The drift of ice island WH-5

ABSTRACT. From 1962 to 1964 Ice Island WH-5 drifted south from the Arctic Ocean water transport through Nares Strait is not continuous, and during the summer of 1963 was through Nares Strait and Baffin Bay. The movements of WH-5 indicate that the southward clockwise gyre in Kane Basin. By the time t...

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Main Authors: David C. Nutt, Ml Nponubob
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1966
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Baffin Bay
Kane
Lent
Nares
Smith Sound
Arctique*
Baffin
Kane Basin
Nares strait
Smith sound
Terre-Neuve
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.567.2504
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic19-3-244.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. From 1962 to 1964 Ice Island WH-5 drifted south from the Arctic Ocean water transport through Nares Strait is not continuous, and during the summer of 1963 was through Nares Strait and Baffin Bay. The movements of WH-5 indicate that the southward clockwise gyre in Kane Basin. By the time they reached the waters of Labfador and Newfound-interrupted by pulses of surface water to the north and the development of a sluggish counter-land in 1964 the WH-5 pieces were extensively scattered due to their Irregular escape from Smith Sound and the vagaries of the Baffin and Labrador Current systems. Rl%UMl?. La Ddrive de I’île de glace WH-5. De 1962 à 1964, l’île de lace WH-5 a dCrivC vers le sud, de l’ocCan Arctique à travers le dCtroit de Nares et la baie de Bakn. Les mouvements continu et que durant 1 ” de 1963, il fut interrompu par des poussCes d’eau de surface vers le de WH-5 indiquent que le transport d’eau vers le sud à travers le dCtroit de Nares n’est pas atteignirent les eaux du Labrador et de Terre-Neuve en 1964, les dCbris de WH-5 ava!ent kt6 nord et le dCveloppement d’un lent mouvement lCvogyre dans le bassin de Kane. Lorsqu’ils considCrablement dispersCs par leur sortie irrkgulière du dCtrolt de Smith et les caprlces des systèmes de courants de Baffin et du Labrador.

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