Visible and Thermal Imaging of Sea Ice and Open Water from Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness Flights

Abstract

The overall objective of the proposed research is to collect detailed information about the thermal and physical state of the ice and ocean surface in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas over at least two complete summer melt seasons in order to better understand the physical processes that control the melt, to better represent them in numerical models, and to better predict the seasonal evolution of the ice cover.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601184

Entities

People

  • Ronald Lindsay

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Aircrafts
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Climate Change
  • Coast Guard
  • High Resolution
  • Ice
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Open Water
  • Sea Ice
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Properties
  • Surface Temperature
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Polar and Arctic Studies