Dynamic and thermodynamic effects of an active, multi-phase interfacial layer on boundary-layer interactions.
We are focused on understanding how sea ice interacts with the upper ocean, which is particularly complicated when there is a thick accumulation of platelet ice crystals between the two. Working out of a remote camp on the sea ice, we will drive to several sites, drill holes through the sea ice and then lower instruments through into the ocean. We will come away with a far greater appreciation of how melt from the nearby Ross Ice Shelf affects the sea ice of southern McMurdo Sound.
