
NAU Doctoral Student Leads Paleoclimate Study of Precipitation and Sea Ice in Arctic Alaska Details
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Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea ice dynamics have a big impact on circulation and precipitation patterns in Arctic Alaska, which lies at a climatological crossroads between the Arctic and North Pacific oceans.
Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea ice dynamics have a big impact on circulation and precipitation patterns in Arctic Alaska, which lies at a climatological crossroads between the Arctic and North Pacific oceans. Recent studies most of which focus on current trends in the region and on what will happen in the future have shown that circulation patterns in the Arctic and North Pacific oceans influence one another.
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Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea ice dynamics have a big impact on circulation and precipitation patterns in Arctic Alaska, which lies at a climatological crossroads between the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans. Recent studies most of which focus on current trends in the region and on what will happen in the future have shown that circulation patterns in the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans influence one another.
Doctoral candidate Ellie Broadman of Northern Arizona University s School of Earth and Sustainability wanted to learn about this relationship on a longer timescale, so she developed and led a study in Arctic Alaska to investigate it. She is the lead author on a paper detailing her team s findings, Coupled impacts of sea ice variability and North Pacific atmospheric circulation on Holocene hydroclimate in Arctic Alaska, which was recently published in the prestigious journal