This plenary session provides an overarching, cross-disciplinary picture on central processes taking place on the Arctic inflow shelf seas, the Arctic interior and outflow shelf seas, and in the deep central Arctic Ocean. In this way, this plenary provides an introduction to the afternoon session on inflow shelves (session D), interior and outflow shelves (session E), and in the central Arctic Ocean (session F).

The plenary consists of 3 keynote talks (30 min each), 3 plenary talks (15 min each), 1 talk with a special focus on link between science and application (15 min) and is followed by a panel discussion and a sneak-peak of the posters of the day.

(A detailed program for this plenary session is currently developed.)