Ice draft and current measurements from the north-western Barents Sea, 1993-96

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Abrahamsen, E.P., Osterhus, S., Gammelsrod, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2006
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Glaciology; Arctic; Barents Sea; Franz Josef Land; Nordaustlandet; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Polar Research
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1/1/abrahamsen.pdf; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1/4/Ice_draft_and_current.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v25i1.6236

From 1993 to 1996, three oceanographic moorings were deployed in the north-western Barents Sea, each with a current meter and an upward-looking sonar for measuring ice drafts. These yielded three years of current and two years of ice draft measurements. An interannual variability of almost 1 m was m...