Waves and fetch in the Marginal Ice Zone
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The technical approach is to use Surface Wave Instrument Floats with Tracking (SWIFT) buoys to measure waves, winds, and turbulence at the air-sea-ice interface (Thomson, 2012). The SWIFT deployments were successfully completed during the summer of 2014. These seasonal SWIFT measurements are placed in context using mutliyear subsurface Acoustic Wave And Current (AWAC) moorings and regional WAVEWATCH3 model results.
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