Mesoscale Variability in the West Spitsbergen Current and Adjacent Waters in Fram Strait.

• Main Author: Weigel,Alan M.
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *WATER; TEMPERATURE; DISTRIBUTION; EDGES; THESES; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; ICE; SCALE; LENGTH; NORTH(DIRECTION); ATLANTIC OCEAN; SALINITY; SEA WATER; GREENLAND SEA; EAST(DIRECTION); GREENLAND; ARCTIC OCEAN; West Spitzbergen Current; Fram Strait; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Yermak Plateau; Arctic Basin; East Greenland; east greenland current; Greenland Sea; Spitzbergen; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA178289; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA178289

A dense network of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) measurements was carried out betwen 76 N and 81 N in order to define the distribution of temperature and salinity in Fram Strait. Although weakly baroclinic, the WSC flow was found to be strongly influenced by the 2000 m deep Kipnovich Ridge wh...