Source and Pathway of the Western Arctic Upper Halocline in a Data-Constrained Coupled Ocean and Sea Ice Model

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Authors: Nguyen, An T., Kwok, Ronald, Menemenlis, Dimitris
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Canada; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Chukchi Shelf; Anadyr'; canada basin; Chukchi; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75401

A coupled ocean and sea ice model is used to investigate dense water (DW) formation in the Chukchi and Bering shelves and the pathways by which this water feeds the upper halocline. Two 1992–2008 data-constrained solutions at 9- and 4-km horizontal grid spacing show that 1) winter sea ice growth res...