7 Literature Cited ........................................................................................ 75
Appendix A: Sea Ice Nomenclature, Arranged by Subject .........................
79
Appendix B: Example of a Cook Inlet Ice Cover Analysis Issued by the
National Ice Center in Suitland, Maryland ............................
87
Appendix C: Procedure Used to Create the Composite Cook Inlet
Ice Charts .............................................................................
91
Appendix D: Air Temperature .....................................................................
95
Appendix E: Wind .......................................................................................
109
Appendix F: Wind Chill ...............................................................................
123
Appendix G: Sea Level Pressure ...............................................................
125
Appendix H: Bibliography ...........................................................................
139
ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1. Cook Inlet and relief map of surrounding region .........................
4
Figure 2. Place names of the Head Region of Cook Inlet ..........................
5
Figure 3. Young, gray, and gray-white ice, some floes white with snow
cover, moving with the tide past the Port of Anchorage in
Lower Knik Arm ....................................................................
5
Figure 4. Place names of Upper Cook Inlet ...............................................
6
Figure 5. Place names of Lower Cook Inlet ...............................................
7
Figure 6. Brash ice clogging Homer's small boat harbor to an
unusual extent ......................................................................
8
Figure 7. Relationship between the temperature of maximum density and
the freezing point of water with respect to salinity ................
10
Figure 8. Relationship between the thickness of young sea ice, accumu-
lated freezing degree-days, and snow cover thickness ........
10
Figure 9. Typical mixed-ice conditions in Upper Cook Inlet, featuring ice
floes, both level ice and shove-thickened pans,
interspersed with broken and brash ice in various
first-year thin stages of development ....................................
14
Figure 10. Dates of significant ice formation at the Phillips Platform with
respect to freezing degree-days ...........................................
16
Figure 11. Mean monthly freezing and thawing degree-days for 1974
1997 assuming base temperatures of 0 and 1.8C,
respectively, for four locations on Cook Inlet ........................
20
Figure 12. Seasonal variation of freezing and thawing degree-days for
19741997 for four locations on Cook Inlet ..........................
21
Figure 13. Season total FDDs for Anchorage, Alaska ................................
21
Figure 14. Radarsat-1 SAR imagery showing the Forelands area of
Cook Inlet at near low tide on December 30, 1998 ..............
23
Figure 15. Example of a sea ice analysis chart issued by the Alaska
Region Headquarters of the National Weather Service ........
24
Figure 16. Cook Inlet bathymetry ...............................................................
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