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total wind variance during winter was respectively 85% and 120% of its autumn value, but there was little difference between the two seasons in Shpanberg Strait and other eastern moorings. Total wind variance was substantially lower during spring at all sites. Given the relatively stable wind <strong>conditions</strong> in Shpanberg Strait, it is unlikely that the sharp drop in the vector mean current magnitude which occurred in the strait during winter to local wind forcing, although the change in wind direction made the wind more effective in countering the current. The wind at Bering Strait would appear to be more important, as in Aagaard et al. (1985). Bering Strait current fluctuations were better correlated to (and coherent with) current fluctuations in Shpanberg Strait than those in Anadyr Strait. Most of the cross-variance of the coherence spectra was at long periods. Fluctuations in the latter two straits were virtually uncorrelated except during spring. During that season, flow in Anadyr Strait was uncorrelated to currents in Bering Strait, but was correlated to flow at the station in the center of Shpanberg Strait. Flow in the region south of St. Lawrence Island was generally better correlated to flow in Shpanberg Strait than in Anadyr Strait Eastward fluctuations in the southern region were correlated to southward flow in Shpanberg Strait and to northward flow in Anadyr Strait. Current fluctuations in the southern region were correlated among themselves, although flow at 8403 nearest the shore in the bight of the island was highly correlated only to flow at 8404 just offshore from it. The currents in the straits were better correlated to wind on axes directed toward the south or southeast than to winds on the principal axes themselves. Currents in Shpanberg and Bering Straits were more coherent with the wind than were currents in Anadyr Strait. Most of the cross-variance of the coherences was at periods greater than 9 days. South of St. Lawrence Island, winds were less coherent with the wind than winds in Bering or Anadyr Strait. 7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This Technical Memorandum is a contribution to the Marine Services Project at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in support of the Navy-NOAA Joint Ice Center. This work has been carried out with support from National Science Foundation grant DPP-8409423 to Science Applications International Corporation (S.A.I.C) (R.D.M), Office of Naval Research (ONR) contract NOOOI4-82-C-0064 with S.A.I.c. (R.D.M.), and the Marine Services Research Division of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory supported in part by the Arctic program, ONR (lD.S. and S.S.). NOAA PMEL contribution 1004. 12
8. REFERENCES Aagaard, K., A.T. Roach, and J.D. Schumacher (1985): On the wind-driven variability of the flow through Bering Strait. J. Geophys. Res., 90(C4) 7213-7221. Coachman, L.K., K. Aagaard, and R.B. Tripp (1975): Bering Strait: the Regional Physical Oceanography. University ofWashington Press, 172 pp. Coachman, L.K. and K. Aagaard (1981): Reevaluation of Water Transpons in the Vicinity of Bering Strait. In The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Oceanography and Resources, Volume I, D.W. Hood and lA. Calder (OOs.), Government Printing Office (dist. by University of Washington Press, Seattle), 95-110. Kinder, T.H., D.C. Chapman, and J.A. Whitehead, Jr. (1986): Westward intensification of the mean circulation on the Bering Sea Shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 16,1217-1229. Macklin, S.A., RL. Brown, J. Gray, and RW. Lindsay (1984): METLffi II - A program library for calculating and plotting atmospheric and oceanic fields. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL PMEL-54, 53 pp. Mofjeld, H.O. (1986): Observed tides on the nonheastern Bering Sea Shelf. J. Geophys. Res., 91 (C2), 2593-2606. Overland, J.E. and A.T. Roach (1987): Northward flow in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. J. Geophys. Res., 92(C7) 7097-7105. Overland, J.E., R.A. Brown and C.D. Mobley (1980): METLIB - A Program Library for Calculating and Plotting Marine Boundary Layer Wind Fields. ,NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL PMEL-20, 82 pp. Pearson, C.A. (1981): Guide to R2D2 - Rapid Retrieval Data Display. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL PMEL-29, 148 pp. Pearson, C.A., H.O. Mofjeld, and RB. Tripp (1981): Tides of the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf. In The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Oceanography and Resources, Volume I, D.W. Hood and J.A. Calder (OOs.), Government Printing Office (dist. by University of Washington Press, Seattle), 111-130. Salo, S., J.D. Schumacher, and L.K. Coachman (1983): Winter currents on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL PMEL-45, 53 pp. Schumacher, J.D., K. Aagaard, C.H. Pease, and RB. Tripp (1983): Effects of a shelfpolynya on flow and water. properties in the northern Bering Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 88(C5), 2723-2732. 13
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