The overall goal of this project is to determine the influence of climate variability and change on the energy transfer in the marine pelagic ecosystem in different water masses on the west coast of Spitsbergen. The project will compare the pelagic food webs in fronts involving Arctic (ArW) and Atlantic water masses (AW) in this high-Arctic region [from MariClim project home page].

Our contribution to the international and interdisciplinary MariClim project consists of field measurements and numerical studies of sea ice, snow and superimposed ice properties. We serve observations of spatial variations and temporal evolutions of several ice types spread over Kongsfjorden and combine them with detailed model computations describing fast ice, snow and superimposed ice from Kongsfjorden since 1994.

We performed one field campaign:

MariClim 2006