A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
Basic Project Information
Start Date:
15 September 2007
End Date:
31 August 2008
Full Title:
A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
Abstract or Short Description:
Funds are provided to collect, quality control, analyze and distribute to all Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST) investigators the core physical and chemical observations during the spring cruises projected for BEST. This proposed study will also examine how sea-ice affects along- and across-shelf gradients of temperature, salinity, fluorescence, oxygen, nutrients and currents by integrating data from multiple hydrographic surveys in late winter and spring with trajectories from satellite-tracked drifters and data from long-term moorings (funded elsewhere).
Project Web Link:
http://www.arcus.org/Bering/projects.html
Funding Agencies:
National Science Foundation
Unique Project Identifier(s):
0732430
Personnel Information
Principal Investigator(s):
Rolf Sonnerup (rolf.sonnerup@noaa.gov)
Scientific Focus
Relevant Science Question(s):
To what extent is the arctic system predictable (i.e., what are the potential accuracies and/or uncertainties in predictions of relevant arctic variables over different timescales)?
What is the direction and relative importance of system feedbacks?
Geographic Information
Region:
Bering Sea Data Collected and/or Produced
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