Insulating Effect of a Snow Cover on the Growth of Young Sea Ice
"The vertical temperature profile through a section of the air-snow-ice system was measured daily off Point Barrow (Alaska) during the late winter and early spring of 1950. Nine thermistors were spaced from 2 m above the snow to a depth of 85 cm in the ice. Four control areas with varying thick...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/66854 2023-05-15T14:19:21+02:00 Insulating Effect of a Snow Cover on the Growth of Young Sea Ice Holtsmark, B.E. 1955-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66854 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66854/50767 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66854 ARCTIC; Vol. 8 No. 1 (1955): Winter: 1–80; 60-65 1923-1245 0004-0843 Cairns info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1955 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:23:36Z "The vertical temperature profile through a section of the air-snow-ice system was measured daily off Point Barrow (Alaska) during the late winter and early spring of 1950. Nine thermistors were spaced from 2 m above the snow to a depth of 85 cm in the ice. Four control areas with varying thicknesses of snow cover were used to measure simultaneously the different amounts of ice growth. Snow temperatures at 7 cm varied only 9 C (-7 to -16 C) while the air temperatures varied from -10 to -32 C. The ice growth in the absence of a snow cover was nearly 50 percent greater than under 2 m of snow. Present knowledge is not sufficient to predict ice thickness from snow-cover thickness, but results of earlier studies suggest that a hyperbolic relationship exists."--SIPRE. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Barrow Point Barrow Sea ice Alaska University of Calgary Journal Hosting ARCTIC 8 1 |
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"The vertical temperature profile through a section of the air-snow-ice system was measured daily off Point Barrow (Alaska) during the late winter and early spring of 1950. Nine thermistors were spaced from 2 m above the snow to a depth of 85 cm in the ice. Four control areas with varying thicknesses of snow cover were used to measure simultaneously the different amounts of ice growth. Snow temperatures at 7 cm varied only 9 C (-7 to -16 C) while the air temperatures varied from -10 to -32 C. The ice growth in the absence of a snow cover was nearly 50 percent greater than under 2 m of snow. Present knowledge is not sufficient to predict ice thickness from snow-cover thickness, but results of earlier studies suggest that a hyperbolic relationship exists."--SIPRE. |
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Insulating Effect of a Snow Cover on the Growth of Young Sea Ice |
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Insulating Effect of a Snow Cover on the Growth of Young Sea Ice |
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