Broad-scale component of RUSALCA: Looking Ahead

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Broad-scale component of RUSALCA Looking Ahead


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Looking Ahead

working circulation scheme
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Looking Ahead

Bering Strait connection
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Looking Ahead
TS-diagram Herald Canyon 2009
Alaskan Coastal Water or super-heated Anadyr
Water?

Need a mooring in the western side of Bering
Strait
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Looking Ahead

East Siberian Sea connection
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Looking Ahead

• Polynya water pathways

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Looking Ahead

• Polynya water pathways
• Role of exchange through Long Strait

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Looking Ahead

• Polynya water pathways
• Role of exchange through Long Strait
• Winter water formation in the ESS

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Looking Ahead

Eastern/western Chukchi Sea connection
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Looking Ahead

• Eastward diversion of water on the shelf

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Looking Ahead

• Eastward diversion of water on the shelf
• Continuity of shelfbreak jet

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Looking Ahead

• Eastward diversion of water on the shelf
• Continuity of shelfbreak jet
• Origin/fate of Siberian Coastal Current

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Looking Ahead

Shelf/Basin connection
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Looking Ahead

Shelf/Basin connection
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Looking Ahead
Temperature (color) overlain by density
(contours)

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Alongstream velocity (contours)
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Looking Ahead
Atlantic Water

Pacific Water
Shelf/Basin connection
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Looking Ahead
2008 Swedish/Russian expedition

Temperature (color) overlain by density
(contours)
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Broad-scale component of RUSALCA Considerations
for future sampling

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Considerations for future sampling

2004 2009 Surveys
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Considerations for future sampling

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Considerations for future sampling

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Considerations for future sampling

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Considerations for future sampling

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Considerations for future sampling

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Considerations for 2012 sampling

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Considerations for 2012 sampling

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Considerations for 2012 sampling

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