Author(s): Aleksey Marchenko; Anton Kulyakhtin; Kenneth Eik
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Abstract: Ice conditions in the North-West Barents Sea are described and analysed using field data collected in annual cruise of RV Lance in the beginning of May 2009. During the cruise Iridium Ice Tracker was installed on drifting iceberg to monitor its motion. Synchronous measurements of sea current velocities were carried out from the drifting ice on the distance about 10 km from the iceberg when the ship was moored to the ice and drifted together with the ice. Collected data are used for the modelling of the ice and iceberg drift. The resistance of surrounding ice to the iceberg motion is discussed. Results of the modelling are compared with the collected data of the Ice Tracker and GPS positions of RV Lance moored to the ice.
Year: 2010