Environmental Oceanography of the Arctic Ocean and Its Marginal Seas

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Long-term: To clarify the global role of the Arctic Ocean by investigating its essential biogeochemical characteristics. Immediate: 1) Continuation of Ice-Ocean Environmental Buoys (IOEBs) in the northern Canada Basin and middle Beaufort Sea to further understanding of the role of the permanently ice-covered Arctic in global biogeochemical cycles. (2) To quantify the export fluxes of essential biogeochemical elements and isotopes from the upper ocean to the ocean s interior in the hard-to-access Arctic Basin and its marginal seas including the Sea of Okhotsk. (3) Particularly, to understand the dichothermal-layer-controlled oceanography of the Sea of Okhotsk and to stage a high-grade international collaborative research with Japan, Russia and Korea.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA635107

Entities

People

  • Susumu Honjo

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Climate Change
  • Education
  • Geographic Distribution
  • High Latitudes
  • Ice
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Okhotsk Sea
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Particle Flux
  • Particles
  • Yellow Sea

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies