Hi Rich,
My train has been invaded by hordes of Glasto goers!
How about "waves in ice" and/or "Arctic storm surge"?
My question is very specific Jim.
If the fresh warm water sitting at the edge of the Chuchki ocean ice interface is pushed further east in any meaningful volume, will the incoming water be dense enough to force water underneath the ice that's currently floating in the ice pack??
There's no realistic expectations that I'm going to find the answer to that specific question via a Google search.
I think there is some mixing between the incoming Bering water and the ice edge water, and ice melt is accelerated around the pathways coming from Bering, you can see these fingers forming right now, and I have seen them every year. Ice stays for longer on top of the shoals (elevations of the shelf bathymetry) because currents are forced to surround these shoals by Coriolis.
So it is clear a pulse of Pacific water affects directly the water under the ice edge as long as the ice edge lies over the shelf (low depth)
Once we reach the shelf break and depths go from 50 m to ~ thousands of meters, the Chukchi currents are free to sink and there is less interaction with the ice edge.
That’s how I see it.
But this has nothing with waves, by the way, it is Bering inflow-ice edge interaction.