Transport of Pacific Water Into the Canada Basin and the Formation of the Chukchi Slope Current

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Spall, Michael A., Pickart, Robert S., Li, Min, Itoh, Motoyo, Lin, Peigen, Kikuchi, Takashi, Qi, Yiquan
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2018
• Subjects: Oceanography; Canada Basin; halocline; ventilation; Chukchi Sea; SEA-ICE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; BEAUFORT GYRE; MODEL; CIRCULATION; LAYER; FLOW; ZOOPLANKTON; PATTERNS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Beaufort Slope; Bering Strait; Canada; Chukchi Shelf; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; canada basin; Chukchi; Sea ice; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://ir.gig.ac.cn/handle/344008/40580; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013825

Plain Language Summary A high-resolution regional ocean model together with moored hydrographic and velocity measurements is used to identify the pathways and mechanisms by which Pacific water, modified over the Chukchi shelf, crosses the shelf break into the Canada Basin. Most of the Pacific water...