Autonomous Observations of the Upper Ocean Stratification and Velocity Fields About the Seasonally-Retreating Marginal Ice Zone. Acquisition of Ice-Tethered Profilers with Velocity (ITP-V) Instruments as a Contribution to the Marginal Ice Zone DRI

Our research seeks to build understanding of upper-ocean processes and ice-ocean interactions in the polar oceans (Arctic and Southern Ocean). Particular areas of focus include ice-ocean exchanges of momentum, heat and salt, mixed layer variability including layer deepening, vertical entrainment and...

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Main Authors: Toole, John M, Krishfield, Richard A, Cole, Sylvia T, Thwaites, Fredrik T, Timmermans, Mary-Louise
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*INTERACTIONS
*OCEANS
*SEA ICE
ARCTIC OCEAN
DYNAMICS
ENTRAINMENT
INTERNAL WAVES
MARGINAL ICE ZONES
MIXING
MOMENTUM
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
STRATIFICATION
HEAT EXCHANGE
MIXED LAYERS
SOUTHERN OCEAN
TURBULENT MIXING
Arctic
Southern Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA572579
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Summary:Our research seeks to build understanding of upper-ocean processes and ice-ocean interactions in the polar oceans (Arctic and Southern Ocean). Particular areas of focus include ice-ocean exchanges of momentum, heat and salt, mixed layer variability including layer deepening, vertical entrainment and restratification processes, and internal wave dynamics and associated turbulent mixing. With better understanding of the physical processes, improved model parameterizations and in turn, model predictions will result.

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