Abstracts of Technical Reports Supported by the Office of Naval Research 1970.

• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE DEPT OF OCEANOGRAPHY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND; NITRATES; SILICATES; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTATION; SALINITY; PROBES; MARINE BIOLOGY; SEA WATER; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; Bering Strait; Greenland; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Chukchi; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0728284; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0728284

Contents: Wind-driven transports in the Greenland and Norwegian seas; Nitrate distribution in the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean; A biaxial propeller current-meter system for fixed-mount applications; Currents north of Bering Strait in winter; Oxygen supersaturations in the Chukchi and East Siberian seas; A mathematical model for the marine dissolved silicate cycle; Optimizing sediment sampling plans; Internal waves and their role in mixing the upper layers of the ocean; Silicoflagellates from central North Pacific core sediments; An evaluation of the Nomarski system for the study of siliceous microskeletons; Heat flow west of the Juan de Fuca ridge; Measurement of in situ sediment conductivity by means of a Bullard-type probe; Large-scale studies of primary production in the North Pacific Ocean; Micropaleontology of a Miocene core from the western tropical Pacific; Aspects of the mid-Pacific transition zone; Spectra of North Pacific temperature and salinity perturbations in the depth domain; Winter circulation in the Gulf of Alaska; The seasonal distribution of some seabirds off Washington and Oregon, with notes on their ecology and behavior; Inorganic zinc complexes in seawater. Sponsored in part by Contract Nonr-477(37).