Glaciation and Meridional Circulation on a High Latitude Continental Shelf During the Last 20,000 Years.

该奖项支持一项研究沉积物的研究计划 沉积物芯的五个断面的累积率， 穿过今天的主要流向北极的大西洋 水（例如，西斯匹次卑尔根海流（West Spitsbergen Current）。 因为 Wets Spitsbergen Current）。 因为西斯匹次卑尔根群岛 海流是海洋热量的主要输入者， 北极，并负责保持海冰免费 挪威海的情况，详细了解 这股电流的历史对于一个完整的 了解末次冰期到 目前温暖的间冰期气候状态。 温盐 在广阔的北极边缘大陆架上， 在北极温盐环流中的重要作用 有中浪 该项目将研究西方是否 斯匹次卑尔根大陆架在上个世纪末 最大冰川期（约1.8万年前）。 船 时间是免费提供给这个建议， 挪威极地研究所。

This award supports a program of research to study sediment accumulation rates in five transects of sediment cores that cross today's primary flow path of Arctic bound Atlantic water (e.g., the West Spitsbergen Current). Because the Wets Spitsbergen Current). Because the West Spitsbergen Current is the primary importer of ocean heat to the High Arctic, and is responsible for maintaining the sea-ice free conditions in the Norwegian Sea, detailed knowledge of the history of this current is critical to a complete understanding of the transition form the last glaciation to the present warm, interglacial climate state. Thermohaline processes on the broad Arctic margin shelves play an important role in the thermohaline circulation of the Arctic Seas. This project will examine whether the West Spitsbergen Continental Shelf was glaciated during the Last Glacial Maximum (approximately 18 thousand years ago). Ship time is provided at no charge to this proposal by the Norwegian Polar Research Institute.