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Radiation budget of Arctic sea ice during CHINARE2010 -expedition

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dc.date.accessioned 2014-02-24T13:35:29Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:04:46Z
dc.date.available 2014-02-24T13:35:29Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:04:46Z
dc.date.issued 2014-02-24T13:35:29Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/3518 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/3518
dc.title Radiation budget of Arctic sea ice during CHINARE2010 -expedition en
ethesis.discipline Geophysics en
ethesis.discipline Geofysiikka fi
ethesis.discipline Geofysik sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/78d0aee1-1bfd-4870-8ae9-41c2a3d12339
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/3acb09b1-e6a2-4faa-b677-1a1b03285b66
ethesis.department Institutionen för fysik sv
ethesis.department Department of Physics en
ethesis.department Fysiikan laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Matero, Ilkka Seppo Olavi
dct.issued 2014
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract In this thesis I study the radiation balance and heat budget of a multiyear sea ice floe drifting in the central Arctic ocean. The objectives of the study were to quantify the vertical partitioning of shortwave- and longwave radiation and to quantify the different components of the heat budget of the floe in question, both inside and at its interfaces. The measurements were set up at 88 26.6N, 176 59.88W on 8th of August and carried out for ten days. The measurements were made as a part of the fourth Chinese National Arctic Expedition CHINARE2010. The measurement setup consisted of a net radiometer, four PAR-sensors, a pyrano-albedometer, three spectral radiometers, daily snow pit measurements, weather observations and six ice corings. With the data from these studies I was able to quantify the rate of melting and fluxes of heat both at the surface and at the bottom of the ice. The data allowed for examining the fraction of transmitted and conducted heat but were insufficient for properly quantifying the internal changes and spectral composition of the shortwave radiation at different depths. The surface was observed to be losing heat mainly in the longwave part of the spectrum. The average net radiation on top of the ice on wavelengths between 200 nanometers and 100 micrometers over the period was -25.0 Watts per square meter. The heat fluxes of the shortwave and longwave radiations were of opposite directions and the negative heat flux of the longwave radiation dominated until a distinct change in the radiative conditions on 17th of August. For the remainder of the period these heat fluxes nearly balanced each other and the average net radiation was -2.1 Watts per square meter. The latent and sensible heat fluxes were observed to have a minor role in the surface heat budget with averages of -1.5 Watts per square meter and -0.03 Watts per square meter respectively. The ice was observed to melt primarily at the bottom at a rate of 0.5 cm per day driven by the input of heat from the underlying ocean. Melting at the surface was not apparent until before the last two days of studies, when the upper layer of the snow cover melted. The changes in sea ice and snow cover were visually observed to exhibit significant spatial variability even on a single floe. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112252422
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