The role of waves in the autumn Arctic Ocean

• Main Author: Smith, Madison
• Other Authors: Thomson, Jim
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; sea ice; surface waves; Physical oceanography; Geophysics; Civil engineering; Arctic; Pancake; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/44760

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019 Recent decline of sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean has resulted in a substantial seasonal wave climate. Waves generated in the open water are attenuated far into the sea ice, but are a defining feature of the marginal ice zone (MIZ). In autumn, wave...