BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969.

• Main Author: Jerdon, H. P.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE NSTL STATION MS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1969
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE; SEA ICE); (*SEA ICE; ARCTIC OCEAN); ICE ISLANDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OBSERVATION AIRCRAFT; FREEZING; MELTING; SEA WATER; NAVAL AIRCRAFT; GREENLAND SEA; DISTRIBUTION; DATA PROCESSING; POLAR REGIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; North Pole; Parry; Arctic Basin; Banks Island; Canadian Archipelago; Denmark Strait; Greenland Sea; Ice; Parry Channel; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0859547; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0859547

BIRDS EYE 2-69 was a regularly scheduled Arctic Ocean ice reconnaissance mission covering the North American sector of the Arctic Basin including the peripheral seas east of Greenland and the Parry Channel in the Canadian Archipelago from 23 February to 9 March 1969. Ice observations contained in this report were made under daylight, twilight, or moonlight conditions. Adverse weather precluded detailed observations in the eastern Parry Channel, near the North Pole, and in the Greenland Sea-Denmark Strait area. Observed ice conditions revealed an area of predominately first-year ice at 83 deg 30 min N, 104 deg 18 min W and a well-defined fracture zone northeast of Greenland. In the Parry Channel, from a point north of Banks Island to Resolute, only two refrozen fractures were observed. Extensive ice coverage, as observed on BIRDS EYE 1-69 (23 January-7 February), continued to exist in the Greenland Sea. (Author)