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

• 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

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.