Polar Research at UW Oceanography

Arctic oceanography and sea ice research at the University of Washington's School of Oceanography.

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List of publications, 1989-1998


  • Recent papers

  • The production of ice and dense shelf water in the Okhotsk Sea polynyas (Martin, Drucker and Yamashita, 1998)
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  • The effect of possible Taylor columns on the summer ice retreat in the Chukchi Sea (Martin and Drucker, 1997)
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  • Recent observations of a spring-summer surface warming over the Arctic Ocean (Martin, Munoz and Drucker, 1997)
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  • a laboratory study of the effect of frost flowers on C band radar backscatter from sea ice (Nghiem, Martin, Perovich, Kwok, Drucker and Gow, 1997)
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  • The temperature dependence of frost flower growth on laboratory sea ice and the effect of the flowers on infrared observations of the surface (Martin, Yu and Drucker, 1996)
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  • a simple model study of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance, 1979-1985 (Steele, Thomas, Rothrock and Martin, 1996)

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  • Assimilating satellite concentration data into an Arctic sea ice mass balance model, 1979-1985 (Thomas, Martin, Rothrock and Steele, 1996)

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  • Spatial and temporal observations of summer ice melt using ERS-1 SAR imagery (Holt and Martin, 1995)

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  • a laboratory study of frost flower growth on the surface of young sea ice (Martin, Drucker and Fort, 1995)
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  • The contribution of Alaskan, Siberian, and Canadian coastal polynyas to the cold halocline layer of the Arctic Ocean (Cavalieri & Martin, 1994)

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  • The effect of severe storms on the ice cover of the northern Tatarskiy Strait (Martin, Munoz and Drucker, 1992)

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  • Observations of short-period ice floe accelerations during Leg II of the Polarbjorn drift (Martin & Drucker, 1991)

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  • Satellite observations of the ice cover of the Kuril Basin region of the Okhotsk Sea and its relation to the regional oceanography (Wakatsuchi & Martin, 1990)

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  • Contributions of the Siberian Shelf polynyas to the Arctic Ocean intermediate and deep water (Cavalieri & Martin, 1989)

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