Quantifying the Role of Atmospheric Forcing in Ice Edge Retreat and Advance Including Wind-Wave Coupling

• Main Authors: Guest, Peter S, Fairall, Christopher W, Persson, P O
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Meteorology; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *AIR WATER INTERACTIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE; MARGINAL ICE ZONES; MASS TRANSFER; OCEAN WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; WIND; WIND-WAVE COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CHUKCHI SEA; BEAUFORT SEA; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA601217; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA601217

The Long-Term Goals are: 1. Representing surface fluxes and ocean waves in coupled models in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. 2. Understand the physics of heat and mass transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere. 3. Improve forecasting of waves on the open ocean and in the marginal ice zone. Prepared in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, and the University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO.