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

• 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; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA572178

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.