Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Aksenov, Yevgeny, Karcher, Michael, Proshutinsky, Andrey, Gerdes, Rüdiger, de Cuevas, Beverly, Golubeva, Elena, Kauker, Frank, Nguyen, An T., Platov, Gennady A., Wadley, Martin, Watanabe, Eiji, Coward, Andrew C., Nurser, A. J. George
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
• Subjects: Research Articles; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Barrow Canyon; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Canada; Chukchi Shelf; East Siberian Sea; Greenland; Pacific; Baffin; Barrow; canada basin; Central Arctic; Chukchi; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070528/; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011299

Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings in heat, fresh water, and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper, pathways of PW are investigated...