Estimating surface wind direction over drifting open pack ice Journal Articles

abstract

• Surface wind direction data, vital for the study of drifting pack ice, are not routinely available for polar oceans. These data may be estimated from the difference between the direction of motion of detached ice floes, as determined from sequential satellite images, and the angle of sea ice deflection, which varies with the geostrophic wind speed.

authors

• Feldman, Uri
• Howarth, Philip J
• Davies, John Arthur

status

• published 

publication date

• September 20, 1981

has subject area

• Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences (Science Metrix)

published in

• Journal of Geophysical Research  Journal

keywords

• Oceanography
• Physical Sciences
• Science & Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1029/jc086ic09p08117

start page

• 8117

end page

• 8120

volume

• 86

issue

• C9