scholarly journals Seasonal variation of upwelling in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea: Impact of sea ice cover

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (C6) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena M. Schulze ◽  
Robert S. Pickart
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover

scholarly journals Albedo of Melting Sea Ice in the Southern Beaufort Sea

1971 ◽  
Vol 10 (58) ◽  
pp. 101-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.P. Langleben
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Short Wave ◽  
Wave Radiation ◽  
Short Wave Radiation ◽  
Melting Period ◽  
Fast Ice ◽  
Made In

AbstractTwo Kipp hemispherical radiometers mounted back to back and suspended by an 18 m cable from a helicopter flying at an altitude of about 90 m were used to make measurements of incident and reflected short-wave radiation. The helicopter was brought to a hovering position at the instant of measurement to ensure that the radiometers were in the proper attitude and a photograph of the ice cover was taken at the same time. The observations were made in 1969 during 16 flights out of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (lat. 69° 26’N., long. 133° 02’W.) over the fast ice extending 80 km north of Tuktoyaktuk. Values of albedo of the ice cover were found to decrease during the melting period according to the equation A = 0.59 —0.32P where P is the degree of puddling of the surface.

Increasing Multiyear Sea Ice Loss in the Beaufort Sea: A New Export Pathway for the Diminishing Multiyear Ice Cover of the Arctic Ocean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gareth Babb ◽  
Ryan J. Galley ◽  
Stephen E. L. Howell ◽  
Jack Christopher Landy ◽  
Julienne Christine Stroeve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Export Pathway ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
Multiyear Ice

scholarly journals Melting of Perennial Sea Ice in the Beaufort Sea Enhanced Its Impacts on Early-Winter Haze Pollution in North China after the Mid-1990s

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 5061-5080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuyan Li ◽  
Zhicong Yin
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
North China ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Gulf Of Alaska ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies ◽  
Haze Days ◽  
Perennial Ice

AbstractIn recent years, haze pollution has become the most concerning environmental issue in China due to its tremendous negative effects. In this study, we focus on the enhanced responses of December–January haze days in North China to September–October sea ice in the Beaufort Sea during 1998–2015. Via both observation and numerical approaches, compared with an earlier period (1980–97), the sea ice concentration in the Beaufort Sea presented large variability during 1998–2015. During 1980–97, the Beaufort Sea was mainly covered by perennial ice, and the ablation and freezing of sea ice mainly occurred at the south edge of the Beaufort Sea. Thus, heavy sea ice in autumn induced negative sea surface temperature anomalies across the Gulf of Alaska in November. However, the colder sea surface in the Gulf of Alaska only induced a weak influence on the haze-associated atmospheric circulations. In contrast, during 1998–2015, a drastic change in sea ice existed near the center of the Arctic Ocean, due to the massive melting of multiyear sea ice in the western Beaufort Sea. The perennial ice cover in the western Beaufort Sea was replaced by seasonal ice. The broader sea ice cover resulted in positive sea surface temperature anomalies in the following November. Then, suitable atmospheric backgrounds were induced for haze pollution in December and January. Simultaneously, the response of the number of haze days over North China to sea ice cover increased. These findings were verified by the CESM-LE simulations and aided in deepening the understanding of the cause of haze pollution.

A 14 - 0 ka record of trends and events of sea ice cover, primary production and freshwater discharge in the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjie Wu ◽  
Ruediger Stein ◽  
Kirsten Fahl ◽  
Nicole Syring ◽  
Jens Hefter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Primary Production ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Sediment Flux ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Proxy Records ◽  
Ice Retreat ◽  
Sea Ice Retreat ◽  
Natural Climate

<p>The Arctic is changing rapidly, and one of the main and most obvious features is the drastic sea-ice retreat over the past few decades. Over such time scales, observations are deficient and not long enough for deciphering the processes controlling this accelerated sea-ice retreat. Thus, high-resolution, longer-term proxy records are needed for reconstruction of natural climate variability. In this context, we applied a biomarker approach on the well-dated sediment core ARA04C/37 recovered in the southern Beaufort Sea directly off the Mackenzie River, an area that is characterized by strong seasonal variability in sea-ice cover, primary productivity and terrigenous (riverine) input. Based on our biomarker records, the Beaufort Sea region was nearly ice-free in summer during the late Deglacial to early Holocene (14 to 8 ka). During the mid-late Holocene (8 to 0 ka), a seasonal sea-ice cover developed, coinciding with a drop in both terrigenous sediment flux and primary production. Supported by multiple proxy records, two major flood events characterized by prominent maxima in sediment flux occurred near 13 and 11 ka. The former is coincident with the Younger Dryas Cooling Event probably triggered by a  freshwater outburst from the Lake Agassiz. The origin of the second (younger) one might represent a second Mackenzie flood event, coinciding with meltwater pulse IB/post-glacial flooding of the shelf and related increased coastal erosion. Here, our interpretation remains a little bit speculative, and further research is needed and also in progress.</p>

scholarly journals Robust wavebuoys for the marginal ice zone: Experiences from a large persistent array in the Beaufort Sea

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Doble ◽  
Jeremy P. Wilkinson ◽  
Lovro Valcic ◽  
Jeremy Robst ◽  
Andrew Tait ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Naval Research ◽  
Ice Dynamics ◽  
Office Of Naval Research ◽  
Marginal Ice Zone ◽  
Sample Frequency

