A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events
Sea ice drift and deformation, namely sea ice dynamics, play a significant role in atmosphere–ice–ocean coupling. Deformation patterns in sea ice can be observed over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, though high-resolution objective quantification of these features remains difficult. In...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:egusphere104698 2023-06-06T11:59:04+02:00 A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events Aksamit, Nikolas O. Scharien, Randall K. Hutchings, Jennifer K. 2023-04-11 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-519 https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-519/ eng eng doi:10.5194/egusphere-2022-519 https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-519/ eISSN: Text 2023 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-519 2023-04-17T16:23:12Z Sea ice drift and deformation, namely sea ice dynamics, play a significant role in atmosphere–ice–ocean coupling. Deformation patterns in sea ice can be observed over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, though high-resolution objective quantification of these features remains difficult. In an effort to better understand local deformation of sea ice, we adapt the trajectory-stretching exponents (TSEs), quasi-objective measures of Lagrangian stretching in continuous media, to sea ice buoy data and develop a temporal analysis of TSE time series. Our work expands on previous ocean current studies that have shown TSEs provide an approximation of Lagrangian coherent structure diagnostics when only sparse trajectory data are available. As TSEs do not require multiple buoys, we find they have an expanded range of use when compared with traditional Eulerian buoy-array deformation metrics and provide local-stretching information below the length scales possible when averaging over buoy arrays. We verify the ability of TSEs to temporally and spatially identify dynamic features for three different sea ice datasets. The ability of TSEs to quantify trajectory stretching is verified by concurrent ice fracture in buoy neighborhoods ranging from tens to hundreds of kilometers in diameter, as well as the temporal concurrence of significant storm events. Text Sea ice Copernicus Publications: E-Journals |
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Sea ice drift and deformation, namely sea ice dynamics, play a significant role in atmosphere–ice–ocean coupling. Deformation patterns in sea ice can be observed over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, though high-resolution objective quantification of these features remains difficult. In an effort to better understand local deformation of sea ice, we adapt the trajectory-stretching exponents (TSEs), quasi-objective measures of Lagrangian stretching in continuous media, to sea ice buoy data and develop a temporal analysis of TSE time series. Our work expands on previous ocean current studies that have shown TSEs provide an approximation of Lagrangian coherent structure diagnostics when only sparse trajectory data are available. As TSEs do not require multiple buoys, we find they have an expanded range of use when compared with traditional Eulerian buoy-array deformation metrics and provide local-stretching information below the length scales possible when averaging over buoy arrays. We verify the ability of TSEs to temporally and spatially identify dynamic features for three different sea ice datasets. The ability of TSEs to quantify trajectory stretching is verified by concurrent ice fracture in buoy neighborhoods ranging from tens to hundreds of kilometers in diameter, as well as the temporal concurrence of significant storm events. |
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A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events |
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A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events |
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A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events |
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A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events |
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A quasi-objective single buoy approach for Lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events |
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quasi-objective single buoy approach for lagrangian coherent structures and sea ice fracture events |
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