Ice mobility and shelf basin exchange in the Beaufort Sea, 2002-2011

• Main Author: Weingartner, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Axiom Data Science 2019
• Subjects: Curl; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24431/rw1k339; https://search.dataone.org/#view/10.24431/rw1k339

Satellite observations of sea ice drift were used to calculate sea ice velocity, the stress exerted by the sea ice on the ocean and the curl of the stress between the ice and the ocean. Idealized numerical experiments were used to examine the effects of the width of the transition zone between landfast ice and pack ice as well as landfast ice width on upwelling. Numerical experiments and the satellite record of surface stress both support the hypothesis that shelf water masses directly ventilate the Pacific halocline. These source data were used as inputs to a ROMS model. The ROMS outputs from those model runs are available as NetCDF files upon request, with the file arctic2_2014_12.dump provided as an example of the data file structure. These files are available without limitations, but due the the number and size of the files please contact Axiom Data Science ([e-mail]) for access.