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Shelf-Break Exchange in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas

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The Bering and Chukchi/Beaufort shelf-breaks form the beginning and end of the dramatic sea-level and wind-forced flow of Pacific Ocean water across the Bering and Chukchi continental shelves between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Recent model results suggest that the on-shelf flow in the Bering is distributed along the shelf-break, wind-dependant, focused by Zhemchug and Bering canyons and modified by shelf-break eddies. Similarly, the off-shelf flow in the Chukchi/Beaufort is mediated by canyons, shelf-break jets, eddies, and wind forcing. In the Chukchi, flow is channeled through Barrow and Herald canyons to the shelf-break, where across-slope flow in Ekman boundary layers and instabilities result in the exchange of water and properties across the slope. In addition, dense shelf-water, created from brine rejection during ice formation in coastal polynyas, has been observed to flow downslope through Barrow Canyon. Along the Beaufort shelf, the shelf-break current is unstable, shedding eddies that populate the deep Beaufort basin. Upwelling favorable winds in summer have been observed to modify the structure of the shelf-break current and drive exchange across the Chukchi and Beaufort slopes. Most of our understanding of shelf-break flow in Bering and Chukchi Seas is based on numerical model results and broad-scale observations. There is thus a need for more detailed shelf-break observational programs.

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Support for W. Williams was provided by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. E. Shroyer was supported as a WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar through the WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute. Funding support for contributions by J. Clement Kinney and W. Maslowski was provided by multiple grants from the Climate Change Prediction Program of the Department of Energy, the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Naval Research. Funding for M. Itoh was provided by Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. We thank Robert Pickart and Albert Plueddemann and Seth Danielson for insightful discussions regarding circulation in the Chukchi-Beaufort region. We also thank the editors of this book and two anonymous reviewers for insightful comments, which improved an earlier version of this manuscript.

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    Jaclyn Clement Kinney & Wieslaw Maslowski

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Williams, W.J., Shroyer, E., Clement Kinney, J., Itoh, M., Maslowski, W. (2014). Shelf-Break Exchange in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. In: Grebmeier, J., Maslowski, W. (eds) The Pacific Arctic Region. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8863-2_6

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