Helicopter operations in the Arctic Ocean
We have been using the helicopter tours to collect video data on the melt pond coverage; this is important as the more melt ponds there are, the more of the sun’s energy the ocean absorbs. The white ice reflects heat into space but for a long time climate models assumed that all of the ice was reflective. Now the ponds are being included but we need to work out just how much of the Arctic is covered by them and how they are evolving through the season.
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