Wind-Driven Coastal Upwelling near Large River Deltas in the Laptev and East-Siberian Seas

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Alexander Osadchiev, Ksenia Silvestrova, Stanislav Myslenkov
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: coastal upwelling; wind forcing; river plume; MODIS; Arctic Ocean; Arctic; Laptev Sea; Kolyma; East Siberian Sea; Indigirka; laptev; lena delta
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12050844

The Lena, Kolyma, and Indigirka rivers are among the largest rivers that inflow to the Arctic Ocean. Their discharges form a freshened surface water mass over a wide area in the Laptev and East-Siberian seas and govern many local physical, geochemical, and biological processes. In this study we repo...