Early Student Support for the Study of Inertial Motions in the Arctic Ocean

: The decreasing trend in minimum Arctic Ocean sea-ice extent has been a topic of concern with far reaching effects. At least seasonally, there are good reasons to believe that the Arctic Ocean will become more dynamically active, with larger surface waves, stronger lateral fronts, and more intense internal wave activity. Particularly in the marginal ice zone, the processes controlling the response of the ocean to wind forcing span a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. In this project, we use a combination of data from existing instruments and simple theoretical models to study the internal wave field in the Western Arctic Ocean; to determine temporal variations and temporal variations in wave energy and investigate feedback processes between propagating internal waves and ocean stratification.