Autonomous Observations of the Upper Ocean Stratification and Velocity Fields About the Seasonally-Retreating Marginal Ice Zone

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. As a contribution to...

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Main Authors: Toole, John M, Krishfield, Richard A, Timmermans, Mary-Louse, Cole, Sylvia T, Thwaites, Fredrik T
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*ARCTIC OCEAN
MARGINAL ICE ZONES
OCEAN CURRENTS
OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
SEA ICE
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
STRATIFICATION
UPPER OCEAN
ITP-V(ICE-TETHERED PROFILERS WITH VELOCITY)
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA601323
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA601323
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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. As a contribution to the Marginal Ice Zone DRI, this 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. Prepared in cooperation with Yale University, New Haven, CT.

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