CONTENTS
Preface .......................................................................................................
i
Abbreviations and conversions ..................................................................
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1 Introduction .............................................................................................
1
2 Cook Inlet Physical Description ...............................................................
3
2.1 Regional geography ..................................................................
3
2.2 Cook Inlet's Head region ...........................................................
3
2.3 Upper Cook Inlet .......................................................................
6
2.4 Lower Cook Inlet .......................................................................
6
3 Cook Inlet Marine Ice .............................................................................. 9
3.1 Ice types .................................................................................... 9
3.2 General marine ice environment ............................................... 13
3.3 Theoretical ice growth and melt ................................................ 17
3.4 Cook Inlet marine ice data ......................................................... 18
4 Expected Ice Conditions .........................................................................
25
Map Set 1. Mean ice concentration and stage of development ......
26
Map Set 2. Probability of occurrence for ice of any stage of
development and ice of any concentration ..................................
35
Map Set 3. Probability of occurrence for ice of any stage of
development and ice of at least 5/10ths concentration ................
44
5 Oceanography ......................................................................................... 53
5.1 Bathymetry ................................................................................ 53
5.2 Currents and tides ..................................................................... 53
6 Climatology .............................................................................................
59
6.1 Source and description of climatological data for Cook Inlet .....
59
6.2 Station climatologies .................................................................
61
6.3 Duration of daylight ...................................................................
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