ICE FORECASTING TECHNIQUES FOR THE ARCTIC SEAS

Contents: Method for calculating the distribution of ice thickness in the Arctic Seas during the Winter period; Methods of long-term hydrometeorological forecasts for the Arctic; Utilization of the numerical method of calculation for the prognosis of autumn-winter ice conditions in the Arctic Seas; Peculiarities of ice formation in the Arctic Seas; On the close relationship between the mean monthly air temperature of Polar stations in the region of Franz Josef Land; On the importance of planetary force in the changes in the ice cover of the Arctic Seas; On the importance of using characteristics of Atlantic waters as a forecasting factor; On the stability of ten-day temperatures in the Eastern Arctic; A method of calculation of ice conditions (on the example of the Laptev Sea).

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Trans. from Glavnoe upravlenie gidrometeorologicheskoi sluzhby (USSR) n292 1950. Sponsored in part by National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Special Foreign Currency Science Information Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Science Foundation

  Division of Polar Programs, 1800 G Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20550
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Pagination: 236 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Ice; Ice by location; Thickness; Weather forecasting
• Candidate Terms: Ice forecasting
• Geographic Terms: Arctic Regions
• Old TRIS Terms: Ice distribution; Ice reporting; Ice thickness
• Subject Areas: Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147888
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TT-75-52077
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM