Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem.
However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste …

[2] The World Meteorological Organization [1970] defines a polynya as ''any non-linear
shaped opening enclosed in (sea) ice... Sometimes the polynya is limited on one side by the …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Mooring and shipboard data collected between 1992 and 1995 delineate the circulation
over the north central Chukchi shelf. Previous studies indicated that Pacific waters crossed …

Interactions between the Southern Ocean and the Weddell Sea ice shelves are important
both to the Antarctic Ice Sheet and to the production of globally significant water masses …

Polynyas are nonlinear‐shaped openings within the ice cover, ranging in size from 10 to
105 km2. Polynyas play an important climatic role. First, winter polynyas tend to warm the …

We investigated circulation and water mass modification processes in the Chukchi Sea
using (1) temperature, salinity, and velocity data collected between September 1991 and …

Dense water overflow off continental shelves (cascading) is one of the contributing
processes of shelf-deep ocean exchange, and of topical interest to climate studies and …

Physical and dynamic properties of marine microplastic (MP) particles are summarized, with
relevance to their behavior in the coastal zone. The density range, size classes, and typical …

The dynamics of the flow of dense water through Barrow Canyon is investigated using data
from a hydrographic survey in summer 2002. The focus is on the winter-transformed Bering …