The importance of the sea ice marginal zone for the surface turbulent heat fluxes in Arctic on the basis of NCEP CFSR reanalysisстатья
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Аннотация:This paper provides the analysis of the role of the marginal ice zone into the air-seainteraction processes over the Arctic during the period 1979–2010 on the basis ofNCEP CFSR reanalysis data. One of the major conclusion of this study is thefact that widely used boundary of the interacting with the ocean atmosphere andthermally isolated atmosphere from the ocean of 15% for the sea ice concentrationis not optimal for studies of the air-sea interaction processes. We demonstratedthat significant amount of the surface turbulent heat flux is transferred from theocean to the atmosphere through the areas with sea ice concentrations higher than15%, while this sea ice concentration criteria is widely used as a boundary of theice-covered and ice-free ocean. We also show that the spatial pattern of the response ofturbulent heat flux to sea ice variability is observed over the Barents and Bering Seasduring a cold season and over the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during a warm season.