Meeting Abstracts
Dispersion and fluxes during the POLEWARD experiment
Joe LaCasce, Inga Koszalka, Pal Erik Isachsen, Kjell Arild Orvik, Maria Andersson, Cecilie Mauritzen
University of Oslo
(Abstract received 05/14/2012 for session D)
ABSTRACT
The POLEWARD experiment was the largest surface drifter experiment to
date in the Nordic Seas, with 150 instruments deployed from
2007-2009. The drifters were mostly deployed in triplets, to facilitate
dispersion calculations. A number of analysis techniques were used
and/or developed to study the trajectories. These include relative
displacement and transit time PDFs, averaging using a clustering
algorithm and the extraction of heat fluxes. I'll give an overview of
the experiment and the various results we've obtained.