Peter Wadhams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5592079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Wadhams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Wadhams |
| SIGNATURE | WADHAMS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3811-5650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Winter-to-summer transition of Arctic sea ice breakup and floe size distribution in the Beaufort Sea
Breakup of the near-continuous winter sea ice into discrete summer ice floes is an important transition that dictates the evolution and fate of the marginal ice zone (MIZ) of the Arctic Ocean. During the winter of 2014, more than 50 autonomous drifting buoys were deployed in four separate clusters on the sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, as part of the Office of Naval Research MIZ program. These systems measured the ocean-ice-atmosphere properties at …
Robust wavebuoys for the marginal ice zone
An array of novel directional wavebuoys was designed and deployed into the Beaufort Sea ice cover in March 2014, as part of the Office of Naval Research Marginal Ice Zone experiment. The buoys were designed to drift with the ice throughout the year and monitor the expected breakup and retreat of the ice cover, forced by waves travelling into the ice from open water. Buoys were deployed from fast-and-light air-supported ice camps, based out of Sac…
Oil spill response capabilities and technologies for ice-covered Arctic marine waters
Renewed political and commercial interest in the resources of the Arctic, the reduction in the extent and thickness of sea ice, and the recent failings that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have prompted industry and its regulatory agencies, governments, local communities and NGOs to look at all aspects of Arctic oil spill countermeasures with fresh eyes. This paper provides an overview of present oil spill response capabilities and techno…
Arctic Ice Cover, Ice Thickness and Tipping Points
Late-Holocene North Atlantic climate ‘seesaws’, storminess changes and Greenland ice sheet (Gisp2) palaeoclimates
The oxygen-isotope record of palaeotemperature from Greenland ice cores has for many years been the kingpin of climate reconstructions for the North Atlantic region and northern Europe. An air temperature ‘seesaw’ between Greenland and northern Europe, first described in AD 1765, is also well known and is related to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Whereas the NAO index series is based on instrumental records of air pressure, the North Atlan…
Complex North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index signal of historic North Atlantic storm-track changes
Previous reports have suggested a link between increased storminess in the North Atlantic during recent years with a period of time during which the North Atlantic Oscillation Index has been strongly positive. New analyses of late nineteenth-century gale-day data for meteorological stations in northern Scotland and western Ireland indicate that the relatively high storminess that characterized this period was associated with monthly NAO Index val…
Obituaries
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SPRI participation in the Winter Weddell Gyre Study 1989
The Winter Weddell Gyre Study was conducted by an international group of scientists, including members of the Scott Polar Research Institute, from FS Polarstern (FRG) in September and October 1989, in collaboration with RV Akademk Federov (USSR). This was a multi-disciplinary experiment involving biologists, chemists, oceanographers and meteorologists. The SPRI involvement centred on sea-ice research, involving both our own experiments and a prog…
The Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (Mizex) 1984
The Sea Ice Group of the Scort Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, took part in the international Marginal Ice Zone Experiment 1984 (MIZEX 84) from 12 June to 26 July, operating from icebreaker FS Polarstern and chartered sealing vessel Kvitbjørn in the Greenland Sea. Observations included measurement of ice edge kinetics, wave-ice interactions and upper ocean structure and processes; ocean surface measurements and pressure ridge p…
The Sea Ice Topography of M'Clure Strait in Winter and Summer of 1960 from Submarine Profiles
Submarine profiles of the ice underside in M'Clure Strait were obtained by USS Sargo in February 1960 and by USS Seadragon in August 1960. They gave the first quantitative measurements of the ice draft distribution in the strait and in the nearby Beaufort Sea shelf zone, as well as providing a seasonal comparison of ice conditions within a single year. Analysis of the profiles reveals a region of very high mean ice draft (7.8 m) and heavy ridging…
Field experiments on Antarctic tabular icebergs
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Field experiments on wave-ice interaction in the Bering Sea and Greenland waters, 1979
Three field experiments in widely separated parts of the Arctic were carried out during 1979 to complete a study of the interaction between ocean waves and sea ice in the marginal ice zone. The aim of the project is to determine the distribution of floe sizes that is generated by a given incident wave field, and this requires measurements of wave decay, of the bending and body responses of floes, and of the strain necessary to cause fracture. The…
Thick Sea-ice Floes
This paper examines how sea ice floes of thickness exceeding 6 m can be formed in the Arctic. Such floes have been observed by a Soviet drifting station, by a submarine at the North Pole, and at three sites in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Maykut and Untersteiner model of sea ice growth predicts an equilibrium thickness of 3 m under normal conditions, but if the oceanic heat flux is set to zero and the annual snowfall is increased to 1 m g…
Field experiments on wave-ice interaction in the Labrador and east Greenland currents, 1978
