Research Summaries

Back IPY: Towards Developing an Arctic Observing Network: An Array of Surface Buoys to Sample Turbulent Ocean Heat and Salt Fluxes During the IPY

Fiscal Year 2007
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Stanton, Timothy P.
Sponsor National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary Observations of vertical fluxes of heat, salt and momentum between the ocean interior and surface are important to our understanding and modeling of processes that maintain perennial ice cover in the arctic, particularly at a time of such rapid changes in ice coverage and volume. These changes have direct impact on strategic naval issues as most climate models, that depend on improved small-scale physical parameterizations, show perennial ice cover disappearing in the next 20 years, opening trans-Arctic Sea lanes and altering defense requirements in the region. This is a proposal to continue ocean flux deployments in the Central Arctic and to extend deployment to the Western Arctic in order to improve GCM parameterizations of the complex ocean-ice-atmosphere coupled system.
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