Hydrometeorological Regime of the Kara, Laptev, and East-Siberian Seas.

• Main Authors: Paclov, V. K., Timokhov, L. A., Baskakov, G. A., Kulakov, M. Yu., Kurazhov, V. K.
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Radiation Pollution and Control; Meteorology; *METEOROLOGICAL DATA; *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; *RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; DATA PROCESSING; POLAR REGIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; CONTAMINANTS; RUSSIA; PLUMES; OCEAN BASINS; ARCTIC OCEAN; FOREIGN REPORTS; KARA SEA; LAPTEV SEA; EAST SIBERIAN SEA; Antarctic; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; East Siberian Sea; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; Antarc*; Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute; Arctic Basin; Kara-Laptev; laptev; Polar Science Center; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA304976; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA304976

Under contract to the Polar Science Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, has written a review of the hydro-meteorological regime of the Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian seas, using available Russian and foreign references, data from international expeditions, and modeling results. This work was supported by the Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program of the United States Office of Naval Research as part of a study of river plumes on the Russian continental shelves. It is the first step in a joint project aimed at determining the likely distribution of radionuclide contaminants by Russian river plumes through a coordinated effort of data analysis and modeling. The review suggests that river plume circulation on the Russian shelves provides a manifold for distributing contaminants to the whole Arctic Basin and, because of the tendency for eastward along shore flow in the Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian seas, a possible direct pathway for contaminants to reach Alaska.