Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice
Ocean and sea ice models require a specification of the drag coefficients, which relate the turbulent fluxes of heat and momentum to atmospheric wind and temperature. Thedrag coefficients of sea ice depend on the structure of the surface and on atmospheric conditions. Observational programs with air...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:4325 2023-09-05T13:12:26+02:00 Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice Mai, S. Hartmann, Jörg Wamser, C. Augstein, E. Kottmeier, C. 1994 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/4325/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14900 unknown Mai, S. , Hartmann, J. , Wamser, C. , Augstein, E. and Kottmeier, C. (1994) Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice , European Conference on Grand Challenges in Ocean and Polar Sciences, BremenSeptember 1994 . hdl:10013/epic.14900 EPIC3European Conference on Grand Challenges in Ocean and Polar Sciences, BremenSeptember 1994, 12, 95 p. Conference notRev 1994 ftawi 2023-08-22T19:44:36Z Ocean and sea ice models require a specification of the drag coefficients, which relate the turbulent fluxes of heat and momentum to atmospheric wind and temperature. Thedrag coefficients of sea ice depend on the structure of the surface and on atmospheric conditions. Observational programs with aircraft and boundary layer modeling work havebeen performed to obtain new parameterizations of the drag coefficients for wide ranges of sea ice conditions and atmospheric stabilities.The geometric surface roughness and the size distribution of sea ice floes have been investigated by airborne laser altimetry and camera surveys in the marginal ice zone ofthe Greenland sea. Downward looking scanning cameras in the visible and thermal infrared and a laser altimeter have been used. The 50 flight legs at a height of 30 m coveredan area of about 90 km2. The total length of the flight track has been 1500 km. The measurements have been analysed to derive the heights of freeboards and pressure ridgesas well as the floe sizes and ridge spacings. Freeboard heights range from 0.2 m close to the ice edge up to 0.6m deep in the pack-ice, where multiyear ice floes prevail. Themean ridge height of 0.8 m is independent of the location in the marginal ice zone. Frequency distributions of ice ridge heights and separations are in good agreement withprevious results from the Arctic and Antarctic. Statistics of the sea-ice surface geometry have been used to evaluate the aerodynamic roughness of the pack-ice which is acombination of form and skin drag.Direct measurements of the turbulent fluxes of momentum, sensible and latent heat have been simultaneously performed and allow a direct determination of the aerodynamicroughness. Both experimental and model results clearly reveal a dependency of the drag coefficient on the geometric surface roughness of sea-ice. The stability correcteddrag coefficient at a height of 10 m increases from 1.1.10-3 to 2.4.10-3 as the product h.r of freeboard height h and mean floe radius r increases from 0 to 0.03. ... Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Greenland Greenland Sea Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Antarctic Arctic Greenland |
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Ocean and sea ice models require a specification of the drag coefficients, which relate the turbulent fluxes of heat and momentum to atmospheric wind and temperature. Thedrag coefficients of sea ice depend on the structure of the surface and on atmospheric conditions. Observational programs with aircraft and boundary layer modeling work havebeen performed to obtain new parameterizations of the drag coefficients for wide ranges of sea ice conditions and atmospheric stabilities.The geometric surface roughness and the size distribution of sea ice floes have been investigated by airborne laser altimetry and camera surveys in the marginal ice zone ofthe Greenland sea. Downward looking scanning cameras in the visible and thermal infrared and a laser altimeter have been used. The 50 flight legs at a height of 30 m coveredan area of about 90 km2. The total length of the flight track has been 1500 km. The measurements have been analysed to derive the heights of freeboards and pressure ridgesas well as the floe sizes and ridge spacings. Freeboard heights range from 0.2 m close to the ice edge up to 0.6m deep in the pack-ice, where multiyear ice floes prevail. Themean ridge height of 0.8 m is independent of the location in the marginal ice zone. Frequency distributions of ice ridge heights and separations are in good agreement withprevious results from the Arctic and Antarctic. Statistics of the sea-ice surface geometry have been used to evaluate the aerodynamic roughness of the pack-ice which is acombination of form and skin drag.Direct measurements of the turbulent fluxes of momentum, sensible and latent heat have been simultaneously performed and allow a direct determination of the aerodynamicroughness. Both experimental and model results clearly reveal a dependency of the drag coefficient on the geometric surface roughness of sea-ice. The stability correcteddrag coefficient at a height of 10 m increases from 1.1.10-3 to 2.4.10-3 as the product h.r of freeboard height h and mean floe radius r increases from 0 to 0.03. ... |
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Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice |
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Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice |
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Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice |
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EPIC3European Conference on Grand Challenges in Ocean and Polar Sciences, BremenSeptember 1994, 12, 95 p. |
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Mai, S. , Hartmann, J. , Wamser, C. , Augstein, E. and Kottmeier, C. (1994) Aircraft remote sensing of the surface roughness of sea ice , European Conference on Grand Challenges in Ocean and Polar Sciences, BremenSeptember 1994 . hdl:10013/epic.14900 |
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