Optical Properties of the Kara Sea

• Main Authors: Johnson, Donald R., Asper, Vernon L., McClimans, Thomas, Weidemann, Alan D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Aquila Digital Community 2000
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Arctic; East Novaya Zemlya Trough; Kara Sea; Novaya Zemlya Trough; Yenisey; Novaya Zemlya; ob river
• Online Access: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/4221; https://aquila.usm.edu/context/fac_pubs/article/5220/viewcontent/optical_properties_of_the_kara_sea.pdf

This study was motivated by the need to understand dispersion processes which affect the redistribution of nuclear wastes in the Arctic from dump sites in the Kara Sea and in the rivers which flow into the Kara Sea. We focus on vertical profiles of light beam transmission and fluorometry made over t...