The plume of the Yukon River in relation to the oceanography of the Bering Sea
The ecosystem of the northern Bering-Sea shelf was studied using data from the NOAA Very High Resolution Radiometer and AVHRR and the Landsat MSS and Thematic Mapper (TM) in conjunction with shipboard measurements. Emphasis was placed on the influence of the Yukon River on this inner shelf environme...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19900028052 2023-05-15T15:43:29+02:00 The plume of the Yukon River in relation to the oceanography of the Bering Sea Dean, Kenneson G. Mcroy, C. Peter Ahlnas, Kristina Springer, Alan Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available Jun 1, 1989 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900028052 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900028052 Accession ID: 90A15107 Copyright Other Sources 48 Remote Sensing of Environment; 28; 75-84 1989 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T18:23:13Z The ecosystem of the northern Bering-Sea shelf was studied using data from the NOAA Very High Resolution Radiometer and AVHRR and the Landsat MSS and Thematic Mapper (TM) in conjunction with shipboard measurements. Emphasis was placed on the influence of the Yukon River on this inner shelf environment and on the evaluation of the utility of the new Landsat TM data for oceanography. It was found that the patterns of water mass distribution obtained from satellite images agreed reasonably well with the areal patterns of temperature, salinity, and phytoplankton distributions. The AVHRR, MSS, and TM data show that the Yukon-River discharge is warmer and more turbid than the surrounding coastal water that originates to the south; thus, the Yukon water contributes to the higher temperatures and lower transmissivity of the coastal water. The high resolution of the TM thermal IR band made it possible to observe complex patterns and structures in the surface water that could not be resolved on previous data sets. Other/Unknown Material Bering Sea Yukon river Yukon NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Bering Sea Yukon |
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The ecosystem of the northern Bering-Sea shelf was studied using data from the NOAA Very High Resolution Radiometer and AVHRR and the Landsat MSS and Thematic Mapper (TM) in conjunction with shipboard measurements. Emphasis was placed on the influence of the Yukon River on this inner shelf environment and on the evaluation of the utility of the new Landsat TM data for oceanography. It was found that the patterns of water mass distribution obtained from satellite images agreed reasonably well with the areal patterns of temperature, salinity, and phytoplankton distributions. The AVHRR, MSS, and TM data show that the Yukon-River discharge is warmer and more turbid than the surrounding coastal water that originates to the south; thus, the Yukon water contributes to the higher temperatures and lower transmissivity of the coastal water. The high resolution of the TM thermal IR band made it possible to observe complex patterns and structures in the surface water that could not be resolved on previous data sets. |
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The plume of the Yukon River in relation to the oceanography of the Bering Sea |
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The plume of the Yukon River in relation to the oceanography of the Bering Sea |
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