Characteristics and Transformation of Pacific Winter Water on the Chukchi Sea Shelf in Late Spring

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Pacini, Astrid, Moore, George William Kent, Pickart, Robert S., Nobre, Carolina, Bahr, Frank, Våge, Kjetil, Arrigo, Kevin R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2020
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452; VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; Bering Strait; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi Shelf; Pacific; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/22350; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015261

Data from a late spring survey of the northeast Chukchi Sea are used to investigate various aspects of newly ventilated winter water (NVWW). More than 96% of the water sampled on the shelf was NVWW, the saltiest (densest) of which tended to be in the main flow pathways on the shelf. Nearly all of th...