The Arctic Circumpolar Boundary Current

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Aksenov, Yevgeny, Ivanov, Vladimir V., Nurser, A.J. George, Bacon, Sheldon, Polyakov, Igor V., Coward, Andrew C., Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Beszczynska-Moeller, Agnieszka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Bering Strait; Pacific; St. Anna Trough; Chukchi; Fram Strait
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/202517/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/202517/1/pdf

We present high?resolution simulations and observational data as evidence of a fast current flowing along the shelf break of the Siberian and Alaskan shelves in the Arctic Ocean. Thus far, the Arctic Circumpolar Boundary Current (ACBC) has been seen as comprising two branches: the Fram Strait and Ba...