Acquisition of Ice-Tethered Profilers with Velocity (ITP-V) Instruments as a contribution to the Marginal Ice Zone DRI

The PI group seeks to observe the upper Arctic Ocean using autonomous instrumentation and build understanding of the physical processes controlling the evolving thermohaline stratification, the ocean currents and air-ice-sea interactions on time scales of minutes to interannual. This award is suppor...

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Main Authors: Toole, John M, Krishfield, Richard A, T , Fredrik
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*ARCTIC OCEAN
OCEAN CURRENTS
OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
SEA ICE
STRATIFICATION
UPPER OCEAN
ICE COVER
ITP-V(ICE-TETHERED PROFILERS WITH VELOCITY)
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA601322
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA601322
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Summary:The PI group seeks to observe the upper Arctic Ocean using autonomous instrumentation and build understanding of the physical processes controlling the evolving thermohaline stratification, the ocean currents and air-ice-sea interactions on time scales of minutes to interannual. This award is supporting the acquisition of 4 Ice-Tethered Profilers with Velocity (ITP-V) instruments as a contribution to the Marginal Ice Zone DRI. This specific research element is designed to observe the seasonal evolution of the upper-ocean stratification, document the time-varying ocean currents and characterize the turbulent ice-ocean exchanges of heat, salt and momentum as the sea ice cover retreats poleward in spring/summer.

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