The Bering Strait as a Super Strait

由于白令海峡的热量和盐分向北流动，因此它对北半球的现今气候很重要，而古海洋学替代数据表明，它对该地区的古气候也很重要。最近的理论工作表明，白令海峡的平均海洋条件只受到当地风和当地浮力强迫的轻微影响。相反，主要的(负责的)作用力被认为是全球浮力场和全球风场。提供资金，使用从简单的面向过程的数值模型到海洋环流和气候模型等一系列模型来研究这一新想法。该项目的具体目标是：一、确定全球风场在确定通过白令海峡的流速方面所起的作用；二、以确定上一次冰川末期的突然变暖是否部分是由于白令海峡的开放(由海平面上升引起)。

Because of its associated northward fluxes of heat and salt, the flow through the Bering Strait is important to the present climate of the northern hemisphere and paleoceanographic proxy data suggests that it has also been critical to the paleoclimate of the region. Recent theoretical work suggests that the mean oceanic conditions in the Bering Strait are only marginally affected by the local wind and local buoyancy forcing. Rather, the primary (responsible) forcings are purported to be the global buoyancy field and the global wind field. Funds are provided to examine this new idea using a hierarchy of models ranging from simple process-oriented numerical models to ocean general circulation and climate models. The project's specific goals are:i. to determine what role the global wind field plays in determining the flow rate through the Bering Strait, and ii. to determine whether the abrupt warming at the end of the last glaciation resulted in part from the opening of the Bering Strait (induced by sea level rise).