Surface turbulent fluxes over pack ice inferred from TOVS observations

Turbulent fluxes over the tropical Eastern Pacific

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Comparison of CERES surface radiation fluxes with surface observations over Loess Plateau

Automated Ice-Tethered Profilers for Seawater Observations under Pack Ice in All Seasons

An automated, easily deployed Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP) instrument system, developed for deployment on perennial sea ice in the polar oceans to measure changes in upper ocean water properties in all seasons, is described, and representative data from prototype instruments are presented. The ITP instrument consists of three components: a surface subsystem that sits atop an ice floe; a weighted...

Thermal Fracturing of Pack Ice

The first step was to collect, process, and examine the data from SHEBA. The meteorological data include wind speed, air temperature, and longwave and shortwave radiation. Ice core data were used to calculate an average profile of ice salinity and porosity. Snow cover variations were combined into bins to produce a time history of the fractional coverage of snow as a function of time. Ice stres...

Brine fluxes from growing sea ice

[1] It is well known that brine drainage from growing sea ice has a controlling influence on its mechanical, electromagnetic, biological and transport properties, and hence upon the buoyancy forcing and ecology in the polar oceans. When the ice has exceeded a critical thickness the drainage process is dominated by brine channels: liquid conduits extending through the ice. We describe a theoreti...