63-755 Meereis im Klimasystem - Sea ice in the climate system

Lecture and exercises by Prof. Dr. Lars Kaleschke

• Wednesday 11:00-12:30
• Bundesstraße 53, 133

MSc Oceanography, Geophysics, Meteorology, ICSS

Wintersemester

Preliminary planning:

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

• Sea ice phase diagram and composition

• 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

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

• 6 January 2015 14:00 Excursion to the ice laboratories of the Hamburg Ship Model Basin HSVA

• 7 January 2015 preparation for exam: Key facts for exam Group A.pdf Group B.pdf (not necessarily correct or appropriate!)

• 14 January 2015 Exam (Grindelberg 5)
• 14 January 2015 13:30 Seminar Juliane Müller, High-resolution record of late glacial and deglacial sea ice changes in Fram Strait corroborates ice–ocean interactions during abrupt climate shifts

(Slides will be updated from last years course)

• Example solutions of exercises

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

• Jérôme Weiss, Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice - A Perspective Across Scales, SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences 2013

• 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

• AWI Meereisportal

• Arctic Sea Ice Blog

• ARD Mittagsmagazin, 22. April 2014; Routenplaner: Mit dem Eis-Navi durch die Arktis

• Norwegian Young sea ICE cruise (N-ICE2015)