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The Alaskan Beaufort Sea : ecosystems and environments
- Title
- The Alaskan Beaufort Sea : ecosystems and environments / edited by Peter W. Barnes, Donald M. Schell, Erk Reimnitz.
- Publication
- Orlando : Academic Press, 1984.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GC413 .A4 1984 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 466 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Collection of 21 papers focusing on the Alaska Beaufort Shelf environment written after the culmination of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program. Four sections: introduction to the Beaufort Sea; the physical environment including meteorology, oceanography, offshore permafrost, sea ice, and geology; marine biology and ecology; and the potential impact of an offshore oil well blowout.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- The Beaufort Sea : background, history, and perspective / David Norton and Gunter Weller -- Mesoscale wind phenomena along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast / Thomas L. Kozo -- The Beaufort undercurrent / Knut Aagaard -- Observations and analyses of sediment-laden sea ice / Thomas E. Osterkamp and Joan P. Gosink -- Beaufort Sea ice motions / Robert S. Pritchard -- Structure of first-year pressure ridge sails in the Prudhoe Bay Region / Walter B. Tucker III, Devinder S. Sodhi, and John W. Govoni -- Fast ice sheet deformation during ice-push and shore ice ride-up / Lewis H. Shapiro [and others] -- Pack ice interaction with Stamukhi Shoal, Beaufort sea, Alaska / Erk Reimnitz and E.W. Kempema -- Ice gouging characteristics and processes / Peter W. Barnes, Douglas M. Rearic, and Erk Reimnitz -- Some probabilistic aspects of ice gouging on the Alaska Shelf of the Beaufort Sea / W.F. Weeks [and others] -- Determining distribution patterns of ice-bonded permafrost in the U.S. Beaufort Sea from seismic data / K. Gerard Neave and Paul V. Sellmann -- Acoustic velocities of nearshore materials in the Alaskan Beaufort and Chukchi Seas / John L. Morack and James C. Rogers -- Sediment characteristics of the lagoons of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast and evolution of Simpson Lagoon / A. Sathy Naidu [and others] -- Phytoplankton abundance, chlorophyll a, and primary productivity in the Western Beaufort Sea / Rita Horner -- An annual carbon budget for an Arctic kelp community / Kenneth H. Dunton -- Bacterial populations of the Beaufort Sea / Ronald M. Atlas and Robert P. Griffiths -- Trophic dynamics in an Arctic lagoon / Peter C. Craig [and others] -- Trophic relationships of vertebrate consumers in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea / Kathryn J. Frost and Lloyd F. Lowry -- Ecology of shorebirds in the Alaskan Beaufort littoral zone / Peter G. Connors -- The pelagic and nearshore birds of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea : biomass and trophics / George J. Divoky -- Interaction of oil and Arctic sea ice / Donald R. Thomas.
- ISBN
- 0120790300
- 9780120790302
- LCCN
- 84048447
- OCLC
- ocm11045384
- 11045384
- SCSB-8859929
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library