Exploring integrated kinetic energy of polar mesoscale storms to estimate sea ice formation and salt fluxes in the Weddell Sea

• Main Author: Bernstein, Elizabeth Rachel
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Delaware 2015
• Subjects: Mesometeorology; Cyclones > Antarctica > Weddell Sea; Sea ice > Antarctica > Weddell Sea; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Geiger; Indian; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/16993

This dissertation examines the relationship between polar cyclones and sea ice cover. Through this research, an archive of polar cyclones is created. The archive contains storms for the time period 01 January 1979 through 31 August 2014 for the Weddell Sea, a region east of the Antarctic Peninsula e...