The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic – Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes R. Woodgate 1 , T. Weingartner 2 , T. Whitledge 2 , Ron Lindsay 1 , I. Lavrenov 3 1 Applied Physics Lab-U. Washington, Seattle, WA 2 U. Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 3 Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Sponsorship: NSF, NOAA, Russian Federation of Science Arctic Ocean Network Meeting Boulder, CO, March, 2007
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The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic – Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes R. Woodgate 1, T. Weingartner 2, T. Whitledge 2, Ron Lindsay.
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The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic – Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes
R. Woodgate1, T. Weingartner2, T. Whitledge2, Ron Lindsay1, I. Lavrenov3
1Applied Physics Lab-U. Washington, Seattle, WA
2U. Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
3Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sponsorship:
NSF, NOAA, Russian Federation of Science
Arctic Ocean Network Meeting
Boulder, CO, March, 2007
Science Issues Confidence Level
Mass Flux: ~0.8 +/- 0.2 Sv M, S: reasonable, IV: modest
Freshwater Flux: M, S: low, IV: poor 2500 ± 300 km3/yr (2005) (33% of the Arctic FW influx)