Abstract: Using direct current measurements made during the period 1975?81, we describe the general circulation over the southeastern Bering Sea and differentiate it by regimes related to depth and forcing mechanisms. Three regimes ...

Abstract: Drift buoys with shallow (17 m) drogues, released during May 1977 and tracked by satellite, delineated an eddy in the southeastern Bering Sea. Located above complex topography having a depth range of 200 to 3000 m, the ...

Abstract: Most of the water that eventually flows northward through Bering Strait originates about 500 km south, seaward of the shelfbreak in the Bering Sea. Cumulative observational evidence supports the idea that most of this ...