Accession Number:

AD1013750

Title:

Upper-Ocean Variability in the Arctic's Amundsen and Nansen Basins

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole United States

Personal Author(s):

• Toole,John M.
• Krishfield,Richard A.
• Cole,Sylvia T.

Report Date:

2015-09-30

Pagination or Media Count:

3.0

Abstract:

The PI group seeks to observe the upper Arctic Ocean using autonomous instrumentation and build understanding of the physical processes controlling the evolving thermohaline stratification, the ocean currents and air-ice-sea interactions on time scales of minutes to seasonal and longer.

Descriptors:

• arctic ocean
• stratification
• observation
• velocity

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE