Sea ice in the climate system

Lecture and exercises by Prof. Dr. Lars Kaleschke

• Wednesday 11:00-12:30
• Grindelberg 5, Room 008

Wintersemester

• Vocabulary (nomenclature, technical terms, sea ice zones)

• Sea ice phase diagram and composition

• Sea ice mechanics and The Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX)

• 11. November Excursion to the ice laboratories of the Hamburg Ship Model Basin HSVA

• Sea ice growth

• Surface heat balance

• Interaction with the atmosphere - Polynyas

• Interaction with the ocean

• Interaction with the ocean and the atmosphere - Sea ice drift

• Sea ice remote sensing

• 8 January 2014 preparation for exam: Key facts for exam Group A.pdf Group B.pdf (not necessarily correct or appropriate!)

• 15 January 2014 Exam

• Excursion to the ice laboratories of the Hamburg Ship Model Basin HSVA (date to be defined)

(Slides will be updated from last years course)

Literature:

• Thomas, Dieckmann, Sea Ice, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Serreze, M.C. and R.G. Barry, The Arctic Climate System, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Matti Lepparanta, The Drift Of Sea Ice, Springer, 2010
• Hajo Eicken et al., Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research, University of Alaska Press, 2010
• The geophysics of sea ice ed. by Norbert Untersteiner ZMAW GLAC GEO

• Physics of ice-covered seas : lecture notes from a summer school in Savonlinna, Finland 6 - 17 June 1994 / Matti Leppäranta (ed.) ZMAW GLAC Phy I & II

• The mass balance of the cryosphere : observations and modelling of contemporary and future changes / ed. by Jonathan L. Bamber and Antony J. Payne ZMAW GLAC MAS
• Polar remote sensing / Dan Lubin and Robert Massom
• Remote sensing of sea ice in the Northern Sea route : studies and applications / Ola M. Johannessen

• Carsey, Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice, AGU 1992

Links:

• Video Animation of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Cover Jan 2005-Sept 2010