Outflow of Pacific water from the Chukchi Sea to the Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Pickart, Robert S, Stossmeister, Greg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2008
• Subjects: Oceans; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Barrow Canyon; Advances in Polar Science; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2355/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2355/1/A200802005.pdf

Pacific water exits the Chukchi Sea shelf through Barrow Canyon in the east and Herald Canyon in the west, forming an eastward-directed shelf break boundary current that flows into the Beaufort Sea. Here we summarize the transformation that the Pacific water undergoes in the two canyons, and describ...