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

该项目是在白令海北部大陆架进行实地研究，以测试关于大陆架对流和通风水域从对流区扩散的新理论观点。这些想法，现在已经在一些研究人员的出版物中进行了探索，提出了与早期的准地转羽流通风想法有很大不同的替代方案。现场工作包括部署八个系泊，配备海鸟温度/盐度记录仪和常规海流仪。此外，pi计划从遥感中获取关于冰湖发育和地物跟踪的独立信息。

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.