Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean

A summary is presented of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project, with a focus on the field experiment that was conducted from October 1997 to October 1998. The primary objective of the field work was to collectocean, ice, and atmospheric datasets over a full annual cycle that c...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2002-02, Vol.83 (2), p.255-276
Main Authors: Uttal, Taneil, Curry, Judith A., McPhee, Miles G., Perovich, Donald K., Moritz, Richard E., Maslanik, James A., Guest, Peter S., Stern, Harry L., Moore, James A., Turenne, Rene, Heiberg, Andreas, Serreze, Mark. C., Wylie, Donald P., Persson, Ola G., Paulson, Clayton A., Halle, Christopher, Morison, James H., Wheeler, Patricia A., Makshtas, Alexander, Welch, Harold, Shupe, Matthew D., Intrieri, Janet M., Stamnes, Knut, Lindsey, Ronald W., Pinkel, Robert, Pegau, W. Scott, Stanton, Timothy P., Grenfeld, Thomas C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropogenic factors
Atmospherics
Climate models
Clouds
Earth, ocean, space
Exact sciences and technology
External geophysics
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Heat budget
Ice
Icebergs
Marine
Meteorology
Ocean temperature
Oceanography
Oceans
Physics of the oceans
Salinity
Sea ice
Snow. Ice. Glaciers
Surface temperature
Wind velocity
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Summary:A summary is presented of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project, with a focus on the field experiment that was conducted from October 1997 to October 1998. The primary objective of the field work was to collectocean, ice, and atmospheric datasets over a full annual cycle that could be used to understand the processes controlling surface heat exchanges—in particular, the ice-albedo feedback and cloud-radiation feedback. This information is being used to improve formulations of arctic ice-ocean-atmosphere processes in climate models and thereby improve simulations of present and future arctic climate. The experiment was deployed from an ice breaker that was frozen into the ice packand allowed to drift for the duration of the experiment. This research platform allowed the use of an extensive suite of instruments that directly measured ocean, atmosphere, and ice properties from both the ship and the ice pack in the immediate vicinity of the ship. This summary describes the project goals, experimental design, instrumentation, and the resulting datasets. Examples of various data products available from the SHEBA project are presented.
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/1520-0477(2002)083<0255:SHBOTA>2.3.CO;2