An array of novel directional wavebuoys was designed and deployed into the Beaufort Sea ice cover in March 2014, as part of the Office of Naval Research Marginal Ice Zone experiment. The buoys were designed to drift with the ice throughout the year and monitor the expected breakup and retreat of the ice cover, forced by waves travelling into the ice from open water. Buoys were deployed from fast-and-light air-supported ice camps, based out of Sachs Harbour on Canada’s Banks Island, and drifted westwards with the sea ice over the course of spring, summer and autumn, as the ice melted, broke up and finally re-froze. The buoys transmitted heave, roll and pitch timeseries at 1 Hz sample frequency over the course of up to eight months, surviving both convergent ice dynamics and significant waves-in-ice events. Twelve of the 19 buoys survived until their batteries were finally exhausted during freeze-up in late October/November. Ice impact was found to have contaminated a significant proportion of the Kalman-filter-derived heave records, and these bad records were removed with reference to raw x/y/z accelerations. The quality of magnetometer-derived buoy headings at the very high magnetic field inclinations close to the magnetic pole was found to be generally acceptable, except in the case of four buoys which had probably suffered rough handling during transport to the ice. In general, these new buoys performed as expected, though vigilance as to the veracity of the output is required.

scholarly journals Albedo of Melting Sea Ice in the Southern Beaufort Sea

1971 ◽  
Vol 10 (58) ◽  
pp. 101-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.P. Langleben
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Short Wave ◽  
Wave Radiation ◽  
Short Wave Radiation ◽  
Melting Period ◽  
Fast Ice ◽  
Made In

Two Kipp hemispherical radiometers mounted back to back and suspended by an 18 m cable from a helicopter flying at an altitude of about 90 m were used to make measurements of incident and reflected short-wave radiation. The helicopter was brought to a hovering position at the instant of measurement to ensure that the radiometers were in the proper attitude and a photograph of the ice cover was taken at the same time. The observations were made in 1969 during 16 flights out of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (lat. 69° 26’N., long. 133° 02’W.) over the fast ice extending 80 km north of Tuktoyaktuk. Values of albedo of the ice cover were found to decrease during the melting period according to the equationA= 0.59 —0.32PwherePis the degree of puddling of the surface.

scholarly journals Regional variability in sea ice melt in a changing Arctic

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2045) ◽  
pp. 20140165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald K. Perovich ◽  
Jacqueline A. Richter-Menge
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Arctic Sea Ice ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Regional Variability ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Surface Melt

In recent years, the Arctic sea ice cover has undergone a precipitous decline in summer extent. The sea ice mass balance integrates heat and provides insight on atmospheric and oceanic forcing. The amount of surface melt and bottom melt that occurs during the summer melt season was measured at 41 sites over the time period 1957 to 2014. There are large regional and temporal variations in both surface and bottom melting. Combined surface and bottom melt ranged from 16 to 294 cm, with a mean of 101 cm. The mean ice equivalent surface melt was 48 cm and the mean bottom melt was 53 cm. On average, surface melting decreases moving northward from the Beaufort Sea towards the North Pole; however interannual differences in atmospheric forcing can overwhelm the influence of latitude. Substantial increases in bottom melting are a major contributor to ice losses in the Beaufort Sea, due to decreases in ice concentration. In the central Arctic, surface and bottom melting demonstrate interannual variability, but show no strong temporal trends from 2000 to 2014. This suggests that under current conditions, summer melting in the central Arctic is not large enough to completely remove the sea ice cover.

Investigating the effects of ocean layering and sea ice cover on acoustic propagation in the Beaufort Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 1742-1743
Author(s):  
Jason D. Sagers ◽  
Megan S. Ballard ◽  
David P. Knobles ◽  
Mohsen Badiey ◽  
Andreas Muenchow
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Acoustic Propagation

Seasonal variations in the properties and structural composition of sea ice and snow cover in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas, Antarctica

1997 ◽  
Vol 43 (143) ◽  
pp. 138-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. Jeffries ◽  
K. Morris ◽  
W.F. Weeks ◽  
A. P. Worby
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Isotopic Composition ◽  
Snow Cover ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Snow Accumulation ◽  
Ice Formation ◽  
Frazil Ice ◽  
Core Sets

AbstractSixty-three ice cores were collected in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas in August and September 1993 during a cruise of the R.V. Nathaniel B. Palmer. The structure and stable-isotopic composition (18O/16O) of the cores were investigated in order to understand the growth conditions and to identify the key growth processes, particularly the contribution of snow to sea-ice formation. The structure and isotopic composition of a set of 12 cores that was collected for the same purpose in the Bellingshausen Sea in March 1992 are reassessed. Frazil ice and congelation ice contribute 44% and 26%, respectively, to the composition of both the winter and summer ice-core sets, evidence that the relatively calm conditions that favour congelation-ice formation are neither as common nor as prolonged as the more turbulent conditions that favour frazil-ice growth and pancake-ice formation. Both frazil- and congelation-ice layers have an av erage thickness of 0.12 m in winter, evidence that congelation ice and pancake ice thicken primarily by dynamic processes. The thermodynamic development of the ice cover relies heavily on the formation of snow ice at the surface of floes after sea water has flooded the snow cover. Snow-ice layers have a mean thickness of 0.20 and 0.28 m in the winter and summer cores, respectively, and the contribution of snow ice to the winter (24%) and summer (16%) core sets exceeds most quantities that have been reported previously in other Antarctic pack-ice zones. The thickness and quantity of snow ice may be due to a combination of high snow-accumulation rates and snow loads, environmental conditions that favour a warm ice cover in which brine convection between the bottom and top of the ice introduces sea water to the snow/ice interface, and bottom melting losses being compensated by snow-ice formation. Layers of superimposed ice at the top of each of the summer cores make up 4.6% of the ice that was examined and they increase by a factor of 3 the quantity of snow entrained in the ice. The accumulation of superimposed ice is evidence that melting in the snow cover on Antarctic sea-ice floes ran reach an advanced stage and contribute a significant amount of snow to the total ice mass.

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