The Best Laid Schemes: A Nares Strait Adventure
In 2002, oceanographers began a study of Arctic freshwater export via Nares Strait (Münchow et al., 2006). This 550 km channel separating Greenland from Canada is possibly the longest narrow waterway on Earth. Surrounding ice-capped terrain rises above 2000 m. We used the US icebreaker Healy to inst...
Main Author: | Humfrey Melling |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Oceanography Society
2011-09-01
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Series: | Oceanography |
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Online Access: | http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/24-3_melling.pdf |
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