MIZLANT 86 data report results of an oceanographic cruise to Northern Baffin Bay and Nares Strait in September 1986

• Main Authors: Bourke, Robert H., Paquette, Robert G., Addison, Victor G.
• Other Authors: Operations Research (OR), Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences (GSOIS)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1988
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; Nares Straight; SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; Arctic Intermediate Water; OCEAN CURRENTS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kennedy Channel; Lancaster Sound; Nares; Smith Sound; Arctic Submarine Laboratory; Baffin; Kennedy channel; Lincoln Sea; Nares strait; Smith sound; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/29981

Salinity and temperature measurements were made at 145 oceanographic stations in northern Baffin Bay and the waters to the north as far as the southern fringes of the Lincoln Sea. Intermediate water from the West Spitzbergen Current is shown to turn westward and enter Lancaster Sound, being walled off from entering Smith Sound to any great degree by bathmetry. Intermediate water from the Arctic Ocean flows southweard, the deeper and warmer parts truncated by a sill in Kennedy Channel. NA Prepared for: Director, Arctic Submarine Laboratory Naval Ocean Systems Center http://archive.org/details/mizlant86datarep00bour