DocumentCode
2944780
Title
Winter MIZEX 87, Operations Overview
Author
Horn, Dean A.
Author_Institution
MIZEX, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, USA
fYear
1987
fDate
Sept. 28 1987-Oct. 1 1987
Firstpage
76
Lastpage
82
Abstract
MIZEX (Marginal Ice Zone Experiment), a multinational, interdisciplinary study of the Arctic environment, has the overall goal to better understand the mesoscale interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere at the polar margin. Winter MIZEX is the natural extension of the successful 1983-84 Summer programs and this paper presents an overview of the MIZEX 87 operations, March 19 to April 13, 1987. Principal scientific areas studied were: oceanography, meteorology, remote sensing, ice and waves, acoustics, and biology. Operations benefitted greatly from SAR imagery, downlinked daily, in near real-time, directly from SAR aircraft to POLAR CIRCLE. Preliminary reviews of just part of all the data acquired during MIZEX 87, indicate that knowledge of the Arctic enviorment will expand significantly when all the data are evaluated.
Keywords
Atmospheric waves; Ferroelectric films; Ice surface; Marine vehicles; Meteorology; Nonvolatile memory; Random access memory; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Surface acoustic waves;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
OCEANS '87
Conference_Location
Halifax, NS, Canada
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OCEANS.1987.1160902
Filename
1160902
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