Wind, Sea Ice, Inertial Oscillations and Upper Ocean Mixing in Marguerite Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula: Observations and Modeling

• Main Author: Hyatt, Jason
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *WIND; *OCEANS; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS; *SEA ICE; SHEAR PROPERTIES; STRESSES; ICE FORMATION; WINTER; BRINES; PENINSULAS; PACK ICE; STATIC STABILITY; SEASONS; INERTIAL SYSTEMS; HEAT FLUX; BALANCE; ICE; SURFACES; ENVIRONMENTS; OCEAN SURFACE; MARGUERITE BAY(ANTARCTICA); Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; ice pack; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA470224; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA470224

Two years of moored oceanographic and automatic weather station data which span the winter ice seasons of 2001-2003 within Marguerite Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) shelf were collected as part of the Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics program. In order to characterize the...