Broad-scale component of RUSALCA: Looking Ahead

Looking Ahead

workingworkingcirculation circulation scheme scheme

Looking Ahead

Bering Strait Bering Strait connection connection

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TS-diagram Herald Canyon 2009TS-diagram Herald Canyon 2009

Summer Water Atlantic Water

Melt Water

Remnant water water Winter water

Alaskan Coastal Wateror super-heated Anadyr Water?

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

Looking Ahead

East Siberian East Siberian Sea connection Sea connection

Looking Ahead

• Polynya water pathways

Looking Ahead

• Polynya water pathways

• Role of exchange through Long Strait

Looking Ahead

• Polynya water pathways

• Role of exchange through Long Strait

• Winter water formation in the ESS

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Eastern/western Eastern/western Chukchi Sea connection Chukchi Sea connection

Looking Ahead

• Eastward diversion of water on the shelf

Looking Ahead

• Eastward diversion of water on the shelf

• Continuity of shelfbreak jet

Looking Ahead

• Eastward diversion of water on the shelf

• Continuity of shelfbreak jet

• Origin/fate of Siberian Coastal Current

Looking Ahead

Shelf/Basin Shelf/Basin connection connection

Looking Ahead

Shelf/Basin Shelf/Basin connection connection

Looking Ahead

Temperature (color) Temperature (color) overlain by density (contours) overlain by density (contours)

Alongstream velocity (contours) Alongstream velocity (contours) X

Looking Ahead

Shelf/Basin Shelf/Basin connection connection

Atlantic Water

Pacific Water

Looking Ahead

2008 Swedish/Russian expedition 2008 Swedish/Russian expedition

Temperature (color) overlain by density (contours) Temperature (color) overlain by density (contours)

Broad-scale component of RUSALCA: Considerations for future sampling

Considerations for

future sampling

2004 + 2009 2004 + 2009 Surveys Surveys

Considerations for

future sampling

Considerations for

future sampling

Considerations for

future sampling

Considerations for

future sampling

Considerations for

future sampling

Considerations for

2012 sampling

Considerations for

2012 sampling

Considerations for

2012 sampling

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