Ocean Profile Measurements During the Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys

• Main Author: Morison, James
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE POLAR SCIENCE CENTER
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Meteorology; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *AIR WATER INTERACTIONS; *MARGINAL ICE ZONES; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; DATA ACQUISITION; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; SIZRS(SEASONAL ICE ZONE RECONNAISSANCE SURVEYS); SIZ(SEASONAL SEA ICE ZONE); ADA(ARCTIC DOMAIN AWARENESS); Arctic; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA617903; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA617903

This grant is part of the Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys (SIZRS) program of repeated ocean, ice, and atmospheric measurements across the Beaufort-Chukchi sea seasonal sea ice zone (SIZ) utilizing US Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness (ADA) flights of opportunity. This report covers our grant to make ocean temperature, salinity, velocity and mixing profile measurements across the SIZ. Our long-term goal is to track and understand the interplay among the ice, atmosphere, and ocean contributing to the rapid decline in summer ice extent that has occurred in recent years. The SIZ is the region between maximum winter sea ice extent and minimum summer sea ice extent. As such, it contains the full range of positions of the marginal ice zone (MIZ) where sea ice interacts with open water.