Field Bite: Arctic Ocean
Virtual field trip to the edge of the Arctic Ice Sheet at the summer solstice, 2022. Includes photos, animations, and explanations of the shrinking Arctic Ice Sheet, types of sea ice, how sea ice forms, what it's made of, and how it differs from glaciers and icebergs, and the impacts both locally in Svalbard as well as globally.
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Produced by Katryn Wiese
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-Attribution-SA 4.0
All media produced by Katryn Wiese unless indicated below:
*Intro and exit music: used with permission © Alexis Harte
*Satellite maps: Google Earth with data from SIO, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO, USGS and Landsat/Copernicus IBCAO
*Sea ice over time -- charts and animations – NOAA, NSDIC, and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.
*Surface view map of Arctic Ocean Currents – © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, J. Cook.
*Clean Up Svalbard Logo – Governor of Svalbard
*Reflectivity of ice, land, and ocean – NASA/NSIDC
*Arctic temperature anomalies 2021 – NOAA
*Arctic Ocean Productivity – NOAA Arctic Report Card
*Main ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean, including Atlantic Water (red), Pacific Water (pink/blue) and surface water (blue) [Credit: Fig. 3 of Carmack et al., 2015; © American Meteorological Society.
*Brine in sea ice – Weeks and Assur, 1969
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