Ocean Profile Measurements During the Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys Ocean Profiles

• Main Author: Morison,James
• Other Authors: University of Washington Seattle United States
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Meteorology; surface temperature; open water; arctic ocean; barometric pressure; sea level; seasonal variations; salinity; velocity; atmospheric temperature; marginal ice zones; profile measurement; Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys; Beaufort-Chukchi sea; seasonal sea ice zone; Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness; winter sea ice; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1026542; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1026542

The overarching objectives for SIZRS are to determine seasonal variations in air-ice-ocean characteristics across the SIZ extending over several years and for a variety of SIZ conditions, investigate and test hypotheses about the physical processes that occur within the SIZ that require data from all components of SIZRS, and improve predictive models of the SIZ through model validation and through the determination of observing system requirements. For the ocean profiles component of SIZRS, our objective is to determine variations in ocean characteristics across the SIZ extending over several years and for a wide variety of SIZ conditions.