Monitoring the Arctic Ocean

Abstract

The past few years have demonstrated extraordinarily large and rapid changes in the arctic marine environment, including basin-wide shifts in nutrient distributions, large subsurface warming, and widespread fine structure extending into the interior from the thermally perturbed boundary currents. We seek a quantitative understanding of the processes responsible for these changes, looking toward a physically realistic and mechanistically based predictive capability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA627629

Entities

People

  • Knut Aagaard

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Bodies Of Water
  • Boundaries
  • Chukchi Sea
  • Coast Guard
  • Continental Slopes
  • Data Centers
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Monitoring
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Salinity

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers