NACLIM CT 2 Monitoring of North Atlantic parameters Core Theme sessions Trieste 2 nd Oct 9:00-13:00 Lead: Svein Østerhus and Johannes Karstensen WP 2.1 Exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge Lead: Svein Østerhus (UniRes) WP 2.2 Transports in the subtropical North Atlantic Lead: Johannes Karstensen (GEOMAR) WP 2.3 Joint model – observational data comparison Lead: Detlef Quadfasel (UHAM)

AGU, 2003 WP 2.1 Exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge NACLIM Task Monitoring the inflow of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas Task Monitoring the dense water overflow across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge Task Sources of the Denmark Strait Overflow Task Freshwater fluxes on the East Greenland Shelf

WP 2.2 Transports in the subpolar and subtropical North Atlantic Task Upper layer transport in the Subpolar gyre Task Upper layer transport in the Subpolar gyre Task Lower layer transport in the Subpolar gyre Task Lower layer transport in the Subpolar gyre Task Connection between Upper and Lower layer in the Subpolar gyre Task Connection between Upper and Lower layer in the Subpolar gyre Task Sustainability of observations and link to other projects Task Sustainability of observations and link to other projects

WP 2.3 Joint model – observational data comparison Task Matrix definition Task Coherent data sets Task Large scale and regional budgets

Members: NACLIM CT 2 Monitoring of North Atlantic parameters Members: Hafrannsoknastofnunin (MRI) Havstovan (HAV) The Scottish Ministers acting through Marine Scotland (MSS) The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC - NOC) University of Bergen (UIB) UNI Research AS (UniRes) Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek (NIOZ) University of Hamburg (UHAM) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung (GEOMAR) Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) WP 2.3 includes all NACLIM partners

CT2 Theme session, Oct 2 nd 2013 members attending DetlefQuadfaselUHAM NunoNunesUHAM ClareJohnsonSAMS StuartCunninghamSAMS Laurade SteurNIOZ DarrenRaynerNERC NOC GerardMcCarthyNERC NOC SteingrímurJónssonMRI JohannesKarstensenGEOMAR BarbaraBerxMSS Karen MargrethaLarsenHAV BertRudelsFMI HedinnValdimarsson MRI SveinØsterhusUNIRes

CT 2; status WP2.1 Exchanges across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge – Task Monitoring the inflow of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas – Task Monitoring the dense water overflow across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge – Task Sources of the Denmark Strait Overflow – Task Freshwater fluxes on the East Greenland Shelf WP2.2 Transports in the subtropical North Atlantic – Task Upper layer transport in the Subpolar gyre – Task Lower layer transport in the Subpolar gyre – Task Connection between Upper and Lower layer in the Subpolar gyre – Task Sustainability of observations and link to other projects WP2.3 Joint model – observational data comparison – Task Matrix definition – Task Coherent data sets – Task Large scale and regional budgets

Deliverable D21.12 Description of a monitoring system on the shallow East Greenland shelf – 11 NIOZ / Laura D22.6 Pre-NACLIM time series data provided to NACLIM data portal for CMIP model data comparison – 6 GEOMAR D batch-Newly acquired & updated time series provided to data portal for CMIP model data comparison – 11 NIOZ D23.15 Definition of Matrix containing key ocean quantities & ass. errors for direct model-obs. comparison – 9 FMI D23.16 Data sets containing time series of relevant ocean quantities from the pre-NACLIM period- 1 UHAM

Reports & Discussions Report on: Monitoring the flow of Atlantic water through the Faroe-Shetland Channel – lead: Karin M. Report on: RDI ADCP problem – UHAM Data availability: how to best connect/provide information for model comparison? what to compare? - Johannes

Future Cruise planning and beyond OSNAP CT2 initiative for the Horizon 2020 call CT2 Workshops – is there a need for technical workshop (problems with bottom mounted ADCPs, data telemetry systems)? – Other workshops?

Next Deliverables D21.21 / mnd 18: Daily time series data of mass, heat and freshwater transport across the G-S-R – lead: UIB/Kjetil D22.8 / mnd 18: Report on the technical characteristic of the observing systen operated in NACLIM south of the sills D22.29 / mnd 24: 1 batch-Newly acquired & updated time series provided to data portal for CMIP model data comparison – 11 NIOZ D23.17 / mnd 17: 1 st Batch-updated of data sets containing time series of relevant key ocean quantities – 1 UHAM D23.30 mnd 24: 1 st Batch-updated of data sets containing time series of relevant key ocean quantities – 1 UHAM

Milestones MS7 / mnd 18: Monitoring system on the shallow East Greenland shelf established – lead: Svein/Laura MS9 / mnd 24: Time series for Labrador/Irminger seas accessible for the CMIP5 validation – 6 GEOMAR MS11 / mnd 24: Optimized mooring in the deep convection regions deployed - 6 GEOMAR MS12 / mnd 24: Start of gliders programme in eastern boundary current – 5 UNIRes

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union 7th Framework Programme (FP ), under grant agreement n NACLIM