Two field experiments took place in 1978 as part of a project to study ocean wave attenuation in the marginal pack ice zone and the effect of ocean waves on floe break-up and ice dynamics. The main partners in the project are the Scott Polar Research Institute and the Electromagnetics Institute, Technical University of Denmark (TUD), Lyngby, with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Washington DC, and the Danish government. The first …
A British submarine expedition to the North Pole, 1976
In October 1976 HM nuclear submarine Sovereign was sent into the Arctic Ocean on a voyage to the North Pole. This was the second Royal Naval submarine deployment in the Arctic Ocean, the first being the voyage of the Dreadnought in 1971. Sovereign was accompanied by HM submarine Narwhal as far as 80°N, and within the Arctic Basin the submarine's track was flown over by a Canadian Argus maritime patrol aircraft. The Scott Polar Research Institute …
Oil and Ice in the Beaufort Sea
As the world's oil resources dwindle, the search for new supplies is touching regions of the globe previously considered too hostile for any kind of sustained operation. The ice-infested coastal waters of eastern and northern Canada are one such region. Already rigs have been at work off Newfoundland and Labrador where there is a long ice-free season and where drifting icebergs are the chief danger. Wells have been drilled on land in the Arctic i…
Soviet research vessel Professor Zubov
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Hudson-70” Canadian Oceanography Expedition, 1969–70
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British submarine work in the Arctic, 1971
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International Sea Ice Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland 1971
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Late-Holocene North Atlantic climate ‘seesaws’, storminess changes and Greenland ice sheet (Gisp2) palaeoclimates
The oxygen-isotope record of palaeotemperature from Greenland ice cores has for many years been the kingpin of climate reconstructions for the North Atlantic region and northern Europe. An air temperature ‘seesaw’ between Greenland and northern Europe, first described in AD 1765, is also well known and is related to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Whereas the NAO index series is based on instrumental records of air pressure, the North Atlan…
Arctic Ice Cover, Ice Thickness and Tipping Points
Complex North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index signal of historic North Atlantic storm-track changes
Previous reports have suggested a link between increased storminess in the North Atlantic during recent years with a period of time during which the North Atlantic Oscillation Index has been strongly positive. New analyses of late nineteenth-century gale-day data for meteorological stations in northern Scotland and western Ireland indicate that the relatively high storminess that characterized this period was associated with monthly NAO Index val…
The Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (Mizex) 1984
The Sea Ice Group of the Scort Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, took part in the international Marginal Ice Zone Experiment 1984 (MIZEX 84) from 12 June to 26 July, operating from icebreaker FS Polarstern and chartered sealing vessel Kvitbjørn in the Greenland Sea. Observations included measurement of ice edge kinetics, wave-ice interactions and upper ocean structure and processes; ocean surface measurements and pressure ridge p…
Field experiments on wave-ice interaction in the Labrador and east Greenland currents, 1978
Two field experiments took place in 1978 as part of a project to study ocean wave attenuation in the marginal pack ice zone and the effect of ocean waves on floe break-up and ice dynamics. The main partners in the project are the Scott Polar Research Institute and the Electromagnetics Institute, Technical University of Denmark (TUD), Lyngby, with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Washington DC, and the Danish government. The first …
Oil and Ice in the Beaufort Sea
As the world's oil resources dwindle, the search for new supplies is touching regions of the globe previously considered too hostile for any kind of sustained operation. The ice-infested coastal waters of eastern and northern Canada are one such region. Already rigs have been at work off Newfoundland and Labrador where there is a long ice-free season and where drifting icebergs are the chief danger. Wells have been drilled on land in the Arctic i…
Hudson-70” Canadian Oceanography Expedition, 1969–70
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Hudson-70” Canadian Oceanography Expedition, 1969–70
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British submarine work in the Arctic, 1971
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International Sea Ice Conference, Reykjavík, Iceland 1971
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Soviet research vessel Professor Zubov
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Oil and Ice in the Beaufort Sea
As the world's oil resources dwindle, the search for new supplies is touching regions of the globe previously considered too hostile for any kind of sustained operation. The ice-infested coastal waters of eastern and northern Canada are one such region. Already rigs have been at work off Newfoundland and Labrador where there is a long ice-free season and where drifting icebergs are the chief danger. Wells have been drilled on land in the Arctic i…
A British submarine expedition to the North Pole, 1976
In October 1976 HM nuclear submarine Sovereign was sent into the Arctic Ocean on a voyage to the North Pole. This was the second Royal Naval submarine deployment in the Arctic Ocean, the first being the voyage of the Dreadnought in 1971. Sovereign was accompanied by HM submarine Narwhal as far as 80°N, and within the Arctic Basin the submarine's track was flown over by a Canadian Argus maritime patrol aircraft. The Scott Polar Research Institute …
Thick Sea-ice Floes
