On the Barents Sea Polar Front in summer and interpretations of the associated regional oceanography using an Arctic Ocean general circulation model

• Main Author: Parsons, Arthur Rost
• Other Authors: Bourke, Robert H., Semtner, Albert J., Physical Oceanography
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1995
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Bear Island; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/7579

In August 1992 a combined physical oceanography and acoustic tomography experiment was conducted to describe the Barents Sea Polar Front (BSPF) and investigate its associated mesoscale phenomena. The study area was an 80 by 70 km grid east of Bear Island where the front exhibits topographic trapping...