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

Abstract

This grant funded the deployment of an Ice-Tethered Profiler with Velocity (ITP-V) instrument during the summer 2015 Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System cruise and analysis of data. The observations explore upper ocean variability and ice-ocean interaction in the Arctic's Amundsen and Nansen Basins as a complement to those made in the Canada Basin during the Marginal Ice Zone DRI program of 2014. The fieldwork leveraged other ITP deployments supported by the NSF Arctic Observing Network program. Analysis of the recovered data extend the findings of the MIZ program to the European sector of the Arctic with its markedly different thermohaline stratification.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1033481

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Data Analysis
  • Deployment
  • Dynamics
  • Instructions
  • Internal Waves
  • Marginal Ice Zones
  • Mixing
  • Momentum
  • Momentum Transfer
  • Oceans
  • Regions
  • Remote Sensing
  • Sea Ice
  • Sea Water
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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