Closing the Mass Budget between Bering Strait and the Arctic Basin: The Chukchi Slope Current

• Main Authors: Corlett, W. Bryce, Pickart, Robert S.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2018
• Subjects: 40503 Physical Oceanography; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Oceanography; Arctic; Chukchi Sea; Bering Strait; Pacific; Barrow Canyon; Arctic Basin; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7291811.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/Closing_the_Mass_Budget_between_Bering_Strait_and_the_Arctic_Basin_The_Chukchi_Slope_Current/7291811/1

- Data from a collection of shipboard transects have revealed the presence of a heretofore unknown westward flowing current along the Chukchi Sea continental slope, which we call the Chukchi Slope Current. It transports 0.50±0.08 Sv of Pacific-origin water westward from Barrow Canyon.- The Slope Current exhibits significant seasonal (+0.5 Sv) and interannual (+0.3 Sv) variability, which is likely wind-driven.- The discovery of the Chukchi Slope Current brings us closer to closing the Pacific water mass budget of the Chukchi Sea.