Laboratoires/Partenaire

LOPS

Financeur du programme

programme international
ANR

Résumé

 The Arctic system, as a whole, is in transition. Interactions between mesoscale eddies and sea ice could potentially represent an important mechanism, via which the ocean contributes to the on-going and future sea ice retreat.

Objectifs

The goal of ImMEDIAT is twofold: 1) thanks to a innovative method using satellite sea ice observations complemented with results from realistic simulations run at very high resolution, we will quantify the mesoscale activity in the ice-covered Arctic, and determine if it fundamentally differs from the other oceans, and 2) based on idealized and realistic models, we will investigate the interplay between eddies and sea ice.

Commentaire Général

Oceanographie physique, glace de mer