Visible and Thermal Imaging of Sea Ice and Open Water from Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness Flights

Our long term goals are to better understand the interaction of sea ice with the regional and global climate and to improve the skill of predicting the evolution of the ice on daily to decadal time scales. The overall objective of the proposed research is to collect detailed information about the th...

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Main Author: Lindsay, Ronald
Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*SEA ICE
*SEASONAL VARIATIONS
BEAUFORT SEA
CHUKCHI SEA
CLIMATE
ICE FORMATION
MELTING
OCEAN SURFACE
OPEN WATER
PREDICTIONS
SUMMER
ICE COVER
SIZ(SEASONAL ICE ZONE)
SIZRS(SEASONAL ICE ZONE RECONNAISSANCE SURVEYS)
Arctic
Chukchi Sea
Beaufort Sea
Chukchi
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA572178
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Summary:Our long term goals are to better understand the interaction of sea ice with the regional and global climate and to improve the skill of predicting the evolution of the ice on daily to decadal time scales. The overall objective of the proposed research is to collect detailed information about the thermal and physical state of the ice and ocean surface in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas over at least two complete summer melt seasons in order to better understand the physical processes that control the melt, to better represent them in numerical models, and to better predict the seasonal evolution of the ice cover.

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