UpTempO Buoys for Understanding and Prediction

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to better understand the evolution of heat content in the upper Arctic Ocean within the Seasonal Ice Zone (SIZ), both seasonally during summer warming and fall cooling, and interannually as sea ice retreats and the warming season lengthens. The effort is a contribution to the multi-investigator ONR-sponsored SIZRS project (SIZ Reconnaissance Surveys). Our main objectives are to: (1) Develop the capability to observe upper ocean warming and cooling using air-deployed ocean drifting buoys. (2) Better understand the time and space scales of summer warming in the SIZ. (3) Investigate the relationships between sea ice retreat and upper ocean warming.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA617867

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Steele

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Cardboard Boxes
  • Chukchi Sea
  • Climate Change
  • Coast Guard
  • Continental Shelves
  • Divers
  • Drops
  • Enthalpy
  • Marginal Ice Zones
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sea Ice
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Space