Cruise Observations in the Greenland Sea and Barents Sea, January 1999

The National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) carried out an observation cruise in the Arctic in cooperation with the Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Russia. The observation area was the western part of the Barents Sea and north-eastern part of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hajime Ito
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Japanese
Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1999
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15094/00009085
https://doaj.org/article/14d138f970b64814991ac80652773621
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Summary:The National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) carried out an observation cruise in the Arctic in cooperation with the Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), Russia. The observation area was the western part of the Barents Sea and north-eastern part of the Greenland Sea. The area is considered to be a major carbon sink and also where bottom water is formed. The field work is reported here together with some preliminary results.