BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969.
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 th...
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ftdtic:AD0859547 2023-05-15T14:29:13+02:00 BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. Jerdon, H. P. NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE NSTL STATION MS 1969-05 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0859547 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0859547 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0859547 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE DTIC AND NTIS 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 Text 1969 ftdtic 2016-02-19T06:03:52Z 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) Text Arctic Basin Arctic Arctic Ocean Banks Island Canadian Archipelago Denmark Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Ice North Pole Parry Channel permafrost Sea ice Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland North Pole Parry ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-64.283,-64.283) |
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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 |
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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 Jerdon, H. P. BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. |
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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 |
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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) |
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BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. |
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BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. |
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BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. |
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BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. |
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BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969. |
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birds eye 2-69, 23 february-9 march 1969. |
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Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland North Pole Parry |
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Arctic Basin Arctic Arctic Ocean Banks Island Canadian Archipelago Denmark Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Ice North Pole Parry Channel permafrost Sea ice |
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Arctic Basin Arctic Arctic Ocean Banks Island Canadian Archipelago Denmark Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Ice North Pole Parry Channel permafrost Sea ice |
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