NOPP: Circulation, Cross-Shelf Exchange, Sea Ice, and Marine Mammal Habitats on the Alaska Beaufort Sea Shelf

Our long-term goals are to understand how the physical oceanography, sea-ice dynamics, and marine mammal utilization of arctic shelves will change in response to a diminishing ice cover. We thus seek to understand better the wind-forced response of the shelf and shelfbreak and the cross-shelf exchan...

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Main Authors: Weingartner, Thomas, Holt, Ben, Kwok, Ron, Pickart, Robert, Plueddemann, Al, Moore, Susan, Stafford, Kate
Other Authors: ALASKA UNIV FAIRBANKS INST OF MARINE SCIENCE
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Biology
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Computer Programming and Software
*HABITATS
*SOFTWARE TOOLS
*SEA ICE
PASSIVE SYSTEMS
ARCTIC REGIONS
OCEANOGRAPHY
DISPLACEMENT
MAMMALS
UNDERWATER VEHICLES
ICE FORMATION
AUTONOMOUS ACOUSTIC RECORDERS
MAPPING RADARS
PROCESSING SOFTWARE
Arctic
Beaufort Sea
Sea ice
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA496581
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA496581
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Summary:Our long-term goals are to understand how the physical oceanography, sea-ice dynamics, and marine mammal utilization of arctic shelves will change in response to a diminishing ice cover. We thus seek to understand better the wind-forced response of the shelf and shelfbreak and the cross-shelf exchange of mass, materials, and momentum. These responses will likely affect the use of arctic shelves by marine mammals. We are applying several recently developed technologies to an arctic shelf in synergistic ways, including passive acoustic recorders, moored profiling CTDs, autonomous underwater vehicles, shore-based current mapping radars, and geophysical processing tools to determine ice displacement and deformation. These bear on another long-term goal which is to demonstrate the applicability of these technologies to other arctic shelves.

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