ICEBERG MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR BAFFIN BAY 2012 SCIENTIFIC CORING CAMPAIGN

摘要

During the summer 2012, Shell Kanumas A/S led a consortium of companies to conduct a scientific coring program in Melville Bay. The area of operations is in northern Baffin Bay, off the northwest coast of Greenland, and is characterized by a very high density of icebergs, with 316 tracked targets within 5 nautical miles of the coring vessel during the two-month campaign. To achieve the coring objectives, a comprehensive iceberg management strategy had to be developed, requiring a good understanding of the sea ice and iceberg conditions in the area. This paper presents an overview of the iceberg management plan by describing the detection, monitoring, forecasting systems and the decision protocols. The campaign also allowed testing of new iceberg drift forecasting and growler detection techniques.