Figure 1. Map of the northern Bering Sea. Shown are positions of two moored current meters (black squares); F3 south of St. Lawrence Island (SLI) and A3 located just north of Bering Strait. Also shown is the drift track (from 1 September 2002 to 28 February 2003) of a holey-sock drifter deployed north of Nunivak Island (NI). Numbers 1 to 3 show three identified stages of particular interest discussed in the text. Gray dots show NCEP grid points used for meteorological forcing. Bathymetry is from ETOPO5.
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