Eddy transport of organic carbon and nutrients from the Chukchi Shelf: Impact on the upper halocline of the western Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Mathis, Jeremy T., Pickart, Robert S., Hansell, Dennis A., Kadko, David, Bates, Nicholas R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Chukchi Shelf; Pacific; canada basin; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/357437/

In September 2004 a detailed physical and chemical survey was conducted on an anticyclonic, cold-core eddy located seaward of the Chukchi Shelf in the western Arctic Ocean. The eddy had a diameter of ?16 km and was centered at a depth of ?160 m between the 1000 and 1500 m isobaths over the continent...