WATER CIRCULATION IN THE BERING SEA.

• Main Author: Arsenev, V. S.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; (*BERING SEA; *OCEAN CURRENTS); HYDROLOGY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING; USSR; Bering Sea
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0635064; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0635064

Analysis of dynamic charts constructed on the basis of independent data of long-term mean temperature and salinity values for different months shows that, despite the assumed conception, no common cyclonic circulation exists in the Bering Sea surface layer. By the north-western current system, the Sea is divided into two parts essentially different in the water transport: deep-water south-western part with well defined cyclonic circulation and shallow-water north--eastern part with predominating clockwise currents. At great depths of Western as well as Central basins of the Sea, the cyclonic character of water motions prevails. (Author) Tsirkulyatsiya vod Beringvva Morya, trans. of Okeanologicheskie Issledovaniya (USSR) n13 p61-5 1965.