IPY: Toward developing an Arctic Observing Network: An array of surface buoys to sample turbulent ocean heat and salt fluxes during the IPY

海军研究生院提供的资金用于部署一个扩大的、自主的、基于冰的网络，用于观测海洋上边界层的湍流通量，并与其他研究人员合作，用于量化北极多个地点多年漂移的海冰热力学平衡。这些观测将在国际极地年期间为北极观测网作出贡献。特别是，这些观测将有助于记录上层海洋在储存热量和融化海冰方面作用的区域变率，记录海洋到冰的热通量如何受到北极盐跃层结构和热含量的影响，了解所涉及的强迫机制，以及测试和改进用于大尺度模式的海洋到冰的热通量参数化。

Stanton 0632041Naval Post-Graduate SchoolFunds are provided for the deployment of an expanded autonomous, ice-based, network for observing turbulent fluxes in the upper boundary layer of the ocean and, in collaboration with other investigators, for quantifying the thermodynamic balance of sea ice over multi-year drifts at multiple locations in the Arctic. These observations will contribute to the Arctic Observation Network during the International Polar Year. In particular, these observations will allow documentation of the regional variability in the role of the upper ocean in storing heat and melting sea ice, documentation of how ocean-to-ice heat fluxes are affected by the structure and heat content of the Artic halocline, understanding of the forcing mechanisms involved, and testing and improvement of ocean-to-ice flux parameterizations for use in large scale models.