Sea Ice. Part 1. Bulk Salinity Versus Ice Floe Thickness,

Abstract

Mathematical expressions have been established for estimating the bulk salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice vs. ice floe thickness. The ice salinity vs. thickness relationships are based on data for over 400 sea ice cores compiled from numerous sources. The results show that the bulk salinity of first year sea ice decreases in an exponential trend with ice sheet thickness. A similar trend reoccurs as the winter ice passes through the melt season. The expression for the bulk salinity S sub B in parts per thousand for first-year sea ice from 10 to 200cm thick is S sub B =4.606 + 91.6O3/TF, where TF the ice floe thickness in centimeters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA312027

Entities

People

  • Austin Kovacs

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aqueous Solutions
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Civil Engineering
  • Cold Regions
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Glaciers
  • Glaciology
  • Heat Energy
  • Mechanics
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Physical Properties
  • Sea Ice
  • Thickness
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies