Autonomous Observations of the Upper Ocean Stratification and Velocity Fields About the Seasonally-Retreating Marginal Ice Zone

Abstract

The PI group seeks to observe the upper Arctic Ocean using autonomous instrumentation and build understanding of the physical processes controlling the evolving thermohaline stratification, the ocean currents and air-ice-sea interactions on time scales of minutes to seasonal and longer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013749

Entities

People

  • Fredrik T. Thwaites
  • John M. Toole
  • Mary-Louise Timmermans
  • Richard A. Krishfield
  • Sylvia T. Cole

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Data Processing
  • Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Ice
  • Instrumentation
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Marginal Ice Zones
  • Observation
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Open Water
  • Regions
  • Sea Ice
  • Stratification
  • Stratified Fluids

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers