Accession Number:

AD1013749

Title:

Autonomous Observations of the Upper Ocean Stratification and Velocity Fields About the Seasonally-Retreating Marginal Ice Zone

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole United States

Personal Author(s):

• Toole,John M.
• Krishfield,Richard A.
• Timmermans,Mary-Louise
• Cole,Sylvia T.
• Thwaites,Fredrik T.

Report Date:

2015-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

The PI group seeks to observe the upper Arctic Ocean using autonomous instrumentation and build understanding of the physical processes controlling the evolving thermohaline stratification, the ocean currents and air-ice-sea interactions on time scales of minutes to seasonal and longer.

Descriptors:

• marginal ice zones
• arctic ocean
• observation
• stratification
• ocean currents
• instrumentation

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE