Early Student Support for Studies of Small-Scale Upper Ocean Variability and Surface Forcing in the Arctic Ocean
Abstract
This project supported Mr. Samuel Brenner, a graduate student in the University of Washington Oceanography program. The decreasing trend in minimum sea-ice extent in the Arctic Ocean has been a topic of concern with far reaching effects. Particularly near the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ), mix of ice and open water, combined with variations in ice surface and keel roughness, lead to a complex balance that varies over short spatial and temporal scales. Ocean properties and air-ice ocean fluxes are therefore highly heterogeneous near the ice. This project linked several data sets and approaches from recent ONR projects, focusing on the air-sea-ice interactions near the ice edge. Sam's work involved a combination of the analysis of existing observational data and numerical modeling to study sub-mesoscale dynamics and air-ice-sea feedback processes in the Arctic Ocean.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 11, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1184048
Entities
People
- Jim Thomson
- Luc Rainville
Organizations
- University of Washington