Deep Bering Sea Circulation and Variability, 2001–2016, From Argo Data

Circulation Over the Continental Shelf of the Southeastern Bering Sea

5 Using extensive direct current measurements made during the period 1975-78, we describe flow over the southeastern Bering Sea shelf. Characteristics of the flow permit us to define three distinct regimes, nearly coincident with the hydrographic domains defined in the previous chapter. The coastal regime, inshore of the 50 m isobath, had a slow (1-5 em/sec) counterclockwise mean current and oc...

Constraints on mantle He fluxes and deep-sea circulation from an oceanic general circulation model

We have simulated the steady-state distribution of helium in the deep sea to investigate the magnitude and spatial and temporal variability of mantle degassing and to characterize deep-sea circulation and ventilation. The simulation was produced by linking a simple source function for helium injected at mid-ocean ridges with an oceanic general circulation model (GCM). By assuming that the flux ...

Eastern Bering Sea - 2005

The anomalously warm winter of 2005 follows similarly warm winters of 2003 and 2004. Although surface air temperature in the winter of 2002 was colder than 1961-2000 average, the depth-integrated temperatures at Mooring 2 indicate that the shift to warmer conditions in the Bering Sea began in the spring of 2000. This warming becomes comparable in its scale with major warm episodes in the late 1...

Characteristics and Variability of Storm Tracks in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, and Alaska*

The North Pacific and Bering Sea regions represent loci of cyclogenesis and storm track activity. In this paper climatological properties of extratropical storms in the North Pacific/Bering Sea are presented based upon aggregate statistics of individual storm tracks calculated by means of a feature-tracking algorithm run using NCEP–NCAR reanalysis data from 1948/49 to 2008, provided by the NOAA...

Sea Surface Salinity And Barrier Layer Variability In The Equatorial Pacific As Seen From Aquarius And Argo