Modification of NO, PO, and NO/PO During Flow Across the Bering and Chukchi Shelves: Implications for Use as Arctic Water Mass Tracers

• Main Authors: Cooper, Lee W., Cota, Glenn F., Pomeroy, Lawrence R., Grebmeier, Jacqueline M., Whitledge, Terry E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ODU Digital Commons 1999
• Subjects: Bering shelf; Chukchi shelf; Mass tracers; Circulation; Sediments; Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Bering Shelf; Bering Strait; Chukchi Shelf; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Chukchi; Sea ice; St Lawrence Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ccpo_pubs/279; https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1283&context=ccpo_pubs

The NO and PO tracers (9[NO3-] + 02 and 135[PO4-] + 02, respectively,) and their derivative NO/PO have found increasing use in Arctic water mass analyses for identifying the specific basin or shelf areas from which surface waters originate, based upon assumed differences in Pacific- and Atlantic-der...