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

• 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; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA572579

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.