Dense Water Formation, Cross-Shelf Transport, and Mixing on a Shallow Sloping Continental Shelf

OCE-9730697 Weingartner项目是为了在白令海北部大陆架上进行实地研究，以测试关于大陆架对流和通风水域向对流区域扩散的新理论观点。这些想法现在已经被几个研究人员在许多出版物中探索，提出了与早期通过准地转羽流通风的想法显著不同的替代方案。现场工作包括部署8个系泊平台，配备Seabird温度/盐度记录仪和常规海流计。此外，私营部门还计划从遥感获取关于波尼亚开发和地表特征跟踪的独立信息。

OCE-9730697 Weingartner The project is for a field study over the northern Bering Sea shelf to test new theoretical ideas about shelf convection and the spreading of ventilated waters away from the convective region. These ideas, which have now been explored in a number of publications by several investigators, propose alternatives that are significantly different from earlier ideas of ventilation by quasi- geostrophic plumes. The filed work consists of deployment of eight moorings, instrumented with Seabird temperature/salinity recorder and conventional current meters. In addition, PIs plan to acquire independent information from remote sensing on the polynya development and on surface feature tracking.