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

Abstract

Our long-term goals are to better understand the interaction of sea ice with the regional and global climate and to improve the skill of predicting the evolution of the ice on daily to decadal time scales. 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 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, 2014
Accession Number
ADA617865

Entities

People

  • C. Chris Chickadel
  • Ronald Lindsay

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Cameras
  • Climate Change
  • Coast Guard
  • Drops
  • High Resolution
  • Ice
  • Measurement
  • Oceans
  • Open Water
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sea Ice
  • Surface Properties
  • Surface Temperature
  • Test Methods
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Polar and Arctic Studies