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Accession Number:
AD1029767
Title:
Evolution of a Western Arctic Ice Ocean Boundary Layer and Mixed Layer Across a Developing Thermodynamically Forced Marginal Ice Zone
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Corporate Author:
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States
Report Date:
2016-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
133.0
Abstract:
comprehensive set of autonomous, ice-ocean measurements were collected across the Canada Basin to study the summer evolution of the ice-ocean boundary layer IOBL and ocean mixed layer OML. Evaluation of local heat and freshwater balances and associated turbulent forcing reveals that melt ponds strongly influence the summer IOBL-OML evolution. The areal expansion and drainage of melt ponds resulted in a substantial increase in upper ocean heat storage 39 MJm-2 and development of the summer mixed layer and near-surface temperature maximum NSTM. 1-D boundary layer model results show that melt pond drainage provided sufficient buoyancy to the summer halocline to prevent subsequent wind events from mixing out the NSTM. Ice Camp observations captured the development of a second shallower NSTM in late summer however, melt water contributions were inadequate to sustain this feature when winds increased. In the marginal ice zone MIZ, thermal heterogeneities in the upper ocean led to large ocean-to-ice heat fluxes 100200 Wm-2 and enhanced basal ice melt 36 cm-day-1. Calculation of the upper ocean heat budget shows that the extensive area of deteriorating sea ice observed away from the ice edge during the 2014 season, termed the thermodynamically forced MIZ, was driven primarily by local solar radiative heat input.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
