Winter conditions in the Bering Sea

• Main Authors: Paquette, Robert G, Bourke, Robert H.
• 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 1981
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Sea Ice; Yukon River; Icebreaker; Oceanography ,CTD; Freezing point; POLAR STAR; Arctic; Polar Star; Yukon; Arctic Submarine Laboratory; Sea ice; Yukon river; ice covered areas
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/30288

This report presents the results of the oceanographic cruise of the USCGC POLAR STAR to the ice-covered areas of the Bering Sea in February-April, 1980. The 83 stations made represent the most extensive set of under-ice observations in the area using modern, high precision conductivity-temperature-depth recordings and elucidate features not observable in the historical data. Two crossings of the ice margin were made, separated by 600 Km. These showed that cold, dilute water overlies warmer saltier water of Bering Sea origin. This This report presents the results of the oceanographic cruise of the USCGC POLAR STAR to the ice-covered areas of the Bering Sea in February-April, 1980. The 83 stations made represent the most extensive set of under-ice observations in the area using modern, high precision conductivity-temperature-depth recordings and elucidate features not observable in the historical data. Two crossings of the ice margin were made, separated by 600 Km. These showed that cold, dilute water overlies warmer saltier water of Bering Sea origin. ThisThis report presents the results of the oceanographic cruise of the USCGC POLAR STAR to the ice-covered areas of the Bering Sea in February-April, 1980. The 83 stations made represent the most extensive set of under-ice observations in the area using modern, high precision conductivity-temperature-depth recordings and elucidate features not observable in the historical data. Two crossings of the ice margin were made, separated by 600 Km. These showed that cold, dilute water overlies warmer saltier water of Bering Sea origin. This latter water is present far back on the shelf, some 200 km behind the ice edge. Arctic Submarine Laboratory http://archive.org/details/winterconditions00bour