Beaufort Sea Ice Motion Programme - Mesoscale Flow Features Study

Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region

Tags: physical sciences, oceanography, oceanic currents, ice drift

Principal Investigator: Melling, Humfrey (16)
Licence Number: 8029
Organization: Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Issued: Jan 01, 1988

Objective(s): To deploy 11 drifting buoys to improve description of oceanic flow variations on scales of 5-50 km over the Mackenzie shelf of the southern Beaufort Sea; to investigate the relationship between such variations, seafloor topography and shelf water baroclinicity; to estimate the uncertainty which such fluctuations introduce into deterministic models of pack-ice drift