Observations of sea ice and icebergs in the western Barents Sea during the winter of 1987
- Norwegian Inst. of Tech., Trondheim (Norway)
- SINTEF Norwegian Hydrotechnical Lab., Trondheim (Norway)
A multisensor ice data acquisition program for the western Barents Sea was carried out during three field campaigns in the mid winter and fall of 1987. The main purpose of the program was to obtain comprehensive information about the ice in the area at that time. The reasoning was that prior to any oil/gas exploration and production in the Barents Sea, the physical environment has to be quantitatively surveyed in order to ensure safe operations related to human safety, the regular operability and safety of the structure and protection of the environment. Prior to this field investigation program in 1987 data on sea ice and icebergs for engineering purposes for the western Barents Sea were meager. The present paper highlights some of the findings with emphasis on ice edge speeds, ice edge displacement and ice drift. For icebergs, the paper focuses on population, size distributions and geometric parameters.
- OSTI ID:
- 237970
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950604-; ISBN 1-880653-18-4; TRN: IM9625%%295
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international conference on offshore and polar engineering, The Hague (Netherlands), 11-15 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the fifth (1995) international offshore and polar engineering conference. Volume 2; Chung, J.S. [ed.] [Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)]; Sayed, M. [ed.] [National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)]; Gresnigt, A.M. [ed.] [Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)]; PB: 580 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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