Arctic sea-ice motion and its relation to pressure field |
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| Authors: | Yunhe Zhao Antony K Liu |
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| Institution: | (1) Caelum Research Corporation, Rockville, MD, 20850, U.S.A.;(2) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Daily Arctic sea-ice motion maps during the winter seasons (December–March) from December 1988 to March 2003 derived from
NSCAT, QuikSCAT, SSM/I, and AMSRE data by a wavelet analysis method have been merged with those derived from buoy data. These
merged sea-ice motion data have been used to study the circulation regimes and winter-to-winter variability of Arctic sea-ice
motion. The relation between sea-ice motion and the pressure field in the Arctic Ocean was also studied by applying Principal
Component Analysis (PCA) to the monthly merged sea-ice motion data and the monthly pressure field data from IABP. The mean
Arctic sea-ice motion map of the 15 winter seasons has two distinct features: the Beaufort Gyre and a cyclonic circulation
system in the Eurasian Basin, which moves ice from the Laptev Sea to Fram Strait. The strengths and sizes of the two features
change from one winter season to another. Seasons with a strong or normal Beaufort Gyre alternate with seasons with a weak
or no Beaufort Gyre every one to three seasons. The principal components of the first two modes of PCA of the monthly sea-ice
motion are closely correlated with their counterparts of the monthly pressure field in the Arctic Ocean. The mode-one components
of these two anomalies alternate between anticyclonic and cyclonic circulation systems. The correlation between Arctic Oscillation
indexes and the principal components of the first mode of PCA of the monthly Arctic sea-ice motion is low but statistically
significant. |
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| Keywords: | Arctic sea-ice motion wavelet analysis multi-sensor approach satellite data buoy data circulation regimes winter-to-winter variability relations to the pressure field and the arctic oscillation indexes |
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