Mesoscale variability in the west Spitsbergen Current and adjacent waters in Fram Strait: by Alan M. Weigel.

• Main Author: Weigel, Alan M.
• Other Authors: NA
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1987
• Subjects: NA; Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Yermak Plateau; Arctic Basin; East Greenland; east greenland current; Fram Strait; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/22353

A dense network of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) measurements as carried out between 76°N and 81°Nin order to define the distribution of temperature and salinity in Fram Strait. Although weakly baroclinic, the WSC flow was found to be strongly influenced by the 2000 m deep Kipnovich Ridge whi...