CORRELATION CHARACTERISTICS OF WIND, SEA CURRENTS, AND ICE DRIFT

N. E. Ivanov

Wind, sea current, and ice drift velocities are considered as dependent vector random variables in Euclidean space. A system of simplified indices of vector correlation in invariant form is used for express analysis. Regularities of the wind ice drift, under-ice boundary layer dynamics, and vertical distribution of current velocities and teleconnections in climatic fields of wind velocity are analyzed from measurements in the Baltic, Laptev, Greenland, and Barents seas and in the atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere Atlantic sector at 500 hPa.