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, room 133, 023

MSc Oceanography, Geophysics, Meteorology, ICSS

Wintersemester

Preliminary planning:

• Introduction

• Feedbacks and interactions overview, sea ice types

• Snow on sea ice

• Sea ice growth

• Surface heat balance

• Polynyas

• Interaction with the ocean

• Sea ice drift

• Sea ice remote sensing

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

• 11 January 2017 preparation for exam: Key facts for exam Zusammenfassung_SeaIce.pdf Factsheet.zip (not necessarily correct or appropriate! You are allowed to use two double-sided handwritten A4 pages!)

• 18 January 2017 Exam

(Slides will be updated from last years course)

• Example solutions of exercises

Literature:

• Thomas, Dieckmann, Sea Ice, Wiley-Blackwell, Second Edition 2010

• 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)