MIZEX: A Program for Mesoscale Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction Experiments in Arctic Marginal Ice Zones. VIII. A Science Plan for a Winter Marginal Ice Zone Experiment in the Fram Strait/Greenland Sea: 1987/89

• Main Authors: Davidson, Kenneth, Dyer, Ira, Horn, Dean, Johannessen, Ola, Mikhalevsky, Peter
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1986
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Acoustics; *UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; *SEA ICE; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERACTIONS; AIR; DYNAMICS; BOUNDARIES; WINTER; ICE; PHYSICS; PLANNING; MASS TRANSFER; JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES; REMOTE DETECTORS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; METEOROLOGY; OCEANS; AIR WATER INTERACTIONS; SEA WATER; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ARCTIC REGIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; MARINE GEOPHYSICS; MIZEX(Marginal Ice Zone Experiments); Marginal ice zones; Fram Strait; Arctic; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA169070; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA169070

The present plan is motivated by the need to improve our understanding of the fundamentals of acoustic propagation, noise, and electromagnetic remote sensing in the winter marginal ice zone (MIZ). The plan strongly emphasizes oceanography, ice dynamics, and meteorology. In fact, the latter disciplines must be deeply enough researched to resolve fundamental questions entailing air/ice/ocean interaction, heat and mass exchanges and balances, growth and decay of ice-edge eddies, etc. Detailed scientific objectives are examined for oceanography, meteorology, ice physics, remote sensing, and acoustics together with detailed experimental plans, and a discussion of logistics for these experiments. See also AD-A134 872.