RESULTS OF A SOVIET EXPERIMENT INVESTIGATING THE DRIFT AND DYNAMICS OF THE ARCTIC BASIN ICE COVER (Rezultaty Ekspeditsionnykh Issledovanii Dreifa i Dinamiki Ledyanogo Pokrova Articheskogo Basseina Vesnoi)

• Main Authors: Bushuev,A. V., Volkov,N. A., Gudkovich,Z. M., Loshchilov,V. S.
• Other Authors: RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*SEA ICE; DRIFT); (*ARCTIC OCEAN; SEA ICE); ICE ISLANDS; WIND; OCEAN WAVES; STRESSES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL DATA; ROTATION; VORTICES; FRICTION; TABLES(DATA); TRANSLATIONS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Arctic Basin; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0706549; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0706549

The paper summarizes and reviews an experiment conducted in the Arctic Basin by Soviet scientists in spring 1961. The purpose of the experiment was to study the drift and dynamics of the ice cover. Observations were performed simultaneously at seven manned stations operating at different points in the Arctic Basin. The data obtained gives some insights into the behavior of pack ice under the influence of wind and water stress. (Author) Trans. of Arkticheskii i Antarkticheskii Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Institut. Trudy (USSR) v257 p26-44 1967, by S. M. Olenicoff and H. Solomon.