In this specific lesson, Tim Stanton discusses the role of ocean stratification in controlling the way heat interacts with sea ice in the Arctic.
This video is part of a collection called “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic,” offered through the online course platform Coursera, about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean, where it will drift for 13 months (mosaic-expedition.org).
Tim Stanton has studied a range of ocean turbulence problems including coastal bottom boundary layers, internal waves and solitons, mixed layer dynamics, and ocean-ice boundary layer interactions. He has current funded projects including participation in the Office of Naval Research Stratified Ocean Dynamics in the Arctic (SODA) project with an ice breaker deployment of 3 Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys in the Beaufort Sea in the fall of 2018, and the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) manned drifting ice camp in 2019.
Visit this page to access the “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” Coursera.
In this course, you’ll hear directly from more than three dozen MOSAiC scientists and Arctic experts as they summarize the core of their research, what types of data they collect during MOSAiC on the ice, under the sea, and in the air and describe why this expedition is so key for increasing our understanding of the Arctic and global climate systems.
