- Title
- An autonomous approach to observing the seasonal ice zone in the western arctic
- Creator
- Lee, Craig M.; Thomson, Jim; The Marginal Ice Zone Team,; The Arctic Sea State Team ,
- Relation
- Oceanography Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 56-68
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2017.222
- Publisher
- The Oceanography Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The Marginal Ice Zone and Arctic Sea State programs examined the processes that govern evolution of the rapidly changing seasonal ice zone in the Beaufort Sea. Autonomous platforms operating from the ice and within the water column collected measurements across the atmosphere-ice-ocean system and provided the persistence to sample continuously through the springtime retreat and autumn advance of sea ice. Autonomous platforms also allowed operational modalities that reduced the field programs’ logistical requirements. Observations indicate that thermodynamics, especially the radiative balances of the ice-albedo feedback, govern the seasonal cycle of sea ice, with the role of surface waves confined to specific events. Continuous sampling from winter into autumn also reveals the imprint of winter ice conditions and fracturing on summertime floe size distribution. These programs demonstrate effective use of integrated systems of autonomous platforms for persistent, multiscale Arctic observing. Networks of autonomous systems are well suited to capturing the vast scales of variability inherent in the Arctic system.
- Subject
- marginal ice zone; Arctic Sea; observation; seasonal ice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1479020
- Identifier
- uon:50266
- Identifier
- ISSN:1042-8275
- Rights
- This is an open access article made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format as long as users cite the materials appropriately, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate the changes that were made to the original content. Images, animations, videos, or other third-party material used in articles are included in the Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission directly from the license holder to reproduce the material.
- Language
- eng
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