WHOI IARC
USM Polcar Science Center

Toward reanalysis of the Arctic Climate System – sea ice and ocean reconstruction with data assimilation



Principal Investigator

Andrey Proshutinsky
Woods Hole Oceanographic
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Phone: 508-289-2796
FAX: 508-457-2181



Co-Investigators

Dmitri Nechaev
University of Southern Mississippi
Gleb Panteleev
International al Arctic Research Center
Jinlun Zhang and Ron Lindsay
University of Washington



Project Description
Project Results
Publications and Talks
References
Digital Data Access

NSF

This research has been supported by a grant from NSF. NSF’s project director:

Neil R. Swanberg, Arctic System Science Program Director Office of Polar Programs, NSF nswanber@nsf.gov
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