Studies of Sea-ice Motion in tlheLaptev Sea withlthe use of Satellite Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling

• Main Authors: Vitaly Yu, Thomas Martin, Josef S. Kolatschek, Hajo Eicken, Martin Kreyscher, R P. Makshtas
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Laptev Sea; laptev; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.618.1137; http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/~eicken/he_publ/AMKE99.pdf

Abstract- Seasonal and interannual variability of ice drifi in the Laptev Sea and ice exchange with the A~ctic Ocean have been investigated using remote sensing data, a large-scale dynamic-thermodynamic numerical sea ice model and semi-empirical method. During the period 1979 – 1995 sea ice was exported from the Laptev Sea with maximum export occuring in February and minimum in August. The average winter ice outflow during this period was equal to 482700 km2. Estimates of ice exchange between the northern and southern parts of the Laptev Sea during the period 1936 to 1996 exhibited a strong interannual variability, but did not reveal significant trends.