Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions, Held in Fairbanks, Alaska, University of Alaska, 11-15 August 1975, Volume 1Many papers concerning exploration and transportation of arctic oil and gas. |
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AIDJEX analysis Arctic Ocean average Banks Island beam Beaufort Sea bergs brine calculated Canada coast compression data buoys deformation depth draft ratios effect elastic elastic modulus energy engineering environmental equations fast ice field flatjack floeberg floes fracture friction grounded ice grounded sea ice Gulf of Alaska height to draft ice conditions ice cover ice island ice sheet ice thickness icebergs imagery island of grounded kg/cm² Landsat loading Lockheed March maximum measurements mechanical meters modulus NOAA Nominal Oil Thickness observed obtained oceanographic offshore oil and gas open water operations pack ice parameters plate Poisson's ratio Polar polynya pressure ridges Prudhoe Bay radiant temperature range region Research salinity sample satellite sea ice sensors shear shore shown in Figure sonar strain stress structure techniques tensile tests transducer unit values velocity wave width wind Wrangel Island Young's modulus