Wave Climate and Wave Mixing in the Marginal Ice Zones of Arctic Seas, Observations and Modelling

• Main Authors: Babanin, Alexander V, Young, Ian R, Zieger, S
• Other Authors: SWINBURNE UNIV OF TECHNOLOGY VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Meteorology; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Active & Passive Radar Detection & Equipment; *ALTIMETERS; *ARCTIC OCEAN; *MARINE CLIMATOLOGY; *OCEAN MODELS; BEAUFORT SEA; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHUKCHI SEA; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; GEODYNAMICS; LONG RANGE(TIME); MARGINAL ICE ZONES; MARINE GEOPHYSICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OCEAN WAVES; SEA ICE; WIND; WIND CLIMATOLOGY; WAVE CLIMATOLOGY; WAVE MODELS; SPACEBORNE RADAR ALTIMETERS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA617788; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA617788

The long-term goals of the present project are two: wind/wave climatology for the Arctic Seas and their current and potential future trends; and WAVEWATCH-III and SWAN wave models with new physics, adapted and validated for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The wind/wave climatology for the Arctic Seas will be developed based on altimeter observations. It will have a major scientific and applied significance as presently there is no reference climatology for this region of the ocean available. The new versions of wave models for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas will include new physics that is already under development, and the novel physics presently unavailable. In particular, it is planned to use a wave boundary layer model to replace traditional wind-input parameterisations. The models will be suitable for operational forecast. Altimeter climatology and the wave models will be used to study the current and future wind/wave and ice trends.