Processes and imagery of first-year fast sea ice during the melt season
In June and July 1982, a field program was conducted in the Canadian Arctic on Prince Patrick Island to study sea ice during the melt season with in situ measurements and microwave instrumentation operated near the surface and from aircraft. The objective of the program was to measure physical chara...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19850053021 2023-05-15T15:03:08+02:00 Processes and imagery of first-year fast sea ice during the melt season Holt, B. Digby, S. A. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available May 20, 1985 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19850053021 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19850053021 Accession ID: 85A35172 Copyright Other Sources 48 Journal of Geophysical Research; 90; 5045-506 1985 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T16:23:12Z In June and July 1982, a field program was conducted in the Canadian Arctic on Prince Patrick Island to study sea ice during the melt season with in situ measurements and microwave instrumentation operated near the surface and from aircraft. The objective of the program was to measure physical characteristics together with microwave backscatter and emission coefficients of sea ice during this major period of transition. The present paper is concerned with a study of both surface measurements and imagery of first-year fast ice during the melt season. The melting process observed in first-year fast ice was found to begin with the gradual reduction of the snow cover. For a two- to three-day period in this melt stage, a layer of superimposed ice nodules formed at the snow/ice interface as meltwater froze around ice and snow grains. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Prince Patrick Island Sea ice NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Arctic Prince Patrick Island ENVELOPE(-119.507,-119.507,76.751,76.751) |
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In June and July 1982, a field program was conducted in the Canadian Arctic on Prince Patrick Island to study sea ice during the melt season with in situ measurements and microwave instrumentation operated near the surface and from aircraft. The objective of the program was to measure physical characteristics together with microwave backscatter and emission coefficients of sea ice during this major period of transition. The present paper is concerned with a study of both surface measurements and imagery of first-year fast ice during the melt season. The melting process observed in first-year fast ice was found to begin with the gradual reduction of the snow cover. For a two- to three-day period in this melt stage, a layer of superimposed ice nodules formed at the snow/ice interface as meltwater froze around ice and snow grains. |
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Processes and imagery of first-year fast sea ice during the melt season |
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