Observations and modeling of the Marginal Ice Zone

• Main Author: Di Noto, Giacomo
• Other Authors: Pinardi, Nadia
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2016
• Subjects: Sea-Ice Marginal-Ice-Zone Waves Modeling; Fisica del sistema terra [LM-DM270]; Arctic; Barents Sea; Christensen; Marko; Pacific; Stephenson; Beaufort Sea; Climate change; Labrador Sea; Nordic Seas; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://amslaurea.unibo.it/10228/; http://amslaurea.unibo.it/10228/1/DiNoto_Giacomo_tesi.pdf

Global climate change in recent decades has strongly influenced the Arctic generating pronounced warming accompanied by significant reduction of sea ice in seasonally ice-covered seas and a dramatic increase of open water regions exposed to wind [Stephenson et al., 2011]. By strongly scattering the w...