The Bering Sea : communication with the Western subarctic gyre, mesoscale activity, shelf-basin exchange, and the flow through Bering Strait

• Main Author: Kinney, Jaclyn Clement
• Other Authors: Maslowski, Wieslaw, Oceanography
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2011
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Physical Oceanography; Polar Oceanography; Arctic Oceanography; Eddies; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Arctic; Bering Strait; Aleutian Island; Anadyr'; Chukchi; Sea ice; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/10780

A 1/12th-degree, pan-Arctic ice-ocean numerical model is used to better understand the circulation and exchanges in the Bering Sea. Understanding the physical oceanography of the Bering Sea is significant for the U.S. Navy due to the expected increase in ship traffic and exploration of natural resou...