This paper examines how sea ice floes of thickness exceeding 6 m can be formed in the Arctic. Such floes have been observed by a Soviet drifting station, by a submarine at the North Pole, and at three sites in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Maykut and Untersteiner model of sea ice growth predicts an equilibrium thickness of 3 m under normal conditions, but if the oceanic heat flux is set to zero and the annual snowfall is increased to 1 m g…
Field experiments on wave-ice interaction in the Labrador and east Greenland currents, 1978
Two field experiments took place in 1978 as part of a project to study ocean wave attenuation in the marginal pack ice zone and the effect of ocean waves on floe break-up and ice dynamics. The main partners in the project are the Scott Polar Research Institute and the Electromagnetics Institute, Technical University of Denmark (TUD), Lyngby, with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Washington DC, and the Danish government. The first …
Field experiments on wave-ice interaction in the Bering Sea and Greenland waters, 1979
Three field experiments in widely separated parts of the Arctic were carried out during 1979 to complete a study of the interaction between ocean waves and sea ice in the marginal ice zone. The aim of the project is to determine the distribution of floe sizes that is generated by a given incident wave field, and this requires measurements of wave decay, of the bending and body responses of floes, and of the strain necessary to cause fracture. The…
Field experiments on Antarctic tabular icebergs
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Sea Ice Topography of M'Clure Strait in Winter and Summer of 1960 from Submarine Profiles
Submarine profiles of the ice underside in M'Clure Strait were obtained by USS Sargo in February 1960 and by USS Seadragon in August 1960. They gave the first quantitative measurements of the ice draft distribution in the strait and in the nearby Beaufort Sea shelf zone, as well as providing a seasonal comparison of ice conditions within a single year. Analysis of the profiles reveals a region of very high mean ice draft (7.8 m) and heavy ridging…
The Marginal Ice Zone Experiment (Mizex) 1984
The Sea Ice Group of the Scort Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, took part in the international Marginal Ice Zone Experiment 1984 (MIZEX 84) from 12 June to 26 July, operating from icebreaker FS Polarstern and chartered sealing vessel Kvitbjørn in the Greenland Sea. Observations included measurement of ice edge kinetics, wave-ice interactions and upper ocean structure and processes; ocean surface measurements and pressure ridge p…
SPRI participation in the Winter Weddell Gyre Study 1989
The Winter Weddell Gyre Study was conducted by an international group of scientists, including members of the Scott Polar Research Institute, from FS Polarstern (FRG) in September and October 1989, in collaboration with RV Akademk Federov (USSR). This was a multi-disciplinary experiment involving biologists, chemists, oceanographers and meteorologists. The SPRI involvement centred on sea-ice research, involving both our own experiments and a prog…
Obituaries
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Complex North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index signal of historic North Atlantic storm-track changes
Previous reports have suggested a link between increased storminess in the North Atlantic during recent years with a period of time during which the North Atlantic Oscillation Index has been strongly positive. New analyses of late nineteenth-century gale-day data for meteorological stations in northern Scotland and western Ireland indicate that the relatively high storminess that characterized this period was associated with monthly NAO Index val…
Late-Holocene North Atlantic climate ‘seesaws’, storminess changes and Greenland ice sheet (Gisp2) palaeoclimates
The oxygen-isotope record of palaeotemperature from Greenland ice cores has for many years been the kingpin of climate reconstructions for the North Atlantic region and northern Europe. An air temperature ‘seesaw’ between Greenland and northern Europe, first described in AD 1765, is also well known and is related to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Whereas the NAO index series is based on instrumental records of air pressure, the North Atlan…
Arctic Ice Cover, Ice Thickness and Tipping Points
Winter-to-summer transition of Arctic sea ice breakup and floe size distribution in the Beaufort Sea
Breakup of the near-continuous winter sea ice into discrete summer ice floes is an important transition that dictates the evolution and fate of the marginal ice zone (MIZ) of the Arctic Ocean. During the winter of 2014, more than 50 autonomous drifting buoys were deployed in four separate clusters on the sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, as part of the Office of Naval Research MIZ program. These systems measured the ocean-ice-atmosphere properties at …
Robust wavebuoys for the marginal ice zone
An array of novel directional wavebuoys was designed and deployed into the Beaufort Sea ice cover in March 2014, as part of the Office of Naval Research Marginal Ice Zone experiment. The buoys were designed to drift with the ice throughout the year and monitor the expected breakup and retreat of the ice cover, forced by waves travelling into the ice from open water. Buoys were deployed from fast-and-light air-supported ice camps, based out of Sac…
Oil spill response capabilities and technologies for ice-covered Arctic marine waters
Renewed political and commercial interest in the resources of the Arctic, the reduction in the extent and thickness of sea ice, and the recent failings that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have prompted industry and its regulatory agencies, governments, local communities and NGOs to look at all aspects of Arctic oil spill countermeasures with fresh eyes. This paper provides an overview of present oil spill response capabilities and techno…
Geology (18 works) · Oceanography (18 works) · Geology (14 works) · Oceanography (14 works) · Sea ice (13 works) · Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (12 works) · Climatology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Arctic (8 works) · Arctic ice pack (8 works)