Modeling the Wind and Buoyancy Driven Circulation and Ice Interaction in the Okhotsk Sea

• Main Author: Yang, Jiayan
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *OCEAN CURRENTS; *SEA ICE; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; HYDROGRAPHY; BASINS(GEOGRAPHIC); OKHOTSK SEA; OKHOTSK DICHOTHERMAL LAYER; ODTL(OKHOTSK DICHOTHERMAL LAYER); *OCEAN ICE INTERACTIONS; Okhotsk; Ice; okhotsk sea; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA353929; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA353929

The main goal of this objective is to use coupled ocean-ice numerical models to study the basin scale ocean circulation and ocean-ice interaction in the Okhotsk Sea, and to examine important processes that maintain the unique oceanographic setting, such as the ODTL in this large marginal sea. We use a hierarchy of models, from a basin-averaged column model of ocean-ice interactions (Yang and Honjo, 1996) to a 3-D primitive equation ocean general circulation models coupled with a dynamical and thermodynamical sea-ice model. Meanwhile, we have analyzed some unpublished in situ observations (mainly hydrography records from the Japanese Hydrography Office), satellite SSM/I data of sea-ice concentration, and meteorological observations (from Comprehensive Ocean and Atmosphere Data Sets (COADS) and from the Japan Meteorology Agency) to examine ocean-ice interactions and mechanisms for interannual variations.