BIRDS EYE 2-69, 23 February-9 March 1969.
Abstract
BIRDS EYE 2-69 was a regularly scheduled Arctic Ocean ice reconnaissance mission covering the North American sector of the Arctic Basin including the peripheral seas east of Greenland and the Parry Channel in the Canadian Archipelago from 23 February to 9 March 1969. Ice observations contained in this report were made under daylight, twilight, or moonlight conditions. Adverse weather precluded detailed observations in the eastern Parry Channel, near the North Pole, and in the Greenland Sea-Denmark Strait area. Observed ice conditions revealed an area of predominately first-year ice at 83 deg 30 min N, 104 deg 18 min W and a well-defined fracture zone northeast of Greenland. In the Parry Channel, from a point north of Banks Island to Resolute, only two refrozen fractures were observed. Extensive ice coverage, as observed on BIRDS EYE 1-69 (23 January-7 February), continued to exist in the Greenland Sea. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0859547
Entities
People
- H. P. Jerdon
Organizations
- Naval Oceanographic Office