Surface heat budget of the Arctic Ocean

A summary is presented of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project, with a focus on the field experiment that was conducted from October 1997 to October 1998. The primary objective of the field work was to collect ocean, ice, and atmospheric datasets over a full annual cycle that could be used to understand the processes controlling surface heat exchanges—in particular, the ice-albedo feedback and cloud-radiation feedback. This information is being used to improve formulations of arctic ice-ocean-atmosphere processes in climate models and thereby improve simulations of present and future arctic climate. The experiment was deployed from an ice breaker that was frozen into the ice pack and allowed to drift for the duration of the experiment. This research platform allowed the use of an extensive suite of instruments that directly measured ocean, atmosphere, and ice properties from both the ship and the ice pack in the immediate vicinity of the ship. This summary describes the project goals, experimental design, instrumentation, and the resulting datasets. Examples of various data products available from the SHEBA project are presented.

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Author Uttal, Taneil
Curry, Judith
McPhee, Miles
Perovich, Donald
Moritz, Richard
Maslanik, James
Guest, Peter
Stern, Harry
Moore, James
Turenne, Rene
Heiberg, Andreas
Serreze, Mark
Wylie, Donald
Persson, Ola
Paulson, Clayton
Halle, Christopher
Morison, James
Wheeler, Patricia
Makshtas, Alexander
Welch, Harold
Shupe, Matthew
Intrieri, Janet
Stamnes, Knut
Lindsey, Ronald
Pinkel, Robert
Pegau, W.
Stanton, Timothy
Grenfeld, Thomas
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Library
Publication Date 2002-02-01T00:00:00
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Metadata Date 2023-08-18T18:12:45.812384
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.opensky::articles:17576
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Uttal, Taneil, Curry, Judith, McPhee, Miles, Perovich, Donald, Moritz, Richard, Maslanik, James, Guest, Peter, Stern, Harry, Moore, James, Turenne, Rene, Heiberg, Andreas, Serreze, Mark, Wylie, Donald, Persson, Ola, Paulson, Clayton, Halle, Christopher, Morison, James, Wheeler, Patricia, Makshtas, Alexander, Welch, Harold, Shupe, Matthew, Intrieri, Janet, Stamnes, Knut, Lindsey, Ronald, Pinkel, Robert, Pegau, W., Stanton, Timothy, Grenfeld, Thomas. (2002). Surface heat budget of the Arctic Ocean. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7dr2wtq. Accessed 30 June 2025.

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