q 1997 American Meteorological Society Synoptic Flow and Density Observations near an Arctic Shelf Break

• Main Authors: Andreas Mu Nchow, Eddy C. Carmack
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Chukchi Shelf; Barrow Canyon; Barrow; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.689.7604; http://muenchow.cms.udel.edu/papers/barrow-jpo1.pdf

Analyses of data from three shipborne surveys describe the quasi-synoptic density and velocity fields near Barrow Canyon, Alaska. The canyon parallels the northwestern coast of Alaska and contains three different water masses. These are 1) warm and fresh Alaskan coastal waters that originate from th...