Monitoring the Arctic Ocean

• 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

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.