Early Student Support for the Study of Inertial Motions in the Arctic Ocean

The decreasing trend in minimum sea-ice extent in the Arctic Ocean has been a topic of concern with far reaching effects. There is good reason to believe that the Arctic Ocean will become a more active ocean, with larger surface waves and more intense internal wave activity (Rainville et al., 2011)....

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Main Author: Rainville, Luc
Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*ARCTIC OCEAN
*INTERNAL WAVES
SEA ICE
STRATIFICATION
WAVE PROPAGATION
ATMOSPHERIC FORCING
CANADA BASIN
ICE COVER
INERTIAL MOTION
TIDAL FORCING
WAVE ENERGY
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Canada
canada basin
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA572185
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA572185
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Summary:The decreasing trend in minimum sea-ice extent in the Arctic Ocean has been a topic of concern with far reaching effects. There is good reason to believe that the Arctic Ocean will become a more active ocean, with larger surface waves and more intense internal wave activity (Rainville et al., 2011). Particularly in the marginal zone, the processes controlling the response of the ocean to wind forcing span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. In this project, we use a combination of several existing instruments, satellite products, simple models, and emerging new technology to study the internal wave field in the Arctic Ocean, and the feedback processes between internal wave energy and stratification.

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