Temperature measurements in subsea permafrost off the coast of Alaska

• Main Author: Th Can Permafrost Conf
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Norton Sound; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Ice; permafrost; Prudhoe Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.575.423; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/cpc/cpc4-238.pdf

Temperature measurements have been made in shallow, small-diameter boreholes in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering seas off the Alaskan coasts since 1975. Methods for making access holes with light-weight equipment are described. These included augering, water jet drilling, rotary water jet drill-ing...