FY 1980

Physical environment of the eastern Bering Sea, March 1979

Salo, S.A., C.H. Pease, and R.W. Lindsay

NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL PMEL-21, NTIS: PB81-148496, 119 pp (1980)

This report includes two analyses of data collected by the NOAA ship Surveyor in the southeastern Bering Sea during March, 1979. The first section presents CTD's and data on sea surface temperature and salinity and on surface winds and air temperature. The data indicate that ice was advected south to the ice edge by northerly winds, and that net melting occurred at the ice edge. The second section describes two cases when cold continental air moved from the ice over the water at the edge. An estimate is made of the resulting surface heat flux.