Using a system model to capture what has gone on with sea ice over the last few decades.

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• Using a system model to capture what has gone on
  with sea ice over the last few decades.
• Explaining the dynamics of the Greenland ice
  sheet (melt, hydrology, ice flux).
• Carbon dynamics (methane, drawdown,model and
  validation )
• Explaining the environmental responses to the
  2007 climate anomaly.
• Coastal erosion analyses within a system
  framework.

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• Fisheries link between climate change,
  environmental response and fisheries.
• Impact of interaction and feedback processes
  internal to the arctic on predictability of
  environmental responses in the arctic and global
  systems (coastal erosion, ice degradation.).
• Downscaling of global scenarios to test to what
  extent the different description of processes and
  different resolutions affect arctic change
  predictions.
• Composition of atmospheric constituents and
  impacts on climate dynamics, SEB, air quality

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• ASM is better suited to capture some past and
  future extreme and abrupt events compared to
  global change (not just physical climate but also
  human dimensions and ecosystem and other
  dimensions as well).
• Watershed scale geomorphology changes
• Explanation of changes in river runoff patterns.
• Upscaling to explain the role of the Arctic in
  the global system.