Ice drift

Ice drift

Ice drift is movement of ice. An important type of ice drift it drift of the sea ice, i.e., of the drift ice. Unless specified otherwise, this article discusses the drift of the sea ice. The direction of the ice drift is the vector sum of the oceanic and atmospheric circulations, i.e., upper ocean currents and winds. Jens Bischof (2008) "Ice Drift, Ocean Circulation and Climate Change", ISBN185233648X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=WZgtNnR21kgC&pg=PA3&vq=%22ice+drift%22&dq=%22ice+drift+is%22&source=gbs_search_s&sig=0E7EaIeQ0Mw3p171a3BsZbCZTm8#PPA3,M1 p.3] ] Therefore study of ice drift is a tool for climate research. Ice rafting, i.e., transport of material by ice allows geologists and oceanologists to reconstruct histories of past ice drift routes. [ Bischof (2008), [http://books.google.com/books?id=WZgtNnR21kgC&pg=PA9&vq=%22ice+drift%22&dq=%22ice+drift+is%22&source=gbs_search_s&cad=5&sig=iRS1kb1Ne8Gnc-qb99YOxcIJhiU Chapter 3: The Concept of Ice Rafting] ]

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