Early Student Support for the Study of Inertial Motions in the Arctic Ocean

The decreasing trend in minimum Arctic Ocean sea-ice extent has been a topic of concern with far reaching effects. At least seasonally, there are good reasons to believe that the Arctic Ocean will become a more dynamically active ocean, with larger surface waves, stronger lateral fronts, and more in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rainville, Luc
Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*ARCTIC OCEAN
*INTERNAL WAVES
ENERGY
INERTIA
MARGINAL ICE ZONES
MOTION
STUDENTS
SURFACE WAVES
WIND
INTERNAL WAVE FIELDS
INERTIAL MOTIONS
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA617905
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA617905
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Summary:The decreasing trend in minimum Arctic Ocean sea-ice extent has been a topic of concern with far reaching effects. At least seasonally, there are good reasons to believe that the Arctic Ocean will become a more dynamically active ocean, with larger surface waves, stronger lateral fronts, and more intense internal wave activity. Particularly in the marginal ice zone, the processes controlling the response of the ocean to wind forcing span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. In this project, we use a combination of existing instruments and simple models to study the internal wave field in the Arctic Ocean, and the feedback processes between internal wave energy and stratification.

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