"Fortunately, in recent years a large number of pressure gage and current water observations have been made on the eastern Bering Sea Continental Shelf as part of the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program. ... Concurrent with the recent field work has been the development of several numerical models for tides in part or all of the Bering Sea. ... In a sense then, this chapter is a progress report as well as a review of past work and a description of new results."--Leaves 2-3.

" ... as soon as one has traversed the greater part of the wild sea, one comes upon such a huge quantity of ice that nowhere in the whole world has the like been known." "This ice is of a wonderful nature. It lies at times quite still, as one would expect, with openings or large fjords in it; but sometimes its movement is so strong and rapid as to equal that of a ship running before the wind, and it drifts against the wind as often as with it." Kongespeilet - 1250 A.D. ("The Mirror of Kings") Modern societies require increasing amounts influence on the water mass and on the resulting of scientific information about the environment total environment of the region; therefore, cer tain of its characteristics will necessarily be in whieh they live and work. For the seas this information must describe the air above the sea, included.