One-Year Records of Current and Bottom Pressure in the Strait between Nordaustlandet and Kvitoeya, Svalbard, 1980-1981.
We have obtained one year of measurements from a subsurface instrumented mooring carrying two current meters and one bottom pressure recorder in the strait between Nordaustlandet and Kvitoeya in the northeastern Svalbard archipelago. The observations show a mixed tide with typical amplitudes 0.4db a...
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1984
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Summary: | We have obtained one year of measurements from a subsurface instrumented mooring carrying two current meters and one bottom pressure recorder in the strait between Nordaustlandet and Kvitoeya in the northeastern Svalbard archipelago. The observations show a mixed tide with typical amplitudes 0.4db and 10 cm/sec. The semidiurnal tide is characterized by a progressive wave propagating toward the south, together with a cross-channel baroclinic mode. The annual average (non-tidal) current is less than 2 cm/sec toward the north-east, suggesting that the transport into the Arctic Ocean is approximately 200,000 cu m/s. |
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