Impact of Wind-Driven Mixing in the Arctic Ocean

l a r Y e a r ( 2 0 0 7 -2 0 0 9) impact of Wind-Driven Mixing in the arctic Ocean Vertical Microstructure profiler being deployed from the icebreaker Oden near the North pole during the Beringia 2005 expedition (rainville and Winsor, 2008). From similar instruments and more indirect methods, very weak mixing rates are inferred across the entire arctic Ocean, although this might change as very large areas of the arctic Ocean become ice-free for a significant fraction of the year. Photo by P. Winsor