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Record 1 2020-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
  • Commercial Fishing
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Capelin(Mallotus villosus) is a small, short-lived pelagic schooling species with major populations occurring in the Northwest Atlantic, waters around Iceland, the Barents Sea, and Northern Pacific.

OBS

A fish of the family Osmeridae.

OBS

capelin: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
  • Pêche commerciale
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Le capelan (Mallotus villosus) est un petit poisson pélagique grégaire, à courte durée de vie, dont les principales populations se trouvent dans l'Atlantique NordOuest, les eaux environnant l'Islande, la mer de Barents et le Pacifique Nord.

OBS

Poisson de la famille des Osmeridae.

OBS

capelan : terme normalisé par l'OLF et le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Peces
  • Pesca comercial
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 2 2016-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • River and Sea Navigation
DEF

[A] shipping lane officially defined by Russian legislation from the Kara Sea to the Pacific Ocean specifically running along the Russian Arctic coast from Kara Gates strait between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Navigation fluviale et maritime
DEF

[Voie] maritime qui permet de relier l'océan Atlantique à l'océan Pacifique en longeant la côte nord de la Sibérie.

OBS

[Elle] emprunte le cap Nord, le détroit de Kara, le cap Tcheliouskine et aboutit au détroit de Béring, la plupart de son trajet s'effectuant dans les mers arctiques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Oceanography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A semi-closed sea adjacent to a continent and connected with the ocean at the water surface.

CONT

Marginal seas, which separate coastal zones from open oceans, often exist as large indentations into continental landmasses. ... The primary differences between marginal seas and open oceans are associated with depth and proximity to landmasses. Marginal seas, which are generally shallower than open oceans, are more influenced by human activities, river runoff, climate, and water circulation.

OBS

Some of the major marginal seas include the Arabian Sea, Baltic Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bering Sea, Beaufort Sea, Black Sea, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Ross Sea, Weddell Sea, and all four of the Siberian Seas(Barents, Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Océanographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Mer située entre le continent et un arc insulaire.

CONT

[...] entre l'arc et le continent, existe une «mer marginale» dont la croûte océanique est relativement récente : celle de la mer du Japon est d'âge éocène.

OBS

arc insulaire : alignement linéaire ou arqué d’îles volcaniques formées sur le fond marin à la limite de plaques convergentes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
  • Oceanografía
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Mar comunicado con el mar abierto situado sobre una masa continental sumergida, adyacente a un continente.

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Record 4 2007-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Part of the Arctic Ocean, north of Norway and Russia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Partie de l'océan Arctique, qui baigne les côtes de la Norvège et de la Russie.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
CONT

With regard to the Pacific side of the Arctic Basin, Overland et al.(1997) report that the position of the tropospheric cold pool is approximately centered over the Canadian Arctic and the Beaufort Sea, displaced from the North Pole by orographic effects of the North American mountain ranges. The result is advection of atmospheric heat and moisture into the Greenland and Barents seas, and the eastern Arctic. The position of this arctic cold pool in turn affects the position of the arctic front and the atmospheric circulation in the western Pacific.

CONT

There are at least three distinct types of cold pool: 1. Large (in areal extent), slow-moving vortices at latitudes poleward of roughly 50deg N & S. They are often over, or immediately downwind of the source regions of polar or arctic air masses, in such areas as the Canadian Arctic or Siberian Russia. They take up the characteristics of quasi-permanent features, often appearing on monthly, or even seasonal average maps. The column of very cold (dense) air associated with this version of the cold pool, is reinforced by net outgoing radiation which produces a highly stable, bitterly cold near-surface environment, with a surface ridge or anticyclone on MSLP charts. 2. Once cold air from the source region as detailed in (1.) above is caught up in the circulation of mid-latitude depressions, the characteristics of the air mass are altered ... 3. A pool of cold air can also become "detached" at lower latitudes ...

Key term(s)
  • arctic cold air pool
  • arctic cool air pool
  • arctic cool pool

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
CONT

En 1992, deux auteurs anglais, Price et Vaughan, publièrent une étude statistique des gouttes froides, en séparant 3 types : les gouttes froides de type arctique, de type polaire et de type subtropicale, en fonction du courant-jet au voisinage duquel eut lieu le détachement stratosphérique.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Law
  • Military Administration
CONT

... the US had a strategic stake in the Barents Sea, a region previously unmentioned in US Department of Defense Posture Statements.

Key term(s)
  • Department of Defence Posture Statement

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit militaire
  • Administration militaire

Spanish

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Record 7 1988-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
CONT

Earlier this week in neutral Sweden, [Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai] Ryzhov began expanding on the Murmansk initiative by offering to admit Nordic observers to Soviet naval exercises in the north this year and by including the Barents Sea in the area under discussion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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