Marginal Sea Ice Zone Oceanographic Measurements, Bering and Chukchi Seas, 1973 and 1974

• Main Authors: Garrison,G. R., Becker,P.
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *Sea ice; *Chukchi Sea; *Bering Sea; Thermal properties; Microstructure; Straits; Ocean currents; Fluid flow; Heating; Sea water; Oceanographic data; Surveys; Intrusion; Arctic regions; Underwater sound; Alaska; Bering Strait; Wrangel Island; Barrow(Alaska); Arctic; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Barrow; Chukchi; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA018763; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA018763

Oceanographic surveys were conducted in the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait and the Chukchi Sea to study the summer intrusion of warm water into the Chukchi Sea. The northward movement of warmed Bering Sea water starts early in July and enters the Chukchi Sea in two areas: A narrow current along the c...