What is the Role of the Sensible Heat Flux on the Surface Heat Budget of Multi-year Sea Ice?

• Main Authors: Guest, Peter S., Persson, Ola G., Andreas, Edgar L., Fairall, Christopher W.
• Other Authors: Meteorology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/46043

J1.4 The authors carried out a comprehensive measurement program to determine the surface energy budget at the SHEBA site. This paper will focus on the characteristics of the air-ice sensible heat flux and its role in the surface energy budget. The results discussed here are based on covariance measurements at the main tower site. We continuously sampled the sensible heat flux for almost an entire year at nominal levels of 2 m, 3 m, 5 m, 8 m and 18 m. The National Science Foundation supported this work with grants to the Naval Postgraduate School, the Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, NOAA’s Environmental Technology Laboratory, and CIRES at the University of Colorado.