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Filtering by: Creator Miller, Heather M. Degree Field Oceanography Resource Type Undergraduate Thesis

A Case Study of Solar Warming and Subsequent Mixing in the Arctic Upper Ocean for the 2011 Spring-Summer Transition

Creator:

Lee, Ara

Abstract:

Autonomous buoys were deployed in 2011 in the central Arctic: An Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP) and Ice Mass Balance (IMB) buoys were deployed in the Makarov basin; a Polar Ocean Profiling System (POPS) and Ice Thickness (Ice-T) buoy were deployed on the Eurasian Basin. The two different sites were approximately 70km...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis

Full Text:

transmission increases the ocean heat flux, leading to an estimated annual basal ice melt of up to 1.3 m