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The Late Quaternary Flow Through The Bering Strait Has Been Forced By The Southern Ocean Winds, Joseph D. Ortiz, Doron Nof, Leonid Polyak, Guillame St-Onge, Agatha Lisé-Pronovost, Sathy Naidu, Dennis Darby, Stefanie Brachfeld

Stefanie Brachfeld

Because North and South America are surrounded by water, they constitute together a gigantic island whose peripheral sea level is controlled by the winds east of the island, winds along the western boundary of the island, the freshwater flux, and the meridional overturning cell. This idea has been expressed in several articles where a series of analytical models show that the Bering Strait (BS) flow is controlled by the interplay of the Southern Winds (sometimes referred to as the “Subantarctic Westerlies”), and the North Hemisphere freshwater flux. Here, the authors report a paleoceanographic analysis of proxies in the BS as …