Research Summaries

Back Ocean-Ice Interaction Measurements Using Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys in the Arctic Observing System

Fiscal Year 2007
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Stanton, Timothy P.
Sponsor National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary This study will provide the community with an important source of data, which will significantly increase knowledge of ocean/ice fluxes and their variability at ice drift locations within the Arctic Ocean over a four year period. The publicly available data from the proposed array of ITP instruments will provide the basis for both process studies and model validation/assimilation research, work that will ultimately lead to better understanding of the Arctic Ocean's role in global climate change. The AOFB will contribute a component of a viable, sustained ocean-ice-atmosphere observing system comparable to the ARGO program now operational for the temperate oceans (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/), at a time of great change in the perennial ice cover in the Arctic. The AOFB exploits the stability of the ice as a platform to directly measure turbulent fluxes through the ocean missed layer, not attainable at temperate latitudes, and will continue to contribute to our understanding of turbulent transport of momentum, heat and salt in the ocean.
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