Beaufort Sea Ice Motion Programme - Wintertime Hydrography
Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
| Principal Investigator: | Melling, Humfrey (16) |
| Licence Number: | 7026 |
| Organization: | Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1988
1987
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| Issued: | Jan. 01, 1987 |
| Project Team: | Syd Moorhouse; Ron A. Cooke; Robin A. Moore |
Objective(s): To obtain better understanding of the role which wintertime freezing over the Mackenzie shelf of the Beaufort Sea plays in maintaining the peculiar cold haocline of the Arctic Ocean. Measurements will also show light on the regional ice budget, and on the recycling of nutrients to the surface layer by the wintertime haline circulation. Field study involves the measurement of the temperature, salinity and selected chemical properties of seawater and ice over the shelf and adjacent waters in the southern Beaufort Sea.
