Marine icing observed on KV Nordkapp during a cold air outbreak with a developing polar low in the Barents sea.

• Main Authors: Samuelsen, Eirik Mikal, Løset, Sveinung, Edvardsen, Kåre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions 2015
• Subjects: Polar low; Arctic; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Meteorologi: 453; Marine icing; Barents Sea; Tromsø; Bjørnøya; Nordkapp
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8583

Marine icing is a phenomenon that may occur for temperatures below subfreezing where sea spray either is lofted from the sea surface or being generated by waves interacting with a ship or a structure. On a voyage from Tromsø to the waters east of Bjørnøya late February 1987, the Norwegian Coast Guar...