Forecasting Future Sea Ice Conditions: A Lagrangian Approach

Abstract

We use a Lagrangian trajectory model to track the dynamics of the multi-year and first year ice boundary, defined as the minimum ice edge in September. To this end, we 1) identify the source regions for sea ice that melts and sea ice that survives the summer melt season in each of the Arctic peripheral seas as well as 2) sea ice area export through Fram Strait, and net sea-ice divergence/convergence in each of the Arctic peripheral seas for each year of satellite observations or modeled ice motion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013753

Entities

People

  • Bruno Tremblay

Organizations

  • Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Barents Sea
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Case Studies
  • Climate Change
  • Data Centers
  • Data Sets
  • Grids
  • Heat Flux
  • High Resolution
  • Inversion
  • Lapse Rate
  • Oceans
  • Sea Ice
  • Temperature Inversion
  • Trajectories
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Polar and Arctic Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris