Upper-Ocean Variability in the Arctic's Amundsen and Nansen Basins

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
AD1013750

Entities

People

  • John M. Toole
  • Richard A. Krishfield
  • Sylvia T. Cole

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Deployment
  • Instrumentation
  • Internal Waves
  • Marginal Ice Zones
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Observation
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Regions
  • Salinity
  • Stratification
  • System Software
  • Technicians
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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