P a p e r s SURFACE WATER IN THE EURASIAN BASIN OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN*

• Main Authors: L. K. Coachman, C. A. Barnes
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: water basins; the Canadian and the Eurasian; as shown in Fig. l a (LaFond; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Lafond
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.528.9973; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic15-4-251.pdf

T HE Arctic Ocean can be separated, on the basis of temperature and salinity characteristics of the water, into a three-layered system. This layered nature of the water in the Arctic Ocean was first observed by Nansen (1902) who, ,during the drift of the Fram, noted that the top layer of the sea, be...