Monitoring the Arctic Ocean

The past few years have demonstrated extraordinarily large and rapid changes in the arctic marine environment, including basin-wide shifts in nutrient distributions, large subsurface warming, and widespread fine structure extending into the interior from the thermally perturbed boundary currents. We...

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Main Author: Aagaard, Knut
Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1997
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*ARCTIC OCEAN
*MONITORING
BEAUFORT SEA
BERING STRAIT
CHUKCHI SEA
CONTINENTAL SHELVES
CONTINENTAL SLOPES
EDDIES(FLUID MECHANICS)
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS
STRATIFICATION
VARIATIONS
TEMPORAL VARIABILITY
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Bering Strait
Chukchi Sea
Beaufort Sea
Chukchi
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA627629
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA627629
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Summary:The past few years have demonstrated extraordinarily large and rapid changes in the arctic marine environment, including basin-wide shifts in nutrient distributions, large subsurface warming, and widespread fine structure extending into the interior from the thermally perturbed boundary currents. We seek a quantitative understanding of the processes responsible for these changes, looking toward a physically realistic and mechanistically based predictive capability.

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