Although several countries dispose of their radioactive waste in the world's oceans, recent revelations by the former Soviet Union concerning disposal of radioactive waste in the shallow water of the Kara Sea have created widespread environmental concern. The Yablokov Report or the White Book is the official Russian documentation of source locations, the time of dumping and the amounts and types of radioactive materials that ...
The Polar Ice Prediction System (PIPS) is an operational numerical model used for the daily prediction of ice drift and ice growth/decay in the Arctic. PIPS has as its basis the Hibler ice model and is driven by atmospheric forcing, geostrophic ocean currents and deep oceanic heat fluxes. The model is initialized once per week by the Naval Polar Oceanography Center's (NPOC) analysis of ice concentration. The existing method of ...
Atmospheric forcing from the Naval Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System has been to drive the U.S. Navy's operational ice models, the Polar Ice Prediction System and the Regional Polar Ice Prediction System- Barents. Unlike many ocean circulation models which depend mainly on wind forcing, ice models are dependent on winds as well as atmospheric heating/ cooling (fluxes, air temperatures and solar radiation). Comparisons of the ice model results with observations ...
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