Extension of NHWAVE to Couple LAMMPS for Modeling Wave Interactions with Arctic Ice Floes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengyan Shi ◽  
James T. Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Wave Interactions ◽  
Arctic Ice ◽  
Ice Floes

scholarly journals AN OIL SLICK IGNITER FOR REMOTE AREAS

1981 ◽  
Vol 1981 (1) ◽  
pp. 617-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Meikle
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Field Conditions ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Oil Slick ◽  
Arctic Ice ◽  
Ice Floes ◽  
Spilled Oil

ABSTRACT Two air-droppable igniters have been developed to ignite oil on the surface of melt pools on Arctic ice floes and in other remote, difficult-of-access locations. Performance has been satisfactorily demonstrated by prototype tests under both laboratory and field conditions. A substantial amount of spilled oil that would be prohibitively unsafe or expensive to remove by any other means can now be burned off to reduce adverse effects on the environment.

Near-Real-Time Tracking and Integrated Forecasting of Arctic Ice Floes

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Anno ◽  
K. Soofi ◽  
B. Cobb ◽  
J. Santosuosso ◽  
C. Yetsko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Tracking ◽  
Arctic Ice ◽  
Ice Floes

Automated Tracking of Arctic Ice Floes in Multitemporal Sar Imagery

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. McConnell ◽  
W. Kober ◽  
F. Leberl ◽  
R. Kwok ◽  
J. Curlander
Keyword(s):  
Automated Tracking ◽  
Sar Imagery ◽  
Arctic Ice ◽  
Ice Floes

scholarly journals Sea-ice freeboard retrieval using digital photon-counting laser altimetry

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (69) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinéad L. Farrell ◽  
Kelly M. Brunt ◽  
Julia M. Ruth ◽  
John M. Kuhn ◽  
Laurence N. Connor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Photon Counting ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Ice Thickness ◽  
Laser Altimeter ◽  
Sea Ice Thickness ◽  
Counting Data ◽  
Digital Photon Counting ◽  
Arctic Ice ◽  
Ice Floes

AbstractAirborne and spaceborne altimeters provide measurements of sea-ice elevation, from which sea-ice freeboard and thickness may be derived. Observations of the Arctic ice pack by satellite altimeters indicate a significant decline in ice thickness, and volume, over the last decade. NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is a next-generation laser altimeter designed to continue key sea-ice observations through the end of this decade. An airborne simulator for ICESat-2, the Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL), has been deployed to gather pre-launch data for mission development. We present an analysis of MABEL data gathered over sea ice in the Greenland Sea and assess the capabilities of photon-counting techniques for sea-ice freeboard retrieval. We compare freeboard estimates in the marginal ice zone derived from MABEL photon-counting data with coincident data collected by a conventional airborne laser altimeter. We find that freeboard estimates agree to within 0.03 m in the areas where sea-ice floes were interspersed with wide leads, and to within 0.07 m elsewhere. MABEL data may also be used to infer sea-ice thickness, and when compared with coincident but independent ice thickness estimates, MABEL ice thicknesses agreed to within 0.65 m or better.

scholarly journals Interplay between linear, dissipative and permanently critical mechanical processes in Arctic sea ice

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1433-1448
Author(s):  
A. Chmel ◽  
V. Smirnov ◽  
A. Panov
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Thermodynamic System ◽  
Arctic Sea Ice ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Fractal Structures ◽  
Discrete Energy ◽  
Stick Slip ◽  
Arctic Ice ◽  
Ice Floes ◽  
Ice Pack

Abstract. Mechanical processes in the Arctic ice pack result in fragmented sea ice cover, the regular geometry of which could be described in main features in terms of the conventional mechanics. However, the size distribution of sea ice floes does not exhibit the random (poissonian-like) statistics and follows the power law typical for self-similar (fractal) structures. The analysis of ice floe oscillations in the frequency range specific for cracking, shearing and stick-slip motion evidences the self-organized dynamics of sea ice fracturing, which manifests itself in scaling distributions of both the discrete energy discharges in fracture events and the recurrence times between that one. So determined space-time-energy self-similarity characterises the ice pack as the non-equilibrium, nonlinear thermodynamic system where the synergic relations are established through conventional long propagating wave/oscillations. The presented experimental data were collected at the Russian ice-research camp "North Pole 35" drifting on the Arctic ice pack in 2008.

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