Sea Spray and Icing in the Emerging Open Water of the Arctic Ocean

Abstract

The goal of this project is to develop the capability to quantify both the concentration of sea spray over the open ocean and the severity of sea spray icing on fixed offshore structures. We will use information on the relationship of the spray concentration distribution to wind speed (e.g., Lewis and Schwarz 2004; Andreas et al. 2010; Jones and Andreas 2012) to estimate the sea spray climatology in ice-free northern oceans from reanalysis data and the time-varying extent of the sea ice cover. Our field campaigns in the second and third years will focus on measuring sea spray parameters and relevant meteorological conditions to characterize spray drop distributions at high wind speeds and cold temperatures. Sea spray data at high wind speeds are sparse, and there are no measurements of the spray drop concentration at air temperatures below freezing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA617969

Entities

People

  • Edgar L. Andreas
  • Kathleen F. Jones

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Drops
  • Engineering
  • Heat Energy
  • Latent Heat
  • Liquids
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Oceans
  • Offshore Structures
  • Open Water
  • Sea Ice
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies