A Science Plan for a Summer Marginal Ice Zone Experiment in the Fram Strait/Greenland Sea: 1984
Author
Johannessen, O.M.
Hibbler, W.D. III
Wadhams, P.
Campbell, W.J.
Hasselman, K.
Dyer, I.
Dunbar, M.
Date
1984Metadata
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This document describes a plan for a mesoscalel
experimen to study the physical processes by
which ice, water and atmosphere interact in the
outermost parts of a polar icefield, the region
known as the marginal ice zone (MIZ). During the
last two decades a series of large projects culminating
in the Arctic lee Dynamics Joint Experiment
(AIDJEX, Pritchard 1980) yielded considerable
understanding of the growth, motion and decay of
sea ice in the interior of the Arctic Ocean. With
these experiments concluded, and coupled nonlinear
sea ice dynamic- thermodynamic models in
hand (Hibler 1979, Coon 1980), attention shifted
to the problem of understanding the processes
which occur near the open ocean boundaries of
polar icefields, and which determine the advance
and retreat of the sea ice edge. The exchanges
which take place in this zone affect hemispheric
climate and have a significant effect on naval operation
and commercial fisheries.