Knut Aagaard, Ph.D. (Univ. of Washington), Professor. aagaard@apl.washington.edu. High-latitude circulation; thermohaline and convective processes, particularly those associated with sea ice; the role of high-latitude ocean in climate; and circulation in lakes. Principal Oceanographer at the Applied Physics Laboratory and Senior Fellow of the Joint Institute for Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO).
Aagaard, K. (submitted) Meltwater injection in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research.
Morison, J., K. Aagaard and M. Steele (submitted) Recent changes in the Arctic: A review. Arctic.
Cooper, L.W., T. Beasley, K. Aagaard, et al. (submitted) Distributions of nuclear fuel-reprocessing tracers in the Arctic Ocean: Indications of Russian river influence. Journal of Marine Research.
Carmack, E.C., R.J. Matear, R.G. Perkin, F.A. McLaughlin, R.W. Macdonald, K. Aagaard and A.J. Wüest (submitted) Evidence for geothermal heating, double diffusion, and silicate regeneration in the isolated deep waters of the southern Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research.
Carmack, E.C., K. Aagaard, et al. (1998) Thermohaline transitions. In Imberger, J. (ed.) Physical Processes in Lakes and Oceans: 179-186. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
Weingartner, T.J., D.J. Cavalieri, K. Aagaard and Y. Sasaki (1998) Circulation, dense water formation, and outflow on the northeast Chukchi shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 7647-7661.
Beasley, T., L.W. Cooper, J. Grebmeier, K. Aagaard, et al. (1998) 237Np/129I atom ratios in the Arctic Ocean: Has 237Np from western European and Russian fuel reprocessing facilities entered the Arctic Ocean? Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 39: 255-277.
Carmack, E.C., K. Aagaard, et al. (1997) Changes in temperature and contaminant distributions within the Arctic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II 44: 1487-1502.
Swift, J.H., E.P. Jones, K. Aagaard, et al. (1997) Waters of the Makarov and Canada basins. Deep-Sea Research II 44: 1503-1529.
Walsh, J.J., D.A. Dieterle, F.E. Muller-Karger, K. Aagaard, et al. (1997) CO2 cycling in the coastal ocean. II. Seasonal organic loading of the Arctic Ocean from source waters in the Bering Sea. Continental Shelf Research 17: 1-36.