IS IT POSSIBLE TO REMOVE THE ICE COVER OF THE NORTHERN ARCTIC OCEAN

The feasibility of a plan for the removal of the ice cover of the northern Arctic Ocean is discussed. The plan involves the construction of a dam across the Bering Straits and transferring 150,000 cubic km/year of water from the northern Arctic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean and an inflow of the Atlan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toporkov,L. G.
Other Authors: FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1964
Subjects:
(*CLIMATE
ARCTIC OCEAN)
(*OCEANOGRAPHY
(*ARCTIC OCEAN
CLIMATE)
ICE ISLANDS
MELTING
OCEAN CURRENTS
HEAT TRANSFER
DAMS
BERING SEA
MARINE METEOROLOGY
THEORY
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
PACIFIC OCEAN
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Bering Sea
Pacific
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0611038
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0611038
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Summary:The feasibility of a plan for the removal of the ice cover of the northern Arctic Ocean is discussed. The plan involves the construction of a dam across the Bering Straits and transferring 150,000 cubic km/year of water from the northern Arctic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean and an inflow of the Atlantic Ocean into the northern Arctic Ocean. Mozhno Li Unichtozhit'ledovyi Pokrov Severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana, trans. of Priroda (USSR), 1961, v. 50, no. 11, p. 93-97.

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