Winter Water Formation in Coastal Polynyas of the Eastern Chukchi Shelf: Pacific and Atlantic Influences

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Hirano, Daisuke, Fukamachi, Yasushi, Ohshima, Kay I, Watanabe, Eiji, Mahoney, Andrew R., Eicken, Hajo, Itoh, Motoyo, Simizu, Daisuke, Iwamoto, Katsushi, Jones, Joshua, Takatsuka, Toru, Kikuchi, Takashi, Tamura, Takeshi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Alaskan Coastal Winter Water; hybrid coastal polynya; sea-ice production; upwelling; ocean heat flux; Chukchi Sea; 452; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Pacific; Chukchi Shelf; Barrow Canyon; Chukchi Borderland; aleutian low; Barrow; canada basin; Chukchi; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/72737; https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013307

Water properties and formation processes of Alaskan Coastal Winter Water (ACWW) over the eastern Chukchi shelf along the Alaska coast, the so-called Barrow Canyon pathway, are examined using data from moorings, atmospheric reanalysis, satellite-derived sea-ice production (SIP), and a numerical trace...